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Originally Posted by demk  Surely these reasons that you arent focusing on what you want are not subconsious blocks then and are just the excuses that arise and therefore an ego process.
There is no point in rooting around inside your mind to find faulty beliefs. What the ego believes or presents you with always has the agenda of maintaining the situation that the ego is comfortable with. Instead, learn to act in spite of thoughts or beliefs. They are always going to be there and will only control you if you let them. |
Feel the fear and do it anyway? I hope those thoughts and beliefs are not always going to be there trying to work against me - I'd rather train and unlearn things so I have the subconscious as my ally.
But, yeah, the subconscious and ego are good at trying to mantain comfort or patterns/learned behaviour and these are things we aren't aware of, or run as defaults when we aren't paying attention. And doing something that doens't jive with them might be part of the training. But how do you pay attention enough so they don't control you? Or rather, how does one feel sufficiently motivated to have a goal start making you act and perceive in alignment with it? You could use will power in spite of the subc/ego stuff but that usually isn't very motivated or is a tougher way to act with all the friction of possible lurking/unknown/unidentified conflicts, I'd say. Learning to act in spite of the rest of one's system is will power and probably works to some degree. However, if one can bring some light to the ego and subconscious stuff, you have a better chance of being flexible and to choose not to use those old patterns or, more able to act on your goals and actually feel motivated that it will work out, instead of having perculations of subconscious/ego stuff that you have to keep side stepping/trying to ignore.
Steve's: "a common culprit is the fear of what might happen if you succeed"
(I haven't mastered multiquotes here)
What about fears of what will happen if one fails? Fearing that one won't actually be able to pull it off? (that was in another thread but seemed to apply to that Steve quote here)