Dealing with lost momentum
You’re working on something and you’ve got great energy, you’re feeling really motivated. Quite possibly, you’re consciously using a polarity. Then you hit some thought that throws you off, way off. One moment you were feeling blissfully creative, the next you’re feeling stuck. From there, it’s easy to stay stuck all day obsessing over why you lost your nice feelings of creativity. How do you get out of the stuck and back to feeling creative?
This is a problem I often encounter when I start to gain momentum. This morning I was thinking about how I was going to systemise my freelancing business so that I would be prepared in case I received more work than I could handle. I was feeling great and creating an excellent system to handle that situation when I hit the thought of how much I would benefit from it personally. My motivation disappeared, and it’s taken me most of the day to get it back.
The trick, I think, is not to take the fall too seriously. You’ve just discovered a thought that’s not aligned with what you want. Try this line of thought on for size: “Oops, I didn’t mean to do that. I must have found something I don’t want! What was that thing? Ooh, thinking about that feels bad. What would be its opposite? That feels better. Let’s go with that!”
Why does this work?
In truth, a fluctuation in your feelings or motivation is not a problem. You might have experienced this on a smaller scale by holding a number of different thoughts in order to select the one that feels best to you. When you do this, a bad feeling is not disaster, it just means that thought is not the one for you. The stuck-ness happens when you take it seriously. As soon as you start obsessing over the stuck feeling, thinking about how good you were feeling before and how bad you feel now, you reinforce and perpetuate the stuck feeling.
You are not your feelings. When you accidentally create one you don’t like, you’re still safe. You still have the freedom to switch your focus to what you want and create some new, more pleasant feelings. You don’t have to struggle to regain control of your vibration. You never lost it. You always have that power, and you can choose to use it constructively when you recognise that you’re in a negative cycle.
In retrospect, I could have flipped my situtation around this morning. “Oops, wrong perspective! Instead of thinking about the benefits for myself, what will my business system do for my clients? They’ll get better, more predictable service, etc, etc, etc“. I would be back on track.
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