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After a recent presentation a listener said it had helped her for me to talk them through it, otherwise she wouldn’t have been receptive to the subject matter. She described how she would have rejected the whole thing as “weird,” and the way she said that word really helped make it clear what purpose it serves for her.
[Obstacles part 3 of 4] In a comment on part 1 of this obstacles series, Donna referred to an awareness of an “often-repeated pattern in my life. Same song, second verse.” I don’t know if this is exactly what she meant, but it reminded me of an often repeated complaint I hear from clients. “This issue/block/problem has resurfaced. I worked very hard on this a while ago and expected to be done with it once and for all. Now I feel like I’m right back where I started.” Having uttered this a time or two myself, I know it can feel very discouraging.
Fear of failure and disempowerment is easy to understand. Occasionally, though, I will get a question from a client about fear of success and being powerful. “Who doesn’t want that?” they ask. “Why would I want to avoid being a bigger, better version of myself?”
[Obstacles - Part 2 of 4] In part one I suggested that when obstacles are seen as opportunities, their potential val
ue becomes more apparent and it’s easier to be open to them. Now I would like to offer some other ways of looking at these blocks and struggles that can change your relationship to them, allowing you to deal with and move through them differently.
[Obstacles - Part 1 of 4] For many of us, after we’re finished with school, we never want to see another test again. Then the “real” world hands us one obstacle after another, and we’re told to look at it as a challenge, or that God is testing us.