{"id":130,"date":"2022-12-01T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:18:21","slug":"pause-reflect-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"5 Practices:  Pause-Reflect-Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State of body\/mind determines performance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-428 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5practices4-e1670264317703-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5practices4-e1670264317703-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5practices4-e1670264317703-416x300.png 416w, https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/5practices4-e1670264317703.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Pause-Reflect-Choose is about <strong>managing my energy (physical, emotional, psychic, brain) to achieve optimal relationship-results.<\/strong> \u00a0When we PA&#8211; USE (and breathe deeply), we slow and calm energy\/brain activity. (Try it now; breathe deep &amp; slow.\u00a0 What happens in your body?\u00a0 Your mind?)\u00a0 The PA&#8211; USE <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">presents OPPORTUNITY<\/span> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">expand AWARENESS and consciousness<\/span>, so that we \u201csee\u201d the situation in its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">many<\/span> aspects\u00a0 &#8211;not just our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reactive<\/span> view.\u00a0 As we see more POSSIBILITIES for response, we REFLECT on <strong><em>intent<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 What is it I want\/need from this situation?\u00a0 What possibilities <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">align<\/span> with my intent?\u00a0 We give ourselves the gift of CHOICE to adopt the attitude, behavior, action (body signals \/tone\/words) to match intent.\u00a0 Pause-Reflect-Choose enables integration of body\/mind\/heart so that we move in the world with AUTHENTICITY, projecting our energy in the way that optimizes relationship-results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of body\/mind determines performance. Pause-Reflect-Choose is about managing my energy (physical, emotional, psychic, brain) to achieve optimal relationship-results. \u00a0When we PA&#8211; USE (and breathe deeply), we slow and calm energy\/brain activity. (Try it now; breathe deep &amp; slow.\u00a0 What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horseplayhp2-toolkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsaldrichassociates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}