What is “Subversive Awareness”?

…What if we were able to begin noticing, becoming more intimately aware of our physical and emotional experiences of desire and aversion? What could happen if instead of blindly acting out of automatic desire or aversion, we could actually notice these instinctual, automatic reactions happening inside our bodies and minds, and make conscious, intentional, and personally meaningful decisions about our actions based less on these inborn, animal instincts, and more on our core values and a sense of the type of person we want to be in the world? Would it not, in a sense, “undermine the power and authority” that these instinctual drives typically exert upon us? (subvert, Oxford Languages).