Why on earth you would want to create a mindblock?
Just when you thought you were reading a magazine that would get RID of your mindblocks, we are telling you to CREATE one? Are we out of our MINDS?
Yes we are. And how about the following. We are on our journey to improve our lives, we are high achievers, we are already successful in most areas of our lives, and we know how to take care of our own wellbeing. Some of us are also in charge of helping others to take care of their wellbeing and are very adept at this.
We manage our emotions, our schedules and our businesses. So, all is well? Indeed, all is well most of the time. We are upbeat, we know how to change our own feelings and we know what to do to get where we want to be most of the time.
Well, …. someone you know (not you!) may at times forget all the above, may at times be really tired and exhausted, may have burned the candle at both ends and just feel very unresourceful.
When we feel unresourceful, our body slumps, our language gets negative and before we know it, our focus is on a problem vs. a challenge, on what doesn’t work as opposed to what does, and on who doesn’t like us instead of who loves us. Ever been there?
When you are in that place, it is useful to create a mindblock. A mindblock blocks out thoughts (negative or positive) and in this case we are going to block out the negative. I know that when I am extremely tired, I can get really negative.
‘Stacking’ means, that I think of all the things that don’t work and add them up, like a tower of bricks.
‘Stacking’ is what most people do in ordinary life to get into a really bad mood. You go: ‘well, this morning I got out of bed, and when I was pouring the milk on the cereal, I spilled most of it on the floor. The floor is really hard to clean because it has broken tiles, which I should have had repaired ages ago.
The shower needs attention too, but last time the plumber was in we got into an argument and I felt really bad about myself. Then on my way to work, it rained, and I got soaking wet, I saw the look on my boss’ face and I knew he was resenting me for it, by teatime I ended up with a headache and felt I was having a real bad day’.
If these things would have happened another time, you would have seen them all as isolated events, but now you have started to stack them and drag all sorts of unrelated events into the situation. If you create a mindblock, you go back to considering them as isolated events. So, you stop yourself literally from making the connections between one and the other. You keep focussing on what is going on around you instead of going into your head and creating the stacked tower of negative thoughts.
This is how it works. You have to become super aware of your senses, look for what you see, listen to the sounds around you, smell the smells. If you are outside, focus on the colours, ask yourself what colours you see, and answer the question, I see red, yellow, green, blue. What do you hear? Birds, cars, trains, children laughing.
What do you smell? Flowers, dustbins?
Your mind will want to wander back to your misery litany, because you are on this trail to feeling bad, and you MUST create the mindblock in order to STOP it. Practice this over and over again and you will become a Mindblock Master!
Stay dedicated to Give Yourself The Ultimate Gift: The Best Of You.
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