Life is a work in progress. The thing I need to work on the most right now is to get out of my own head.
There are a lot of things on my mind. Some I can do things about. Many, however, are far beyond my control. And yet they sit, like ginormous weights on my chest, holding me down, and holding me back.
For a long time now, I have believed that I am on the cusp of breaking past the barriers that hold me back. The paths are clear, and I can start to really live the life I have long desired to manifest.
The single largest obstacle remaining is…drum roll please….me. Guess where the obstacles have taken-up a semi-permanent residence? Yup – in my own head.
As I strive to make this work, and create an image of myself that reflects whom I most desire to be, I am still spending too much time in my own head.
What does that mean? How do I get out of my own head?
Every single one of us has, to some degree or other, inner-voices. There are voices that are often derived of past experiences, people and such that took up lodging long, long ago. When these voices speak to us, they tell us things about ourselves. Some are true. And of course, some are not.
Everybody has been praised and criticized at different junctures in their life. As we get older, we develop the ability to evaluate these things, and decide how we will act on them, or not. But as children, we take it all at face value.
Because we lack the ability to think critically as children, things take on a particularly literal meaning. Good and bad, they become part of us.
What’s in my own head is only mine
Journaling and blogging provides you, my readers, with a glimpse inside my head. Same goes for my Podcasting, which allows me to share my philosophy (and voice) with a larger audience. As I project the most ideal me to you, there are still demons inside my own head striving to hold me back.
Some of those inner voices are cheerleaders. But on the other side of the same coin, some are critics.
As such, when I get caught up in world affairs, like politics, the struggle is complicated. We are faced with some of the loudest, ugliest fear-mongering, hate-mongering, greed and corruption in decades. Striving to do for myself feels utterly selfish.
And so the inner critics speak. You are not good enough. What makes you think you deserve any of it? How can you live your life in that way? You know you are insane, right? Stop dreaming, get a real job, and stop playing that game you play.
I have written before about how words matter. But this is not just the words we say, it is also the words we think. When the words inside my own head are those above, it’s disempower, distressing, depressing, and serves to sabotage the efforts I am making.
Like everybody else on this planet, I am perfectly imperfect. However, the more I focus on my flaws, imperfections and various shortcoming, real or perceived, the more energy I feed them. This is why getting out of my own head is so important right now.
Consciousness creates reality. This is the Law of Attraction, and it is pretty damned straightforward. What you give your thoughts, feelings and intentional actions to, you will make manifest. This will happen whether you do so consciously, or sub-consciously.
I need to mute the negatives in my own head
The inner critics can’t be dismissed easily. They yammer on and on, because they want to be heard. And what’s more, most of the time it’s not so much that they want to disempower us, as much as they want to keep us safe.
Right here, in the here-and-now, I am safe. I have a roof over my head, a cat chilling on the floor of my office, the computer to create this blog. Change is scary. So those inner voices strive to keep me safe, because even though I desire more, the here-and-now is a known, safe quantity.
Recognizing this, it is time to get out of my own head, and act more to create the life I desire to make most manifest.
There is a sci-fi novel I have been working on, and loving, that needs attention. Eventually I might even figure out a name for it.
I have a new self-help conscious reality creation book being edited. That needs to be completed, because I think like my blogs and my podcast it can spread more good into the world.
The Source Chronicles Book III – Harbinger languishes. The third novel in my fantasy world is awaiting editing. I need to stop ignoring it.
And in the world of the SCA, I have a couple projects I need to give my attention to.
In the words of Al Franken’s fictional Stuart Smally, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like me!”
Time to get out my own head and get some shit done.
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