Why Do We Get Stuck?

Here we go. We all have this magnificent capability of living out our soul’s purpose, so why do so many, including myself, struggle with this? Why do we get stuck? In my humble opinion, the heart, body, and mind connection is where intuition lives - that which is the connection to our soul, to which it knows no bounds. How do we keep the heart & mind connection active, thus giving us the confidence to act on our intuitive sense? 

I’m definitely not about to answer this entire question, but I’ve got some interesting ideas that I’ve been journaling about recently… and interestingly I came up with one side of this perspective that’s all based on the body not being in motion… then I went out and put myself in motion and got an entirely different perspective, leaving me with a beautifully balanced understanding of how to manage the ole fear-bug that likes to jump up and get in our way! Let me know if you dig it, or disagree. This is just me...
 

Pt. 1 - Where’s the Fear in an Idle Body?
When we are idle, it is not the mind that is afraid. The body is where the “fear” resides. The body is what stores the trauma, while the mind is where the imagination lives.

When we are physically stuck and weighed down with depression, anxiety, heartache, or otherwise, we are truly bound by the fear that resides in our bodies. It drowns our deepest intuitive senses to “get up” and keeps us “stuck.” All the trauma that is stored in the body is what pulls the mind into the fears that we are most afraid of — whether it’s jumping out of an airplane or jumping out of a relationship…

When the body is holding onto fear you can physically feel it - in your gut and in your muscles; continuing to be idle creates chronic pain and obesity, which further exacerbates fear and eventually, we just live in it. When fear is in our organs it creates dis-ease that can often be unexplainable in medical terms. And fear can even be in the air that we breathe…

But with every breath is the opportunity to choose to receive the energy to bless our body and cleanse all of that trauma. Every breath is a choice to form a new pathway. Breathing is essential to getting out of this fear state. When we hold our breath we are killing off oxygen to our brains and pushing the fear higher. Howver, as soon as we take that first gasp of air, we release the fear... bringing more oxygen to our brain and body. When we release the tension, we receive the gift of energy from the universe, which feeds our body and soul.

And when these new pathways are being formed one can know it’s different because you feel the difference unfold in the body - at first, it’s the body’s resistance of the ego tightness, the aching, the longing, and trauma that’s all within the body holding one back from the new feelings of excitement, confidence, vision, optimism, and laughter and so on.

In part, it is that lack of motion, the lack of action, that allows our body to become more mass than energy, thus overtaking the mind with complacency. And paradoxically, it is the act of motion that allows our body to become more energy than mass, thus allowing our body to push our mind. How do you think Michael Jordan soars through the air? He certainly isn’t weighed down by the trauma in his body!

The emotions that connect our brain to our body can be reconciled (and need to be ). And it is the freedom of our mind interacting with the open connection to our heart that gives us that choice. Resistance amplifies discomfort and keeps us in the resistance loop, leading to more bad choices, chronic pain, depression, addiction, and more.

So break the habit of the body and see what happens. Push yourself to new boundaries physically, rewire your body to rid itself of ego-based trauma, and fill it with loving energy and vibrant intuition!

Pt. 2 - Where’s the Fear in a Body in Motion?

The next time you do some endurance exercise - whether running a few miles, hiking, or skinning up the mountain - let me ask you this. In that first mental breakdown that we all have - when the thoughts start creeping in, where is the fear coming from now?

It’s the mind this time, right? 

I find myself bitching and moaning wanting to talk myself out of why I need to push my body to new physical limits and often can conjure up millions of excuses in nanoseconds. But then one day it dawned on me, my body is not in any kind of real pain (at this point), and my legs have so much strength they could run for miles upon miles… there may be some tendons or ligaments, or tiny little muscles that are screaming at me, but that's probably because they got so used to being idle, so it's not real pain, it's entirely perceptual.

And the lack of awareness that this was merely perceptual has held me back so many times. Has it you? Did you convince yourself that you had to stop because of x, y, and z? 

This time it’s the mind that is holding the fear; and the more I listen to my body, the more I realize how capable it is, how supportive it is of pushing me beyond what my mind says it can do, and when I overcome whatever it is I was afraid of… when I'm standing on that mountain top, there is the "ah-ha" moment. It wouldn’t have come if I let the fear in my mind talk me out of it. So many of us can relate to this in our own ways - it doesn't have to be a mountain top. It can be as simple as the act that puts into motion your soul's purpose. 

Getting in tune with the body allows me to instantly change that thought pattern and now I’m like, wait, my legs don’t hurt and I can run a lot further than I thought… and once again it all comes down to breathing. While in tune with the body and focusing on my breath, I can literally climb mountains and stand where the divine connection flows into my heart and soul; and I am balanced.

The body, the mind, and the soul are all in harmony when the paradox is that individually they could never do it on their own. And individually they will always find ways to talk themselves out of it. Isolation creates inflammation. Without action, the body locks the mind in fear. In action, the mind traps the body with excuses. Through the power of the breath they find each other - they need each other - it takes coming together in the hardest, most paradoxical of times for one to get there.

And that's one of the ways all those famous quotes, movie scenes, plot lines, twists, and turns in life keep us enthralled and asking the same old question - "How was that possible?"  The best kind of love is knowing our soul's purpose and acting on it, and then... anything and everything is possible. There is never a day when anything isn't possible.