The Monkey Bar Method
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"At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want."
~Lao Tzu
3 Keys for Unlocking Powerful Cosmic Shifts
Key #1: Look in the Mirror
There is an area of your life that is asking for you to “go another route”, the route less taken or perhaps never explored. If you don’t know where life has certainly been dosing out the signs. Take inventory. This route may elicit fear, challenge your belief in yourself and ask you to dig deep as to what you really, really want and to be honest where you may be settling, tolerating or playing it off as “good enough” when you know it simply isn’t. You are ready for an uplevel but it comes with a cost. The cost of being ok with being uncomfortable with the unfamiliar. The inevitable results of moving in new terrain and trusting yourself to find your way are uncomfortable at first. Freedom is available to you in new ways you cannot imagine but from the old vantage point it simply cannot be experienced if we are unwilling to step away from the comfy familiar long enough to see what lies on the other side.
Where is it “not working” by evidenced by how you feel physically, emotionally and energetically?
Where is your intuition trying to give you a new route for your desire?
How can you open to this new route?
Key #2 Let the emotions be in motion
Emotions will surface and they need an exit route more than they need analysis paralysis and judgment. Some of these emotions have been traveling with us for a bit and are just ready to find a retirement home. Some are arising because we are meeting our next version of ourselves and our emotional system is resetting and rebalancing. We cannot move into our next version with our emotional selves left behind or frozen. We process life through our emotions and body. We need our emotional guidance system. It is a vital tool for our evolving Genius lives. Give your emotions a chance to move through you: cry, dance, practice yoga, stomp and physically let yourself have a tantrum-just move them out. We tend to fixate on the emotions we normally tend to avoid or seek so ask yourself what emotions are present and then ask what else? Is there excitement beyond the fear? Is there anger under the sadness? Don’t worry about why you feel them-just let them have an expression. Watch my video on emotions for a deeper dive.
What emotions are present now? Keep asking. What else?
How do your emotions want to move? If they were a sound, an energy a shape-what would they be?
How can you open your heart to the experience of your emotions?
Key #3: Take one step
The only way to move through these powerful shifts is to well…move. Fear wants to stop us and have us retract. This is how the mind “keeps us safe”. But, you are inherently safe because you are creator of your life. Trust in the intelligence of life and your own deep wisdom that knows that life is not happening to you but for you. Sink below the fear to the bones of what you know you desire and be willing to take a step in the direction of love of yourself, your desires and the path that brings you greater freedom, joy, fulfillment. Sometimes we minimize the current suffering we endure when faced with the fear of the perceived suffering of change. Each decision is an opportunity to close from fear or open towards what we desire. Keep stringing actions of opening and trusting and before you know it, you are out of the comfortable discomfort of where you have been and into the experience of a more resonant place. Don’t let fear keep you from what life has opened for you.
What small action reverberates that “I trust myself” and “I align with what I desire”?
What action continues to feed my fear and give it power?
What could be on the other side of the fear? What is the alternative story?
The Hidden Gift
These times remind me of a story of my daughter when she was around 5. She desperately wanted to traverse the monkey bars but she was frozen in fear. She would stand at the jungle gym and contemplate for literally an hour over and over again for months. I would tell her how safe it was, that I was there to catch her, that she could just let go if she wants to get down-all the logic was there. The safety promise was there and yet she had to decide it was the time. She was all caught up in her head and she didn’t trust herself one bit. One day she took the chance and she made it across! And boy was she so proud of herself and overjoyed.
When we are in these times we crave security, we want to know “it will all work” out and we look seek this externally or in ways that minimize our risk in our investment in our desires. The most certainty we will ever find it within. When we decide that our body wisdom knows and and will always know exactly how to meet life moment by moment then the best way for have that security is to stay connected to ourself and our inner guidance. No one can give us better data that our own guidance! This is the gift of these times if we accept it. What better way to live a genius life than tethered to our inner trust and knowing! It is there for us friends. I meet it every time I take a leap.
The Essential Genius Living Tools Video Series
Did you know you have a real time intelligence system at your disposal that gives you directions just like a GPS? This tool is a blend of our intuition, creativity and self-care wisdom that far supercedes what the mind can do for us. Yet, many people often push away these emotional informants from a misunderstanding about their intentions. The truth is that our emotional guidance system is working for us- watch my latest video to learn how!