The Great Wall ... and how to smash through it!

The  Great Wall... the wall you keep hitting that keeps you from achieving your goals!

In each of us is an invisible wall that stretches out much further and higher than the one you just pictured in your mind. This wall only makes itself known when we go running towards our dreams and ‘big goals’ and boom, that sucker suddenly appears out of nowhere and we smack into it full force!

All the time you were happy playing small it's existence was never brought into your awareness but it's been there all along lurking in the shadows.

Sort of like the Truman show, he thought he had this wonderful although slightly dull existence, until he woke up and figured out that his life was being played out as a continuous boring loop, the walls containing him were not noticed

The crap news is for most of you this wall was probably built before you reached the age of ten and then we added reinforcing or supporting stones onto it as we grew up!

So what is the key to moving past this great expansive wall and why the hell would we build it in the first place?

Before you can conquer ...you must first size up the opponent...

In other words you need to acknowledge its purpose and function, this wall was created by our minds in the desire to keep us ‘safe’, to not experience the hurt or pain that placed the first stone in the wall then we can accept that the intentions behind keeping it in place are positive even if they appear extremely unhelpful or keep us trapped.

How many of you have tried and initially succeeded in losing that excess 20 pounds, perhaps even kept it off for months at a time but then slowly but surely, you notice the number on the scales climbing higher and higher again? Or you set out to start building your Empire only to find you are distracted doing 'busy' work rather than the tasks or actions that actually move you towards achieving those dreams?

Both of these are examples or how our subconscious mind believes that what we are accustomed to and what has kept us alive, no matter how crappy it might be, will continue to keep us safe, so it will constantly seek to 'reset' back to the familiar. It's job is not to make you happy or give you what you want it's one and only job is to keep you alive!

Think of it as a giant thermostat that regulates how warm or cool your house is, if it gets too hot it cuts out  allowing the house to cool down, if it gets too cold the heating fires up to bring the house back to the pre-set temperature. Although there may be times when your house is too warm or cold it doesn't stay that way for long unless you reprogram the settings.

Well that is very much how your subconscious (or rather the part of your subconscious that is the 'mammalian' brain) works and why you keep hitting that wall! You may be saying this is all well and fine and I've heard something similar to this before yet how many actually know how to smash down the wall or at the very least break through it.... here is a tip, its not will power or even motivation.

Sure will power and motivation can give you some juice to make some short term changes but what good is that if you don't adjust the settings? Sort of like trying to solve the problem of keeping your house at a comfortable temperature by running the heating and air-conditioning at the same time, they are constantly fighting against one another for domination and in the end neither wins!

If you want that wall to let you pass then you have to dismantle it, smash it or demolish it and the quickest way to do that is to 'talk' to the subconscious because that's who built the damn thing in the first place.

 I use a method called Hypnotic Coaching to blast through this wall and although it works better if you have someone guiding you, you can do some of the work yourself. Go ahead give it a try!

1: Use any method you prefer to get into the Alpha state (There is another blogpost that you can use to guide you into this state if you don't know one offhand)

2: Once in Alpha picture the Wall in your minds eye

3: See yourself sitting in front of it and ask what is the purpose and what painful (unsafe) past experience it is now trying to protect you from reliving.

4: Acknowledge the experience and then shift your mind to how you overcame it or the positive that came from it.

5: Ask if you can let the negative event go? Are you willing to let it go now? If not now when can you let it go? Even if you get a date in the future the process of releasing it has already begun and the subconscious has acknowledged it is willing to release it.

6: See the wall starting to crumble and fall down in your minds eye until there is a space for you to walk through it. To strengthen this you can imagine the Goal or desired outcome on the other side where you can now step into being or doing it!

If you are still struggling or would like help to be guided through this clearing and healing experience please get it touch on my website https:/www.sandiecamara.co.uk