Womens InterestsIn Need of Psychological Plumbing - I'm Blocked!
How often do you feel like you’re doing everything you can in a particular area of your life and yet you don’t seem to have any ‘wins’? You feel like knocking your head against a wall don’t you? I know I do! Even if you’re the kind of person who is committed to constant personal growth and change, those days come. Sometimes I feel like I know so much about something there can’t possibly be a reason for not achieving exactly what I want... and yet I don’t... it’s inconceivable! I’ve found myself yelling, crying, punching, getting depressed and watching TV and sometimes even lashing out at the spiritual world because of the senselessness of it all!
What’s the block? What causes the flow of energy to literally block up? Well... let me see if I can shed some light. I’m a big believer in alignment within oneself. I believe that a part of our journey here is to find that sense of peace that comes with aligning the body, mind and soul and it’s an ongoing journey that doesn’t seem to have it’s destination in one singular lifetime. Sometimes our blockages are unconscious which puts us out of alignment because we’re not able to see them so clearly, short of getting yourself a coach (which I can HIGHLY recommend), let me share with you one of my favorite self coaching tools – the power of an open ended question. Whenever I’m having these moments of questioning and frustration that’s when I sit down with my journal and get very honest with myself. I begin to explore my thoughts on whatever the topic of my frustration is and I get very confronting with myself about what I’m believing, what I’m telling myself and then I ask the big one: “Am I really doing EVERYTHING I can or can I do more, can I do something different?”. Inevitably the answer is no, I’m not doing EVERYTHING I can and, yes I can do more. By asking myself the right question, my unconscious mind goes searching for the answers I need.
For example, just this week I was wondering why my phone wasn’t running hot with new business and I started getting down on myself, I started pushing blame outward until I woke up to my pointless behavior and decided to look for a solution instead. I picked up my journal and simply wrote this question: “What more can I do, specifically, to generate new business?” and the pen started flowing. I made a list of six things I knew I should be doing but hadn’t for some time, I’d simply gotten sidetracked, they’d dropped off my radar. They were simple things that I put back into my schedule immediately. I guess it’s a little bit of a self-generated wake up call. I think these are the best kind because if you don’t do it... believe me the Universe will find a way to do it for you and usually it’s not as gentle as you are on yourself. Step up and live consciously.