"I Don't Just Want to Be a Dreamer" - The Steps To Take When Your Mind Is Holding You Hostage

"I don't just want to be a dreamer"

What powerful statement that is, and one which we have to face when deciding to create life alignment.

I found it really rather profound. You are not the only one. Many of us strive to become, instead of thriving on being.

You are experiencing a disconnect between internal action and external action.

Perhaps you are putting a lot of energy into 'dreaming'?

What is Stopping You From Having Life Alignment?

Those of us who are tipped towards the introvert side of the scale have a lot of internalising going on. We can 'be' in life alignment in our heads, our mind is a retreat, yet we yearn to 'make it happen'. We can voice whole speeches and create epic pieces of content in our heads, yet they are often never externalised. The minds swirls and they disappear before we have gotten them down on paper, and we are onto the next thoughts.

We can even sit at a computer and think reams of content, concepts and ideas, yet typing them out...

I call this when your mind is holding you hostage. Academics are like us, if we are not already academics. I heard a joke once about academics; the speaker said that academics consider their body just to be something to carry their head around.

I didn't get that as a joke. It made sense to me. I had travelled far out of life alignment, and had tuned out how important movement is to me.

Introverts are preoccupied with conserving energy, while extroverts are out there expending it.

I was in the state of chronic fatigue, in varying degrees, for about 5 years.

This conservation of energy, which our brain tells us is keeping us safe, can lead staleness and tension. We are hanging onto energy, as if it will slip away through our hands like water.

You have the resources to create your own, authentic, life alignment

Energy is all around us. It's available. When you live in the state of abundance, you are open to and focused on having abundance. Our attitude with energy needs to mirror that.

Bruce Lee is a remarkable example of life alignment, of mastering energy, chi, life flow. Watch him move. See how he draws in energy, moves it and directs it.

Studying the Shaolin philosophy, Tai chi and Qi Gong, could help you to expel any staleness in your body and get the energy flowing.

But that's seems like effort right.

Harnessing the bespoke approach

Find your preferred means to externalise. It could be painting, drawing, exercising, dancing, singing, writing, journaling, talking.

What form of externalising, taking action, do you love to do?

Do more of it; practise this as the art of externalisation. Hone your ability to take thought and turn it into expression. Hone your ability to find your flow, where you are no longer thinking, just trusting your movement.

This is creative unlock.

This enables you to fluidly, and almost effortlessly, create.

Energy is crux of everything. We cannot create life alignment if we do not become masters of our own energy.

How can we create if we have low energy?

How can we even think through ideas if we have low energy?

Likewise, we cannot create life alignment if we do not become masters of our own mind. Your mind is at the helm and is what directs your energy.

What would it take for you to be in life alignment?

What is your mind telling you about your energy's direction?

Is it saying you should chill out and watch TV?

If the person you want to be within the life you want to have, is yours, it's at the end of a mile stretch, and you could take it or leave it now, you have minutes, what would you do?

Or would you turn back to the TV?

Or would you move, fast?

Could you summon up the energy?

You have what you need.

You have what you need to create true, exhilarating life alignment.

When to be less than be more

People strive to become more; they go out search for ways to do so. (See Where The Answers Are At ) When really it's about becoming less:

It's about stripping yourself of conditioning that is causing you a disservice for having life alignment.

It's about letting go of particular opinions, beliefs and perspectives that are causing you to have narrow vision.

It's about trashing the junk 'food' that is burdening your body.

It's about shutting out the negativity that is engulfing your attention.

We are animals after all. Look at how nature thrives when left to its own devices.

The only animals that overweight are the ones that we feed.

Nature just simply thrives.

We have become so desensitised to how to live that we now have to work back to what we innately are.

What would be easier for you: Letting go or taking on more?

What if. Ask yourself, what if...

Humour your mind

You can just let go of things that are causing a drain on your resources. Often though, we need to go through a process, as this helps us to prepare and signals a significant point to create the change. This requires taking on more, such as practising meditation and mind minimalism. If you struggle to stick to taking something on, decide upon something which you can let go of. Maybe its an hour's less TV, maybe it's an hour's less internet surfing, maybe it's half an hours less.

Purpose, potential, presence and power

Create space.

How can a tree reach its full potential if it is confined within a pot?

You need space to expand. While you are working back towards being who you innately are, you are also creating space into which you can magnify your purpose, potential, presence and power.

Be mindful. When you realise that you are sitting around daydreaming, externalise what you were daydreaming about. Speak it out loud, write it down. Condition yourself to externalise. Externalising builds up to action and action builds up to creating a movement, in the biggest sense of the word.

Don't leap frog. Take each step. Be present in as many moments as you can remember to be, engage in every task you do (not just going through the motions daydreaming), and trust your movements. If your brain knows what you want, allow your body to have it's outlet, it will take you there.

This is far more substantial and monumental than flitting between doing a bit of this, trying a bit of that.

Solid steps.

Discipline is like momentum. The initial push is the hardest, but once you have done that, you just keep engaged (on each small step) and you roll. Momentum builds naturally to taking bigger action. Its conditioning, use it or lose it. When you are using it, you increase your resistance to it, that step no longer feels hard, so you move to the next level.

Don't focus on everything ahead, that will happen naturally after you focus on that initial taking hold of your discipline.

What can you do to roll the ball?

What can be your initial step?

By externalising your dreams of life alignment, you are giving them roots to take hold.

I guide individuals who don't fit into the system, the norm, on creating life alignment. Finding your purpose, fulfilling your potential. Being different, making a difference. As a coach, my style of communication is interactive. I focus on how to put knowledge, wisdom, information, into action. Not only how to make it work for you, but most crucially, how you can condition you to work for you. A bespoke approach, hitting the core of what it will take for you to overcome, become, achieve, actualize. This is not about what works for other people, this is about what works for you. You are your best guide, learn how to become that.

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