Do you wait or do you Leap?
I’d like to share two more aspects from the material that Paul Blackburn delivered during the two-day Blockage Buster seminar.
First one
I found it amusing when Paul said that we are bothered by standing still, and think that some movement or action is better than none.
He gave the analogy of someone standing at an isolated railway station.
Listen to the 3.32 minute AUDIO if it suits your day better.
All day the person stands at the station and waits and waits, but no train comes along.Then, very late in the afternoon, a train shows up, but it’s going in the opposite direction.
What does that person do? S/he gets on the train. Going somewhere is better than just staying there.
This is most people do. They’ll get on because there’s not a guarantee of another train. There hasn’t been another one all day.
Better take the opportunity that is offered because another may not come again so soon.
Even if it takes you completely off your desired course, your goal.
You do have goals for everything, don’t you?
I laughed when I heard that.
I have been guilty of taking a job simply because it was offered to me, but I knew that I didn’t really want it, it was better to take that one than either, not have one at all, or stay in the one I was in which had lost its luster.
One of the participants on the weekend said that she got married, because the man she was going out with had asked her to.
She liked him, and thought this could be the only proposal she’ll ever get so she may as well take it.
How often do we do things because they happen to come along, not because we really want to do them, nor are they usually in our best interest.
We just don’t want to stand still.
Interesting, when it’s put like that, isn’t it?
Second one
The lower your self-esteem, the more impossible to achieve your goal.
When you have an emotional response to something, that’s when the ‘truth’ of that situation appears. That’s when it becomes real.
If you are working with someone, look into their eyes when you ask them a question because they might be used to the feeling of being inauthentic.
That feeling of inauthenticity will seem real and the truth will go right past them, but you’ll be able to see the feeling in their eyes.
Most people are over-stimulated, and that’s why they cannot focus. This over-stimulation is in the domain of the conscious mind.
Experiences such as
• ‘being bored’ are not an emotion, they and authentic answer
• freedom, is also not an emotion, but it’s something we want to feel
They are surface responses, but are not the real problem. It is necessary to probe deeper with questioning.
The next posting will have more from Blockage Buster.
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