If We Know What To Do, Why Don’t We Do It?
You feel paralyzed and observe yourself as such: in this psychosomatic rigidity and motionless confusion. Yet at the same time, deep in your heart, you know exactly what to do to ease your mind and mood and make you happy again. Because in that inalienable inner clarity you fully realize that change – taking the next step – is in your hands and at your feet, but that you do not take action anyway. Internally you have already heard what you need, but something inside you is blocking this wisdom and especially its practical implementation. Why? What is happening here?
Fear is normally the biggest cause of all kinds of negative situations and dire circumstances in which we find ourselves. While overcoming fear can lead to great joy. It is possible that things are simpler than how you imagine them. And there is a very real chance that you have actually intuitively solved your mental or emotional dilemmas long and broad, that the answer has already been whispered to you from your higher, transrational consciousness. However, subcutaneous tension, panic and tightness keep you trapped in your cramped, frozen pose.
How do I feel?
Internally substantially and spontaneously a response to this question allow, is rather complicated. It takes patience and affection towards yourself. Trying to give this question space internally, to find the answer freely internally, requires honesty, vulnerability and an unbiased, open dialogue with your conscience. Reaching this level of trust and surrender can be a huge emotional challenge.
In your current position, you are plagued by a sense of unease, an inability to concentrate, and everyday, all-encompassing clumsiness. It’s as if you really know you’re in the wrong place, but still can’t move, so that the slumbering discomfort infects all your thoughts and feelings, and even affects your mood.
The Key: Intellectual Knowledge vs Emotional Knowledge
Broadly speaking, we all have two different kinds of intelligence that we use in our subjective, or personal, decision-making process. One type is based more on the intellectual, reasonable, logical, conceptual part of our brain and the other type is more based on our instincts, emotions and impulsive reactions. The former is usually associated with the exercise of control, planning and the quest for certainty and is thus extremely useful in moments of calm or even cold calculation: acting cool and firm. The latter, on the other hand, can save us in an emergency, when it comes to survival: fight, flight, but also in love.
Both sources are in fact connected beneath the surface, even flowing into each other, even if we (depending on our individual preference and disposition) surrender ourselves more to one, or to the other, inexhaustible inner source . For example, some people are naturally more empathetic than average. If you find time and again that you can rationally tell yourself exactly what you should (ideally) do and instinctively but do not understand why you nevertheless do not act on those well-considered instructions, then the explanation may lie hidden in your frost-stiffened emotional aquifer , that you can only make flow again with your attention and pure presence.
Reorganize your motivations
The conflict does not have to be hijacked or entangled in our minds. On the contrary, it would like to be guided out of the friction and out of the high pressure area by the inherent wisdom of emotion experienced without resistance. Because if you do something – anything – to do, you always from the inside to feel that you really want and are willing to do so. Suppose that, because of a declining health, it becomes increasingly acute and acute that you should quickly adjust your eating and living habits. Yet it never comes to pass. The problem is that emotionally you don’t want to start a diet at all, so that a serious lack of willpower plays tricks on you almost in advance.
Reflect openly on your intrinsic motivation and listen carefully to the unformulated directions of your soul compass. Don’t go on autopilot to the most appropriate destination, to the location that is most reasonable according to your ratio. Be not deaf and blind to the beckons of your heart. Give yourself enough time and space to discover the path from your own nature and follow it with confidence. Free yourself from the traumas and anxieties that deprive you of hope and sight of your dreamed future. Sooner or later you will be the parent and you will definitely pull this fight to your advantage and settle it in your favor. Only then do you have the guarantee that your actions will harmonize with your true desires.
