LEXICON

Internal Awareness

Paying attention to what happens in your body, mind, and spirit as an ILR practitioner.

Many of your embodied responses as an ILR practitioner happen below the level of conscious thought.

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You don’t consciously feel fear about speaking your language in public, but your heart rate rises when you are called upon to do so.
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You don’t consciously feel defensive, but when somebody says something critical about an ILR program like yours, your body tenses.
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You don’t consciously feel angry, but when somebody expresses a different way of doing ILR, you launch into an argument about why that doesn’t work.

Embodied responses are habitual and conditioned.

Our responses follow established pathways that come from individual and collective experience.

Responses that look, sound, or feel “rational” or “logical” aren’t necessarily.

You can create a cohesive argument that masks the subconscious emotions that guide it.

Your mind can refuse to acknowledge realities that feel threatening. Emotions, not thinking, guides our behavior.

Your level of internal awareness has a direct relationship to your capacity to exercise agency over your ILR practice.

Internal awareness is a skill that develops with reflective practice.

Exercising agency over your ILR practice requires observing your embodied responses so you can change them.

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    Reflection
    Intentional contemplation of your embodied responses.
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REFLECTION

What subconscious responses are you having in your ILR practice?

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