How to get unstuck
Channel: Adam Stanecki
Date: 08/10/2021

When you commit yourself to the great journey, you open yourself to ups and downs, to successes and failures, to flows and plateaus. Sometimes it feels like you are getting nowhere. I want you to consider that the feeling of getting nowhere is just your mind playing tricks on you. Your mind wants to keep you safe and sometimes your mind can try to keep you safe by keeping you in the same place. Because it’s safer to do nothing and not risk anything )or so that form of thinking goes). 

It can take some time and practice to see through the illusion that you are not getting anywhere. Sometimes to journey moves in very small steps. Sometimes you take big leaps. Even when you feel like you are getting nowhere there are little shifts happening. You just don’t notice them.

Here are two activities that you might investigate in order to get past this feeling of stuck-ness. 

One, recognise that what you are really doing is judging yourself. Again. If you can let go of that judgement, you can begin to realise that you are moving in the right direction and exactly the right speed for you right now. 

Two, sit with the feeling of stuck-ness. It is a valid feeling and it might be exactly what you need to lean into right now to continue your journey. Just because it doesn’t feel good doesn’t mean it is not useful.

So, be gentle with yourself, lean in, and be patient.
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