Discomfort is change happening.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t achieve, you don’t come to a conclusion.
It is an endless river.
–Krishnamurti
Here we are. A little less than a month to the end of the year.
How are you feeling? What are you holding on to?
It can be tempting to focus on what hasn’t happened, what wasn't yet attained. Negativity bias demands that.
It is far more radical to pivot from that default and to allow a stance of gratitude as you look back at the past 11 months. Notice the good. Come back to that.
And trust…
Any conflicting emotions and turmoil has a place. A message to share. A motivating force to offer.
Discomfort is change happening.
It's ALL information. This simple reframe has helped me and my clients to develop a lens of observation so we stop identifying with the discomfort and discover the wisdom it may be communicating.
When we feel discomfort, it is a call to listen to something in our unconscious bubbling to the surface to be healed. There's a block that needs tending, there's an approach that needs addressing. There's a child that needs healing. There's a part that needs space to be heard.
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Discomfort can be a powerful indicator that you are shifting a programming in your subconscious mind, that you are pushing against the homeostasis of your beliefs and associations, that you are stirring the pot for creating the change you desire. As we take this stance of curiosity, and work with the part holding us back, we build a muscle of automated empowerment to face the unknown and resilience in order to meet the next challenge... as there will always be something leading us closer to a deeper connection with ourselves and others.
Take comfort in anchoring into the truth of your accomplishments, goals, feats you've overcome and breakthroughs you've made in your life. Think back on those... and how those also were likely met with discomfort. Remember how you moved through the challenges and built incredible trust in your power. The gains and wins hold resonance when we allow ourselves to face discomfort. It's here that we truly move in the direction of our dreams.
So, how can we shift our relationship to it?
The shift begins when we stop identifying with the discomfort, the resistance that tangles us into past ways of being and thinking, and instead to adopt an empowered lens when viewing the situation we are working through.
Rather than focusing our attention on the discomfort, we can learn to direct our attention to the desired outcome, our intention.
Ask yourself: What does it look, feel, and sound like to embody the change I seek? What will that take?
We can meet the part holding us back, that wants to stay comfortable, and work through the resistance to create new programming around the desired outcome. This takes conscious awareness of subconscious patterns. As we become more conscious of these we can begin to loosen the boundaries of these patterns. And even more potently when we work with the 95% of our mind, the subconscious, in a highly suggestible state of hypnosis, we can soften and dissolve the impact of the old stories.
Begin by noticing what happens when you allow yourself to become curious about the discomfort you are experiencing, simply by observing it. When we remove ourselves from the issue, we can untangle the knots and see more clearly the direction forward.
The trance state of hypnosis assists in this by allowing non-judgmental, focused, and intentional space for the subconscious to absorb positive suggestions for change. Changing your story (mindsets, beliefs, habits), you change your reality.
While discomfort presents itself, your reaction to the discomfort is where you get to rediscover your power and deeper awareness of yourself.
That's the treasure.
Let me guide you in working with discomfort at the conscious and subconscious levels to step into sustainable calm and confidence and live the authentic life you deserve, the one calling you.
