Neural Pathways - A Caution

Oftentimes, just when I am about to make a personal breakthrough, I can almost always count on a last ditch effort on the part of my reactive mind to maintain homeostasis. It will do whatever it can to keep my 'shift' from happening. And it sounds something like this: “Aw, give it up, what do you think you’re doing? You’re a schmuck and nothing’s ever going to change that. You’re a fool if you think you can beat this habit. Who do you think you are anyway? You're Way too old to change. And even if you do, nothing will really be different. You've given it a go, it didn't work, relax."

I finally got it. The reactive part of my mind has a huge investment in maintaining its own fiction, its own matrix of lies. It doesn't really care about me, and it dang sure doesn't care about the Truth.  So I have learned to keep doing what I'm doing, because I said I would, and because it matters that I keep my word to myself!  And the trick I know now is that the more it works to discourage me, the closer I am to making the shift I want to make. The jig's up!

Comments

[Bettina Casimir Clark]

Thanks for the encouragement over and over again!!! It helps.
Love,
Bettina

[Jenny Meadows]

In that same vein, if you don't get a lot of pushback from your mind when you're going for breaking a long-established habit, you're either slightly off-target, out of range of the true guiding belief and its habit, and the mind is oh-so-satisfied that you are. Or you're not that invested in creating new behavior, and the mind is oh-so-pleased that you're not.

Jen

[Rebecca Lincoln]

Thanks. Funny, just tonight I was noticing how my mind get's stuck in a repetitive pattern of shame. And, I thought, maybe I have this neural pathway that keeps going back to shame. The brainwaves know that pathway. I must be close to something because that shame, judgment pathway is screaming inside. Thankfully, I can just watch it from a distance and know it isn't true.

And, your post is encouraging.

Rebecca