Law of Attraction: My Mind is Fighting All the Changes I Want to Make

I’ve recently come to terms with certain changes I want to make. But my brain doesn’t like it. How can I move forward if everything my mind is telling me is pushing me to stop.

Love this question because it allows me to talk all about the root of all our problems when it comes to energetic transformation–our lovely mind. 

Start figuring out what’s there, start ‘unlearning’ all it has ‘taught’ you, and all that positive emotion you are probably trying so hard to cultivate will just naturally appear. 

All those beliefs you are trying so hard to change just fade away. 

And with this ‘shedding’ of all the shit, you will start manifesting all sorts of evidence that all those warm, fuzzy, feel-good beliefs are true, which makes it much easier to adopt them as our own. We have that all-powerful ‘evidence’ –our own experience.

All that personal growth ‘work’ you are doing that you probably don’t enjoy all that much is not really necessary anymore since its main purpose was to help us deal with the ‘symptoms’ of this dysfunction. And if you do continue to do this or that thing, it will be with a very different energy, with a very different motivation and you will probably find it ‘works’ better for you than it had previously. 

 The mind serves us well in so many ways but not so much when it comes to conscious creation, changing our vibe, adopting perspectives and beliefs that will serve us quite nicely in all areas of life, making positive change, emotional healing and what have you. It has no place in this world. But it is constantly trying to dominate this work, which does nothing more than sabotage our efforts big time, slow us down and make things so much harder than they have to be. 

This work of energetic transformation, of positive change, isn’t inherently hard. We kind of make it so because we have so much crappy conditioning. We have a hard time breaking away from the mind, who doesn’t want us to make all these changes, who has a problem with pretty much every belief that can make you feel better, any change that will improve your life.

Why is it so messed up you may wonder? Excellent question but no clue. Why oh why does it torture us so? Your guess is as good as mine. Why in the hell would it fight changes that would make it so much easier, nay GUARANTEE , we get all the stuff it wants so badly, that it feels so miserable without? No freaking idea. 

While there may be some satisfaction to understanding this, to getting a definitive answer to these questions, knowing this wouldn’t necessarily make it easier to deal with it. In fact,it would probably make no difference at all. So don’t think that is holding you back.

It just is what it is, and our job is to not  let it keep getting in the way of our inner work, to not keep letting it rule our choices, habits, behaviors and actions, to not let it keep sabotaging us. 

Your Happiness Is a Threat

Being a happy, mentally healthy, emotionally well-adjusted person is a huge threat to your mind or ego, whichever term you use. How could it not be? It is the exact opposite of all these things. 

If you were to actually be that way, there is no way in hell you would continue to let it rule you the way it does now. In that ‘cleaner’ energetic and emotional state, you will finally see–like REALLY see, not just intellectually understand–how screwed up it is. It doesn’t want you to ever see this. 

And just  as you would probably not be so keen on following the advice of someone who is a big, hot mess, you would see the insanity of listening to this part of yourself.

When all you want to be is ‘happy’ the idea of continuing to listen to the mind, who wants the exact opposite for you, gets easier and easier over time. You see how continuing to do so will ensure you NEVER reach this goal. 

You see how doing things its way, holding onto the beliefs it wants you to hold onto, will make it very hard to manifest the various things you want to manifest, from money to love to a better job to a healthier body. 

How Is the Unwanted Serving You?

There is a ‘payoff’ to everything we do or else we wouldn’t do it. This can be hard to grasp since on a conscious level, we may not be aware of this payoff. On this level, we are very unhappy with our circumstances, we very much want them to change. 

So our typical response to this idea is one of indignation–we are offended, insulted. How dare you suggest I want to be unhappy! How dare you suggest I prefer being sick, lonely, poor, overweight or whatever else. And then we just shut it down without any real exploration.

And as a result, the  part of us that actually sees some sort of benefit in our circumstances now continues to dominate and nothing changes. We fight against all the beliefs that would help us change things, we resist all the changes that would benefit us, we don’t do any of the things we know we need to do if we really want things to be different. 

If you are knowingly not doing things you know would help you, if you are continuing to fight for beliefs and perspectives you know aren’t helping you, you must explore this. 

The new is scary even if it seems like something we really want. 

All the ‘good’ things we want may come with things we don’t.

 If you believe earning a lot of money will be hard, then you won’t want to find yourself in that position. If you worry you’ll become a walking ATM for less financially stable family members or people won’t like you as much if you are successful, you’ll shoo that money away at every turn. 

If you think finding a relationship would make compromise necessary in other areas of your life that are very important to you, you may not be so gung-ho about meeting ‘the one.’

If you try to make a change and ‘fail’ then it’s all on you and you don’t want to find out you’re not smart enough, good enough or capable enough. As long as you never try, you’ll never have to face that potential painful truth, which actually wouldn’t be true, but your mind would think it so. 

We may not feel great, we may not love things as they are now, but we are used to feeling this way, we are used to the struggle, the problems, the unwanted. 

Your Mind’s Most Dangerous Excuse

Lots of positive changes we have to make are hard. Lots of the shifts in thinking and feeling we need to make are hard. 

We have to get off auto-pilot and develop greater awareness of how we are responding to life, how we are focusing our attention, what we believe. We have to clean up the ‘filter’ through which we are seeing the world, seeing ourselves, seeing the challenges we face. 

We have a lot of conditioning working against us. Again, inherently it’s not hard, we make it so. Again, just is what it is. Accepting it can be hard actually makes it way less hard interestingly enough! Because a shit ton of our resistance comes from thinking it is hard and wishing it wasn’t. Anytime we fight against the reality of ‘what is’ we suffer. 

The problem is our mind thinks something being too hard or uncomfortable to do is a VALID reason not to do it. It’s a reason for sure, but not a good one.

The reason this is excuse is its most dangerous is because doing hard and uncomfortable things is par for the course with personal growth work, inner transformation and changing our energy.  It will constantly be pulling us away from doing what needs to be done to make things better. 

Is it hard to stop living outside in and not letting your feelings be determined by external circumstances? Yup. But we don’t have a choice if we want to transform said circumstances.

Is it hard to embrace unwanted experiences in our lives, and see them for what they truly are–opportunities to grow, opportunities to look within and see where we need to clean things up energetically? Hell yes. 

Is it hard to stop using your past experience as a measuring stick for what is possible in the future? Yeah. But if we don’t do this, everything we want will continue to elude us because your mind will keep convincing you it’s unlikely to happen because it never has before.  And no amount of tools or techniques can compensate for truly not believing something is possible for us. 

Is it hard to develop TRUE gratitude for the good things in our life when we are so used to taking them for granted and just focusing on what’s wrong and what we don’t like? Absolutely.

Is it hard to set boundaries in a relationship when they have been completely absent the whole time? Affirmative.

 Is it hard to break off contact with your ex? Yes indeedy

 Is it hard to let go of bad habits and embrace good ones? No doubt. 

And if we decide it being too hard is a reason to not try at all or give up before we’ve succeeded, we have every right to make that call. But we must accept the consequences of that. 

If we don’t really change inside, if we don’t start doing things differently, our life isn’t really going to change in any meaningful, significant, lasting way, things probably won’t ever look much different than they do now, we probably won’t feel much differently than we do now. 

It can be a hard pill to swallow but that’s the reality of the situation. Some of these changes may need to be gradual…that’s fine as long as you keep moving forward. You may have lots of stops and starts but as long as you keep starting again, you’ll get there. As long as you can honestly say you are really making a sincere effort, you’ll get there. 

You must get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Do that and nothing will stop you because our mind’s unwillingness to contend with unpleasant feelings is our only real obstacle in pretty much every aspect of this work. 

We Have to Make a Choice

Before when we had no idea what was going on on that energetic level, when we had no clue the impact our inner world was having on our outer, when we really weren’t aware of how messed up our mind was, we created all sorts of problems for ourselves. But we didn’t know any better–we weren’t doing it on purpose. 

But now that we are ‘burdened’ with all this knowledge, we do know better. We do know things can be different. We do know we are capable of changing in all sorts of wonderful ways. 

And I’ll tell you something–knowing all this stuff now and then not doing anything will feel far worse than whatever transpires emotionally and situationally once you commit to this journey in a real way. There will be an ever-growing tension that you’ll be acutely aware of pretty much constantly. 

‘Succeeding’ with all this ‘work’ ultimately comes down to conscious choice. We get to choose what we believe. We get to decide if we are going to put forth the effort to make these changes.

We get to decide if we  embrace these beliefs and perspectives we know in our hearts are true–this is all we have to go on essentially , especially in the beginning when we haven’t manifested much proof in our own experience. 

We get to decide if we truly embrace our challenges as an opportunity to grow or an opportunity to just bitch and moan things aren’t fair, feel badly for ourselves and use them as ‘proof’ of all the crappy beliefs to which our mind insists on clinging. 

These choices aren’t one-and-done-deals either. They are continuous because we will always be getting ‘contradictory’ input from outside us, from our own personal experience to what we observe in the world at large. ‘Stuff’ will always be coming up that you didn’t know was there. Certain experiences will bring to light things you didn’t realize you felt or believed.

We have to continuously choose in favor of truth, in favor of our own well-being rather than all the nonsense our mind is telling us, which will never do anything but lead us astray. 

This is challenging but like I said earlier, accepting it is challenging makes it so much less so because our resistance to it being ‘hard,’ that whiny toddler part of us that just wants our ‘stuff’ and doesn’t think it’s ‘fair’ we have to ‘deal’ with all this, accounts for the bulk of the ‘challenge.’ 

Your Turn

What did you think of the post? Anything resonate in particular? How do you deal with your mind? Looking forward to your comments as always. 

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