I have a Mental Block!

More accurately I should say I had a mental block.

It occurred to me over the weekend when I visited our local Fall Arts and Crafts Fair in Gainesville, FL.

There were so many wonderful Artist’s there and a couple really caught my eye.

Especially one of them.

Let me describe what I saw, think of a child’s block, put it on a shelf and name it “mental”.

There you have the “mental block”.  Ok, you see why I thought that was clever.

I began thinking about the larger thoughts behind this phrase.

It hits me like a “ton of bricks”; I had a mental block.

When I began wishing for my life to be different, craving new surroundings, and created a white hot desire to have this new life I ran into several mental blocks.

So, exactly what is a mental block.  It is simply a term we use to describe our inability to think.  This can be our coping mechanism to repress painful thoughts, an inability to focus, or calm down.

This can lead to a lack of creativity and many people believe they are not creative because of these normal thoughts.  In reality we are all creative, all the time.

We have placed ourselves in boxes.  These boxes were created when we were growing up and reinforced through conditioning and programming throughout our lives.  We feel very comfortable with our mental blocks.  These are the toys we most like to keep near us at all times.

How do we stop these mental blocks - how do we change them.

We first have to realize we are an incredible spiritual thinking being that is very unique.  We are extremely creative.  And, we have boxed ourselves into the life we now live.

To break free - we have to dream again as we did when we were a kid.  We have to ignore becoming to involved with comforming - to appear normal.  We need to play more and dream about what we really want.

Mental blocks is our belief system.  The only way to change a belief is to challenge it’s existence.  It was put there to protect us from harm.  Perhaps the threat no longer exists and the belief has morphed into a habit that is really killing our creativity and our potential.

This week take a few minutes each day and play!

Go out on the swing set and just swing - without a care in the world.

Go pick up some child blocks and build something.

Go and do something out of the ordinary.  Drive a different way to work, smile at everyone you meet, make them think you are up to something.

Because you are!

You are up to raising your level of awareness, raising your level of creativity and raising the bar on your own results.

Comment on what you are going to do this week to get the thinking juices flowing again.  Blog about that here.  I really want to hear from you.

What am I going to do — I’m going to get my blocks out and build something.  Just for the fun of it!

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