Becoming responsible primarily means beginning to take ownership of your life, your thoughts, emotions, and actions. It is the awareness that your inner world is not something shaped by external circumstances, but something you create yourself. Responsibility is not something imposed by others, but something you choose when you consciously decide to take the reins of your life into your own hands.
You become responsible when you start recognizing your patterns and see how your behavior affects both yourself and your environment. We often run from responsibility because we are afraid to look within and admit where we are weak or making mistakes. But it is precisely this awareness—that mistakes are not a sign of weakness but an opportunity for learning and growth—that forms the foundation of responsibility. When you stop avoiding your weaknesses and accept that you are, to some degree, the creator of your problems, you also gain the power to start solving them.
Responsibility is connected to the awareness that you always have a choice. You choose how to react to difficult situations, how to respond to challenges, and how to approach problem-solving. Instead of blaming others or looking for external reasons for your troubles, you begin to realize that you are the one who can change something. Once you accept this, a space for real change opens up—not only in your relationship with yourself but also with others.
The essence of responsibility lies in no longer hiding from reality and accepting that you have the power to influence your life. This doesn’t mean you will always act perfectly or never fall, but that you will know how to get back up, reflect on your experiences, and learn from them. That is the power of responsibility—it gradually frees you from the feeling of powerlessness and helps you see that you can influence how you live and what you create from your experiences. The more you are able to feel the truth within yourself and, due to higher emotional maturity, take responsibility for increasing the influence of that truth on your consciousness and change your decisions and actions, the more likely it is that you will be justifiably proud of your actions.
As you become responsible, you also start to become aware of the impact you have on others. The more aware you are of your actions and emotions, the more you can create healthy and harmonious relationships. Greater self-awareness, as a result of reduced SMA, allows a stronger influence of conscience and fairness on the functioning of consciousness. Greater bodily awareness, especially of the abdominal cavity, helps us distinguish between responsibility and sensitivity. Many people have performed their duties responsibly and thereby created dictatorships where enormous harm was done. They fulfilled their jobs and obligations and were “responsible”—but they did not feel inside themselves that what they were doing was wrong, unjust, inhumane, and immoral.
Our moral compass lies in the body, not in the head. And this is where AEQ has the greatest influence on the development of responsibility. The responsibility you first cultivate toward yourself then naturally extends to your relationships with others, even if it means they will disagree with you. This is the real power and depth of responsibility—when you understand that everything that happens in your life is an opportunity for learning, growth, and change, not something that defines or limits you.
And this kind of responsibility yields the best fruit of all: trust.
