Category: Anxiety

Many times in a person’s life, the things that prevent them from achieving their goals, or reaching their full potential, are not physical obstructions. The problem often lies on a spiritual, or metaphysical level, which can only be resolved by correcting the flow of energies within their body. Multiple techniques such as Reiki, visualization, crystal therapy and hypnosis can heal those issues.

Each individual has seven centers of energy within themselves, each one influencing different parts of their body, organs, senses, abilities and instincts. These are known as chakras and are an integral part of a person’s spiritual well-being. When one or more of these areas become clouded or unbalanced, it can result in negative influences that may affect physical health, emotional well-being, and functionality.

A lot of people tend to think that all problems are the result of physical factors or simply bad luck. In actuality, many issues come about because the individual is actually producing negative energies that are blocking them from making important connections with the world around them and may cloud their judgement. These obstructions can even evolve into health concerns and emotional disturbances.

Disturbances in one’s personal energy flow through the chakras can have an impact on an emotional, mental, spiritual and physical level. Stress may be elevated, which often results in feelings of anxiety, depression, fatigue, pain, low motivation. It could also lead to the development of immune deficiencies, infections, allergies, inflammation, disease, and other types of health issues.

There are a range of techniques for healing available to handle these types of issues. Some people respond best to procedures such as Reiki or hypnosis, while others may get better results with crystals, meditation or transference. Working on a deeply holistic level, these treatments can help to restore a person’s vitality, mental clarity, inner harmony, self-esteem and connectivity.

The technique known as Reiki removes blockages in areas that are centered in one or more chakras by using the therapist’s transference abilities to eliminate negative energies and redirect the positive energies to those areas that may be lacking. This involves the individual lying on a table in a relaxed state, while the one performing the treatment places their hands just slightly above the body, creating a vibratory connection. They then channel the flow as would best benefit the sufferer.

Some people find that visualization techniques where they meditate and imagine the chakras growing roots that connect to each other and to the Earth, to be an effective way of grounding themselves and removing obstructions. Certain crystals such as obsidian, ruby, garnet, bloodstone, hematite, black tourmaline and smoky quartz, are commonly utilized in the cleansing of one’s energies. Many individuals respond well to hypnosis, which can help them to avoid certain behaviors and factors that may instigate the spiritual blockages, and find a clearer energetic connection.

While not all techniques are suited for every individual, discovering which works best for oneself can be quite beneficial in becoming more spiritually grounded, emotionally stable, and mentally clear. It may also lead to improved physical health and the reduction of various conditions that could be hindering one’s full potential. Relationships of a personal and professional nature often experience significant clarity once inner balance has been restored.

Many times in a person’s life, the things that prevent them from achieving their goals, or reaching their full potential, are not physical obstructions. The problem often lies on a spiritual, or metaphysical level, which can only be resolved by correcting the flow of energies within their body. Multiple techniques such as Reiki, visualization, crystal therapy and hypnosis can heal those issues.

Each individual has seven centers of energy within themselves, each one influencing different parts of their body, organs, senses, abilities and instincts. These are known as chakras and are an integral part of a person’s spiritual well-being. When one or more of these areas become clouded or unbalanced, it can result in negative influences that may affect physical health, emotional well-being, and functionality.

A lot of people tend to think that all problems are the result of physical factors or simply bad luck. In actuality, many issues come about because the individual is actually producing negative energies that are blocking them from making important connections with the world around them and may cloud their judgement. These obstructions can even evolve into health concerns and emotional disturbances.

Disturbances in one’s personal energy flow through the chakras can have an impact on an emotional, mental, spiritual and physical level. Stress may be elevated, which often results in feelings of anxiety, depression, fatigue, pain, low motivation. It could also lead to the development of immune deficiencies, infections, allergies, inflammation, disease, and other types of health issues.

There are a range of techniques for healing available to handle these types of issues. Some people respond best to procedures such as Reiki or hypnosis, while others may get better results with crystals, meditation or transference. Working on a deeply holistic level, these treatments can help to restore a person’s vitality, mental clarity, inner harmony, self-esteem and connectivity.

The technique known as Reiki removes blockages in areas that are centered in one or more chakras by using the therapist’s transference abilities to eliminate negative energies and redirect the positive energies to those areas that may be lacking. This involves the individual lying on a table in a relaxed state, while the one performing the treatment places their hands just slightly above the body, creating a vibratory connection. They then channel the flow as would best benefit the sufferer.

Some people find that visualization techniques where they meditate and imagine the chakras growing roots that connect to each other and to the Earth, to be an effective way of grounding themselves and removing obstructions. Certain crystals such as obsidian, ruby, garnet, bloodstone, hematite, black tourmaline and smoky quartz, are commonly utilized in the cleansing of one’s energies. Many individuals respond well to hypnosis, which can help them to avoid certain behaviors and factors that may instigate the spiritual blockages, and find a clearer energetic connection.

While not all techniques are suited for every individual, discovering which works best for oneself can be quite beneficial in becoming more spiritually grounded, emotionally stable, and mentally clear. It may also lead to improved physical health and the reduction of various conditions that could be hindering one’s full potential. Relationships of a personal and professional nature often experience significant clarity once inner balance has been restored.

In any given moment, you are already walking the shortest possible path towards the manifestation of your dreams. In fact, there is nothing else than the shortest possible path existing!

So, why do many things seem to take so long to manifest?

Because you simply hold too many other contradictory thoughts about your desired outcome, or have so many doubts…

The path towards your desires is always the shortest possible one at the given moment, considering the sum of all your thoughts regarding the desired output. More rubbish inside your thoughts about the desired outcome simply produces a “bumpier” variation of the shortest path possible at the given moment. On the other hand, joyful and loving thoughts about the desired outcome will always produce a much “smoother” and shorter path.

What is impatience, then?

It is just another expression for the total sum of all the related negative feelings about the desired outcome, which are, as an effect, producing the obstacles towards it, and therefore, at the given moment making the shortest possible path a pretty long one!

What we call impatience is really just a sum of many negative feelings related to the desired outcome. Our anxiety, coming out from what we call “impatience” is, in fact, just connected with the negative, conflicting thoughts and beliefs, we still hold about the desired outcome (so then, in our subconscious mind, the it might not be as desired as we think of it at the conscious level).

But when you think about it more deeply, you will realize that impatience is an enormous gift.

It is a tremendously helpful reminder telling us that our desired outcomes still can’t be manifested, because there are still too many negative feelings behind the desired outcome, which need to be let go.

So, once we let go this kind of feeling that we usually call “impatience” (it is just labeling), what we really let go, are the negative feelings and contradictory thoughts and beliefs behind the desired outcome, which hold us back from producing a different shorter path towards its fulfillment and manifestation.

Once we let go of these feelings, we will finally start experiencing peace about the desired outcome, and, as a result, we will finally know for sure that the outcome will come exactly at the right moment, through the shortest path possible. So, the feeling of impatience will simply vanish.

And once we even let go of the outcome itself, the path to its manifestation will finally be the shortest of all the shortest paths possible.

This is the paradox of life, which I believe, many of you have already experienced: Once you “give up” on the desired outcome (let it go); once you stop pushing, making any effort, all of a sudden, the desired outcome will manifest almost immediately.

Why?

Because you let it go, which is the foundation of most manifestations.

But already letting go of impatience is a huge step ahead that will definitely lead you to the shortest path possible with hardly any bumps, which, from linear thinking, will be way shorter (and faster) than the current one. Just letting go of all (or most) of the negativity behind our desired outcomes will completely change the course of events towards the manifestation of the outcome (with some additional effects, like a sudden increase of synchronicity).

Here is the letting go process for impatience:

1. In a quiet place, close your eyes and bring up all the feelings of impatience related to the desired outcome.

2. Start embracing and experiencing these feelings fully.

3. Don’t try to label these feelings in any way, rationalize or analyze them. Just let them come out and experience themselves.

4. Start surrendering yourself to these feelings slowly, let them express themselves fully all over your body (or any other part where you feel them most intensively). Don’t push them back; don’t block them or act on them either. Just let them be in their natural way and instead, be an independent observer of them, as if they weren’t even yours.

5. After a while, make a decision about letting them go once and forever, and then let them actually go and disappear.

6. Because the amount of negative feelings related to impatience can be quite often pretty intense and deep, you will probably need to repeat steps 1-5 several times.

In any given moment, you are already walking the shortest possible path towards the manifestation of your dreams. In fact, there is nothing else than the shortest possible path existing!

So, why do many things seem to take so long to manifest?

Because you simply hold too many other contradictory thoughts about your desired outcome, or have so many doubts…

The path towards your desires is always the shortest possible one at the given moment, considering the sum of all your thoughts regarding the desired output. More rubbish inside your thoughts about the desired outcome simply produces a “bumpier” variation of the shortest path possible at the given moment. On the other hand, joyful and loving thoughts about the desired outcome will always produce a much “smoother” and shorter path.

What is impatience, then?

It is just another expression for the total sum of all the related negative feelings about the desired outcome, which are, as an effect, producing the obstacles towards it, and therefore, at the given moment making the shortest possible path a pretty long one!

What we call impatience is really just a sum of many negative feelings related to the desired outcome. Our anxiety, coming out from what we call “impatience” is, in fact, just connected with the negative, conflicting thoughts and beliefs, we still hold about the desired outcome (so then, in our subconscious mind, the it might not be as desired as we think of it at the conscious level).

But when you think about it more deeply, you will realize that impatience is an enormous gift.

It is a tremendously helpful reminder telling us that our desired outcomes still can’t be manifested, because there are still too many negative feelings behind the desired outcome, which need to be let go.

So, once we let go this kind of feeling that we usually call “impatience” (it is just labeling), what we really let go, are the negative feelings and contradictory thoughts and beliefs behind the desired outcome, which hold us back from producing a different shorter path towards its fulfillment and manifestation.

Once we let go of these feelings, we will finally start experiencing peace about the desired outcome, and, as a result, we will finally know for sure that the outcome will come exactly at the right moment, through the shortest path possible. So, the feeling of impatience will simply vanish.

And once we even let go of the outcome itself, the path to its manifestation will finally be the shortest of all the shortest paths possible.

This is the paradox of life, which I believe, many of you have already experienced: Once you “give up” on the desired outcome (let it go); once you stop pushing, making any effort, all of a sudden, the desired outcome will manifest almost immediately.

Why?

Because you let it go, which is the foundation of most manifestations.

But already letting go of impatience is a huge step ahead that will definitely lead you to the shortest path possible with hardly any bumps, which, from linear thinking, will be way shorter (and faster) than the current one. Just letting go of all (or most) of the negativity behind our desired outcomes will completely change the course of events towards the manifestation of the outcome (with some additional effects, like a sudden increase of synchronicity).

Here is the letting go process for impatience:

1. In a quiet place, close your eyes and bring up all the feelings of impatience related to the desired outcome.

2. Start embracing and experiencing these feelings fully.

3. Don’t try to label these feelings in any way, rationalize or analyze them. Just let them come out and experience themselves.

4. Start surrendering yourself to these feelings slowly, let them express themselves fully all over your body (or any other part where you feel them most intensively). Don’t push them back; don’t block them or act on them either. Just let them be in their natural way and instead, be an independent observer of them, as if they weren’t even yours.

5. After a while, make a decision about letting them go once and forever, and then let them actually go and disappear.

6. Because the amount of negative feelings related to impatience can be quite often pretty intense and deep, you will probably need to repeat steps 1-5 several times.

To say that all people are different is an understatement. One could talk for days on all the types of humans and their personalities, preferences and quirks, behaviors and communication styles. Thanks to the fact that social psychology seems to be trending these days, the on-demand style of information consumption now applies to figuring out what type of career best suits your personality just as easily as it does to diagnosing (or misdiagnosing) your new symptoms of Avian Bird Flu on the internet.

There are tons of online resources that will tell you who you are, why you think the way you think, what you need, which colors will make you happy, what to stop doing in 2016, and how to bring more positive energy into your life. Who needs a therapist anymore when you have the internet, right? (joking.) But there’s something that no amount of article mining and quiz taking can prepare you for, because it originates in your gut and ends in your heart. You can’t just program yourself to do it or feed your brain internet mumbo jumbo, because it will affect the course of the rest of your life (and we’re not talking about how your friends will think you look in fuchsia at Brittany’s baby shower).

Two Opinions on Risk

I’m talking about risk-taking. Some people are born risk-takers – bold, fearless, unabashed, unapologetic, unfettered, daring, and edgy. Maybe they take risks with their money: gambling, investing, making hasty purchases. Maybe they’re risky in the verbal sense: unafraid to offend anyone, convicted and opinionated, not quite what you’d call tactful. Or career risk-takers: ambitious ladder-climbers with no qualms about abandoning their personal life and stepping on toes to achieve new heights at the office.

The opposite, of course, are the play-it-safe types. Cautious, ambivalent, analytical; the people who think things through and carefully weigh all sides, usually erring on the side safety even when the slightly more risky decision displays potential to yield apparent benefit. And there are those who fall somewhere in the middle – careful with financial and career pursuits but perhaps less guarded when it comes to their social lives; the wear-your-heart-on-your-sleeve and kiss-and-tell types who, maybe, aren’t as private about their social lives or as cautious with their health as it would behoove them to be.

Risk is a tricky thing. Some attach fear to risk and become too paralyzed with thoughts of worst-case scenarios, fallout, and consequences to act, and so they do nothing. Others can remove fear from the equation and approach risk as nothing more than a logical transaction with two options – to take risk or not to take risk. Some believe that taking risks is the only way to really get anywhere in life; that playing it safe is for fools. Others believe that risk is a synonym for danger and that risk-takers are reckless and untrustworthy.

Mastering the Art

Whether you’re risk-averse or a habitual gambler who smokes and never wears a seat belt, there are times in life when you’re presented with choices that aren’t always obvious or comfortable. Learning how to take calculated risks is an art that everyone should master.

A calculated risk is a situation in which the presence of risk doesn’t necessarily outweigh the benefit of choosing that situation. There are usually two choices: the front-runner, which your mind naturally leans toward because it seems the smarter, safer choice, and the underdog, which might not be bad or unsafe, but puts you at less of an advantage than the front-runner, depending how you look at it.

You see, when faced with difficult decisions, most people will tell you it’s important to look at the big picture. And that’s true! But you have to develop your own context for the big picture. Is the importance of your life going to be rooted in your happiness, your career and financial outlook, your relationship security, or your freedom and independence? Maybe this would be a good time to take one of those online personality quizzes if you don’t know what’s most important to you.

In Context

I recently took a calculated risk and it has already paid off more than I ever could have imagined. It was a big decision that required a lot of thinking, but deep down I knew which way I was going to go. Trusting your gut might not always lead you in the right direction, especially if you’re the type of person who doesn’t have good instincts, but in most cases it will.

The decision I made, on paper, looked like I was giving up security, financial freedom, and a career stronghold. But in actuality, had I made that choice, I would’ve been giving up a lot more. The “underdog” I ended up choosing has provided me with support, freedom, happiness, fulfillment, and endless possibility (in addition to convenience, comfort, flexibility, and a new perspective on life and career). Many times, in choosing the safer option, self-doubt and fear can cripple one’s ability to see the potential of turning the underdog situation into the front-runner.

Here are a few questions to ask yourself next time you need to take a calculated risk:

1. Which of these choices will make me happiest?
2. Which of these choices feels the most natural?
3. Which of these choices represents a bigger lifestyle change, and is that desirable or undesirable for me?
4. What position will each of these choices put me in one year from now?
5. How will each of these choices affect the important people in my life?
6. How much can this make me? (Notice I didn’t say ‘how much will this cost me?’)

Along with asking yourself these questions, it’s just as important to notice what’s not on the list. I’m sure you’ll be thinking about more than just these six questions, though – if you’re the analytical type you’ll probably have spreadsheets and pie charts illustrating each possible outcome, and if you’re the worrying kind you’ll probably spend sleepless nights tossing and turning or calling your mom for advice.

Believe in Yourself

But no matter who you are, I’m here to tell you that risk-takers can get careful and tiptoers can step outside the lines. In the end, choosing the thing that will leave you with the least regret will usually be the smarter option, whether it causes initial discomfort, a lot of adjustment, or just flat-out anxiety. So, trust your gut most of the time, but when it’s too hard to decide, remember: risk-taking isn’t dangerous as long as it’s calculated.