As you integrate the teachings of the law of attraction more deeply into your life, all these wonderful changes in your energy can throw you for a loop. This might not be something we expect to happen, which further disorients us, but it’s totally normal. Here are some thoughts on how to deal with all that…enjoy.
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Podcast #70: Law of Attraction: Acclimating to Your New Energies
Our minds are testing the boundaries of this “new plane of being” so to speak. If we fight and struggle, our minds will push back to asset their control, but if you let them sniff around and “mark their territory” a little, then we can integrate our feelings and our thoughts together a little more. Our minds are kind of like puppies or toddlers. They respond well to positive reinforcement and conditioning….we are doing our best to reprogram them
Thanks so much for your insights. The way you explained it is absolutely perfect. I agree it is good to view our mind in that way–it can soften our resistance to it for sure.
There is a sense of guilt with doing what feels good and stepping back from a full load. For example, I’ve recently decreased the amount of time each day I work on music each day by a small amount. Eventually I’ll spend more time working on it, but with my current situation and skill level, this decrease in time feels like relief. Some people would say this is a bad idea and that I’m not working hard enough, but I was taking on too much for myself right now and felt constantly stressed because there was too much to do. I had taken on this schedule from an expert’s advice that I read, but I feel like it’s been too big a jump for me. I’m afraid that I could be making a big mistake with all of this though. How can I possibly be right when experts say differently? I feel more freed up and flexible, less stressed out, but worried that I’m not putting in enough work, even though I still am keeping a regular schedule and taking daily steps towards my goals. In my experience though, baby steps and developing new habits incrementally is much more sustainable, leads to steadier growth, and feels much better than constantly pushing yourself!
The timing of this podcast couldn’t be more perfect! I got three new ideas last night about new directions I could move in; two for my crochet business and one about traveling. I was really excited as I wrote these ideas in my journal. A little later, however, I started feeling a feeling that I’ve always felt in the past when I began to move outside my comfort zone – a feeling that says, “Who do you think you are? You can’t do this!”
In the past, I would have listened to it and gotten stopped in my tracks from moving forward. But now that I have been practicing mindfulness and doing a lot of energy psychology work, I can dis-identify from the feeling. It’s not me; it’s an energy pattern from the past that I’m ready to let go of. I don’t have to be perfect; I can make mistakes as I pursue these new goals. All I need to do is take the first step, and each new step will be revealed to me as I move forward. And yes, I have a lot more trust that the universe does, in fact, have my back.
Thanks for the confirmation!
Funny story… I hate change. Like, hate it so much. In the past, every time there was a huge change in my job (new manager usually), I’d groan and roll my eyes and complain constantly. I am experiencing new change within my current job and I keep rolling my eyes and groaning because change means more work and harder work and how do they expect me to fit *this* into my already 10 hour days?! Which is why I am really surprised that I am completely wanting a huge change in my life. I want to quit my job, move away, find a new house, make new friends, everything new. Because of this, I now feel “stuck” where I am. Like I can’t move forward because of discomfort, but I’m also chafing where I’m currently at. So how can I let go of this current pattern? Whenever I’ve encountered anything difficult before, I just run away, and currently I have been completely retreating into watching TV and vegging out all day when not at my job because I need to “decompress”, but I don’t want to keep doing this. I am so bored. I am kind of desperate for a change, but because I have constantly rejected change, I am not getting any. Uggghhhh, rant rant rant.
MJ, you said that you have always run away in the past, but that you also want to move away and change everything, which is, in a way, running away. I would consider it “running away” mentally to escape/veg out as you mentioned. Its perfectly okay to decompress, totally necessary after 10 hour days of BS grunt work! But try to take even a mere 5 minutes to your self before diving into TV watching and explore whats going on inside your feelings. Where does your mind wander to and what feelings arise that you may be trying to push away…even if it is annoyance towards work or your current situation? Just be with that feeling, it will likely dissipate or your mind will distract you somehow, and then move on, turn the TV on or what have you and veg out. 🙂
Hi Emjay
Wanting the change isn’t crazy–you just haven’t liked the change you are experiencing thus far. When we feel like we want to change a lot of things that sense of overwhelm and stuckness is common. And that is largely due to our orientation towards fixing everything with ‘action.’ When it feels like we can’t take the actions we want or we don’t know what actions to take, we feel like nothing can change and we worry we’ll be stuck in our current circumstances forever. I know the advice to ‘go within’ can be frustrating–again because we just want to ‘do’ something to fix it all–but when we understand it’s the energy that creates, we see why it makes sense to start there. It can also provide a sense of relief when we don’t know what to do or when we feel like there are actions to take but that they are not feasible right in this immediate moment. Give some thought to what you would want your life to look like–while specifics are okay, focusing more on energies that are ideal can be a bit better because that will give you clarity on what you are truly after.