I hear people say they feel blocked. Stuck. Frozen in resistance.
They want to act, but they can’t.
A man in our LSBC graduate community wants to create his art, but every time he sits down to do it he feels a barrier of resistance.
A woman in the new cohort of The Little School of Big Change says that when it comes to healthy eating or working out, she feels “a heavy, unprocessed wall of energy that sabotages” her.
What is that?
Here’s how it looks to me.
That “barrier” is a habitual thought/feeling reaction, like a reflex, that arises to “protect” you from what your mind sees as potential failure.
Makes sense, right? Your mind is always trying to protect you. It’s no coincidence that this wall of resistance arises when you’re moving toward something you want, but that your mind says you might not get.
But here’s the fascinating thing about that brick wall—it’s a thought.
It’s more like air, more like a cloud, than like anything solid or real. If you were to lean right into it, you’d find yourself coming right out the other side.
It has no actual power to stop anything, the best bitcoin mixer in 2022 but we think it does, because it feels like it does. It feels emotional and physical and gets our attention, so it seems strong and powerful.
But it isn’t.
What if you knew that feeling would come along when it’s time to do your art or your workout or your taxes or make that dentist appointment, but you also knew it was just a powerless tagalong?
It’s just some energy that accompanies those tasks.If you knew that energy couldn’t actually stop you, you simply stopped in the face of it in the past because you believed it could stop you, I wonder what you’d do?
