Open the Flow!
I just sat here for probably 10 minutes with my mind spinning off in all sorts of directions. Fantasies for the future, problem-solving in the present, excavating my past for meaning and lessons…all of this cropped up and more.
One thought that popped in and stayed a while was how to help someone see that, to pay me to free up the human blocks, obstacles, barriers to moving forward, upleveling, evolving her/his company through the employees who work there would be a worthy endeavor. The Divine thought that came through after that bout of fantasy was “The best way to do that for others is to do it for myself! Take risks, speak up, be bold!”
Someone I’ve known for many years popped into my head at that point as an example of someone who thinks from a position of scarcity which leads to her being very tight with her money, which, in my opinion, keeps her stuck in the lower rungs of success. There’s limited flow because she has her hand too tightly on the faucet and keeps turning down the flow when she gets scared. Again, I looked at my own reflection in that scenario. Loosening up frees up the flow.
As I wandered my way through all manner of push-pull thoughts and feelings, it jelled that I could benefit from some PSYCH-K balancing related to all of this and designed to free up the flow within me. Rather than keeping my hand on the faucet and repeatedly turning it up and down as my thoughts move from faith to fear and back again, I want to open the tap up, then step back and breathe through the fears as the flow continues.
To that end, I created a statement to balance, “I manage the anxiety and fears that have previously caused me to turn down the flow”. That statement needed a New Direction balance in order to get my subconscious mind on board with that concept. A New Direction balance is one tool in the PSYCH-K toolkit and I use balancing as a way to move myself forward in life, past what are mainly self-imposed obstacles based on my fears. PSYCH-K is one of many modalities I use with coaching clients to move them off of stuck places. Again, if it works for others, I can definitely benefit from applying it to myself!
I want to point out here the number of times I’ve already mentioned my observations (judgments??) of others’ paths in life and where they hold themselves up AND how I’m consciously choosing to then look at that for myself. We don’t tend to notice and judge things in others if they aren’t also operating on some level within us. Therefore, my own judgments about someone else’s hang-ups are prime real estate for me to explore in terms of my own hang-ups!
My next steps were to come up with some baby steps forward in terms of action plan for opening up the flow and stepping back to let it run. One idea immediately popped to mind, but my initial reaction was “How the Hell am I going to do that??” That let me know that particular step was too big, so I broke it down into several steps, the first of which felt very doable. Can I see the step beyond that? Not very clearly yet. But I do know from six decades of life experience that taking the first step often brings the next step into clearer focus.
As I continue to acknowledge my fears and take my steps forward on this particular project, I invite you to join me in stepping forward with something you’d like to accomplish, too. My hope is several of the thoughts conveyed in this blog post resonate for you to the extent that they get you moving forward again. As I wrote on one of the 3 X 5 cards I keep posted on my desk, “Move Ahead Anyway…Your Soul Knows the Way Through”.