Turning Inward to Move Through Your Stuck Places
We’ve talked about pattern interrupts before. It’s a tool we use in NLP to get out of neural ruts, to break out of those processes that we run automatically that aren’t serving us. A pattern interrupt is a powerful tool for retraining your unconscious mind.
In these days of hunkering at home while we wait out this virus, the universe has basically given us a big ‘ol pattern interrupt! (See my optimistic side coming out here?) Many of us have noticed some less-than-desirable things that, in our normal day-to-day routine, we were blinded to.
Hello, opportunity!
You may be seeing areas in your life where you seem to be stuck. They might be unhealthy habits or thought patterns or just that sense that you know something valuable is missing. You’re seeing, perhaps more than ever, that you’re not living your best life.
How do you know if you’re stuck? Check your….
- EMOTIONS. Are you feeling good? Where is your focus? Does what you’re focusing on feel good?
- BELIEFS. Identify beliefs that don’t serve you. Remember, you are living the essence of your beliefs.
- STRATEGIES. Become aware of how the strategies you’re running (beliefs, patterns, etc.) are dictating your results.
If you are feeling stuck, don’t despair, friend!
Now is the time to look inward and to tap into your Superconscious Mind. The Superconscious Mind is also known as your higher self, or your soul. Tap into the part of yourself that holds all your wishes, desires, all the things that you want to achieve. It’s in there. It’s part of you. And it communicates with your unconscious mind.
I know what you’re thinking. But, Brenda, if my higher self is in touch with my unconscious mind, why are those good things not my life experience right now?
Remember, the unconscious mind is at the mercy of your conscious programming. That’s why we use the conscious mind to reprogram the unconscious mind. It’s not hard. It just takes some time and repetition.
Back to turning inward…
To help you tap into the Superconscious Mind, I have an exercise for you. You could do this exercise focusing on your life as a whole or just around a single area where you feel stuck.
- Write a list of the things you want in life, including work, your relationships, experiences...
- Now, using the power of your unconscious mind (which is responsible for involuntary movements), rapidly rank your list.
- Rewrite your list in the order of importance.
- Become aware that you are in tune with your unconscious mind by recalling your childhood address or your first-grade teacher’s name -- something that you know lives in the unconscious part of the brain
- Instruct your conscious mind that your want to open communication with Superconscious Mind.
- Write, stream-of-conscious style, answering the question, “What is my purpose?” (or it could be a question related to your work/business or something else). Keep writing until you feel empty.
- Then write, answering the question, “What will living this purpose do for me?” Write until there’s nothing left.
- Then write, answering the question, “What will me living this purpose do for others?” Write until there’s nothing left.
- Then write, answering the question, “How will living this purpose make me feel?” Write until there’s nothing left.
- Put your list away for a while.
- When you come back to it, see if you can identify anything that you can take action on now. Focus especially on the how-I-would-feel part. Do something that makes you feel that way.
Tapping into your higher self is a powerful tool for getting unstuck and moving in the direction you want to go. There is power there. And it’s always with you. You just need to become aware of it.
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- Rupert Sheldrake’s banned TEDTalk
- Episode 15 -- a resource for identifying negative emotions
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