Reaction VS Response

How creating space within yourself can allow you to respond, not react.

Responsibility = an ability to respond

Reaction = re - again + an ability to act // repeating the action

What does it mean in healing in my perspective when I hear people say things like 'to create space within yourself'?

It means when you can let go off what is holding you back to prepare yourself to let something else in.

So you are spacious.

You are open.

You are free of the old and ready for the new.

So you have those seconds to notice yourself making immediate re-actions.

So you have those seconds to witness yourself making a decision to make a change.

To respond, rather than to react.

When your cup is full it is not easy to fill it with anything else new.

First powerful step to make a change is to give yourself 'room'.

Space.

Mental and physical.

So you can intentional respond, not react.

So you can cope and be free.