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Help! I'm Stuck. Now What?!

Have you ever felt like you were "stuck in mud" or "spinning your wheels" or "stuck in a rut" that you couldn't seem to escape? Perhaps you feel you are there right now in some regard. If so, then this edition of the Release Newsletter is for you. In this edition we'll explore a simple method for getting "unstuck."

As the old saying goes, "What you resist will persist." It is only through acceptance that we find ourselves able to move past an unpleasant or undesirable situation. Don't believe me? Try "figuring out" a solution to a problem or fighting with an area where you feel stuck and tell me if it goes away. You only end up more frustrated and feeling more stuck with no answers.

So, how do you get past feeling stuck?

Answer: If you feel stuck, let go of resisting the stuckness.

The key to freedom from stuckness is acceptance. When you are in acceptance you are in a very powerful position. From a place of acceptance you can move in any direction. You are unlimited when you are in a place of complete acceptance.

When we fight with ourselves or with situations in our lives that we'd prefer were different, we are literally locking in place the very thing we desire to change. It is like freezing a cup of water. It becomes ice. It can't flow. Before the water was frozen, it could flow in any direction, but now it just sits there—FROZEN AND STUCK.

Acceptance is like pouring hot water over your frozen thoughts and feelings. You can immediately feel them begin to thaw and flow. Judgement is like putting them in a deep freeze. They remain unable to move, change or flow.

Acceptance is an aspect of love. The fullness of love is a deep sense of acceptance, approval and appreciation with a natural and spontaneous tendency towards openness and an attitude of giving.

Acceptance has a comforting feel to it—a kind of healing warmth—and this warmth has the power to melt away and dissolve many years of hardened behaviors, attitudes, destructive patterns and negative tendencies with ease.

Acceptance will dissolve anything. As Lester Levenson would say, "If you have a problem, if you would only love more, the problem would completely disappear." This is because love (acceptance/approval) is the ultimate "de-icer." It dissolves frozen ways of being, thinking and behaving very rapidly.

In modern psychology terms, we could say that those who are "self-accepting" also tend to be more "self-actualizing" than those who do not accept themselves. That is, self-acceptance is a major component of realizing your fullest potential. This is very simple, but is often overlooked and rarely practiced by most people—who are usually found beating themselves up and disapproving of themselves all day long.

There are various ways to move up into this place of acceptance, even when you feel totally stuck, and this edition will explore one of those ways.

"I'm afraid that if I don't make a strong effort to
change the situation, that I will remain stuck."

Sound familiar? Well, guess what? You're already stuck—and fighting with it and trying to figure it out has only locked it in place. It takes courage to move up into acceptance, but that's the only way to become unstuck. You'll never move past any problem by fighting or struggling with it. It will never happen. It will only empower it and make it grow stronger.

A simple exercise in becoming unstuck

Is there an area in your life where you feel stuck?

Would you like to move past that feeling of stuckness right now?

Here's how :

1. Bring to mind that area of your life where you are feeling stuck. Perhaps its a problem you are facing, a financial lack, or a relationship problem.

2. Notice how stuck you are feeling when you think about that particular concern and try to figure out what to do about it.

3. Notice your stuckness, and OWN IT. By "owning it," I mean, admit honestly to yourself, "I feel stuck" and really give yourself permission to feel as stuck as you do—without trying to figure out what to do about it.

4. Now, just for this one moment, ask yourself, "Could I let go of wanting to change this (situation, person, problem)?" Just for right now. Not forever. Just for this one moment. Could you make a decision to let go of resisting or wanting to change the situation or problem you've been fighting with and just give it permission to be exactly as it is—just for right now?

5. And more. And even more. Just for right now, could you let go of wanting to change the situation and allow it to be as stuck as it feels right now?

Did you notice something? If you did the exercise sincerely and let go of fighting with the feeling of stuckness, you will have noticed an immediate and positive energy shift.

Bring your awareness to that problem or situation again. Does it seem more stuck or less stuck? Could you let go of wanting to change it some more? And even more?

How does it feel now? Heavier or lighter?

You will notice that what might have seemed like a major problem or concern for you just became significantly lighter and now feels much easier to solve or resolve. Or perhaps it just feels less urgent where you no longer feel that you "must do something" about it, leaving you with a positive sense of, "It will work out somehow. I just know it."

One thing that this exercise can bring you is a deeper faith that things will somehow work out perfectly—or perhaps a feeling that things already are perfect just the way they are. You may not yet be sure of the solution to the situation, but you if you accepted it instead of resisting it, you would get the sense that the solution will present itself at the perfect time. And, it is this feeling that it will work out that allows it to work out perfectly. There is a solution to every so-called "problem" no matter how impossible it seems to resolve it.

Problems do not exist, except in our mind. When we release our resistance to a problem, it ceases to be a problem. Wanting to know what to do about a problem is holding in mind "no answers." Have you ever lost your keys or forgot a person's name only to let it go for a moment and then the answer came to you? That's what happens. The answer just comes. It is only our struggle with the problem that holds it in place and blocks solutions from coming to us.

Many people have what I call "negative faith." Faith is simply to "believe in something that you feel." Those with negative faith seem to have faith mostly in their negative feelings and believe that bad things will happen to them or to those around them, rather than positive things. Some might call them pessimists. I will simply say that they have "negative faith." They seem to find it easier to believe that things will go wrong and will go the way they don't want, rather than go in a positive direction, in the way they do want.

And then we have those who have learned to release their subconscious programs and who have made a commitment to dump their negativity on a continuous basis. These people are naturally filled with "positive faith" which is characterized by a deep sense that "life is good, and safe, and abundant." And, subsequently, these "positive faith" people end up attracting those positive things to them effortlessly, as if by magic. But, its not magic at all. Likes attract. So, if you are positive you attract more positive, and if you are negative, you attract more negative.

Which will you choose to be? ... Positive or negative?

I invite you to practice this exercise some more on your own. Make a list of the places in your life where you are now feeling stuck. Read each one of those stuck areas aloud, and then give the stuck feeling an opportunity to surface. Then, let go of wanting to change or get rid of the stuck feeling—just for that one moment.

When you do this exercise sincerely, you will notice:

1. Greater movement in your life.
2. Stuck areas of your life becoming unstuck—instantly.
3. Your fears disappearing.
4. A cessation of effort and/or struggle.
5. Increased faith in positive things.
6. Feelings of abundance and greater peace.
7. Positive change in your life without any effort at all.

Well, that's all for now on how to dissolve your feelings of stuckness. If you'd like to learn more, keep reading our newsletters, as we'll be sharing more valuable tips on how to let go of your perceived limits. If you really want to crank up your life, then take the Abundance Course, which will teach you the most effective method known for releasing limits and dissolving negativity at the root—the Release Technique®. It's guaranteed so you have nothing to lose. If you've already taken it and have benefitted from it, then please share it with your loved ones by having them visit our Web site at http://www.releasetechnique.com.

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