What you call “the present moment” is often nothing more than old patterns repeating - through the body you inhabit, the inner dialogue you cannot silence, and the emotional tones that silently frame your perception.
Every moment is 𝘧𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥. Not a raw given, but constructed:
1. 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: breath and physiology. A tense chest, shallow breath, contracted muscles—already shaping perception.
2. 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: the inner dialogue rehearsing judgments and stories about who you are and what is possible.
3. 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: the emotional coloring - pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - framing experience before thought arises.
Neuroscience confirms this. The brain is not a camera but a 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞. Perception is filtered through memory. The nervous system locks you into loops of stress or safety. The default mode network spins identity stories. Limbic circuits tint reality with threat or promise before you are even aware of it.
This has consequences: if you remain unaware, you are not truly leading. You are recycling fears and habits of the past into today’s decisions. You may speak of transformation, agility, or innovation - but act from repetition, fear, and blind spots.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
- 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 shifts the body from reactivity to coherence.
- 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 weakens its grip.
- 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 opens space before reaction.
Awareness does not stop fabrication - it makes it conscious. And here, neuroscience aligns with ancient insight: every moment of awareness rewires the brain, reshapes the nervous system, and redefines what is possible.
This is the foundation of my coaching. Not surface-level behavior change, but radical clarity: seeing - sometimes painfully - how you fabricate your present reality. Only then can you step beyond repetition and embody a new way of being.
So ask yourself:
- If your leadership is mostly the past replaying itself, how can you expect to create a genuinely new future?
- What becomes possible when you stop being lived by conditioning and begin to fabricate consciously - breath by breath, word by word, perception by perception?