Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Stuck or moving on?
There can be occasions when we feel that we'd like to move on, to change our situation, to get something new, to have a new experience, a new home, new lover or a new job. But while we think that we'd like to move on, we may also have the strong feeling of being stuck in the same old situation. What can we do to help ourselves move forward?
To my understanding there can be many reasons why we may feel that we're stuck when part of us is crying out for change; many will be beyond our comprehension or awareness. The Universe works in mysterious ways and we'll never know all that's going on that may affect us. Maybe the timing isn't right yet; maybe the change is just around the corner; possibly something else needs to happen first.
It could be that we are not ready to move on yet; despite having the clear idea (mental), there may be deeper emotions (heart) that may over-rule and it's likely that our heart-felt ideals and wishes are more powerful than our intellectual thoughts in governing our lives.
We may also be hanging on to certain ideas. Maybe we need to let go of something, to release ourselves or another, to let go of old habits, to let go of our clutter, to have a good spring clean and clear-out. Hanging on to old ways, old patterns and circumstances that were once helpful and ideal to our situation then may not be relevant to our life today.
Letting go is a wonderful process, be it with our outworn postural habits (a little awareness and intention can change those), our 'comfortable' and familiar routine, an attachment to a situation or person or place. Sometimes it's just great to have a clear-out of certain small things that clutter up our life, so we have room for the new. "I'm going to cut that man right out of my hair!" (South Pacific film), we could clear the loft, the side of my desk, the pile of junk in the garage, throw out all those old clothes and books and give them to charity,
When we 'feel stuck' it is us that's doing the sticking, no-one else. If we feel stuck it is actually our choice to be where we are, although we may not fully comprehend this. We can choose something different. Yes, there can be all sorts of reasons why we should not do something and we can intellectualise about them till the cows come home. We can argue against our good ideas for ever. But at the end of the day we choose our life.
So if we feel that things are not moving ahead, we may ask ourselves "What am I hanging on to? Can I let it go?" If we can, that's OK. If we cannot let it go....that's OK. :-)
We have the choice.
