Do you find yourself in a perpetual bad mood these days? Are you experiencing a lack of energy that goes beyond just being tired and instead has you feeling genuinely weary? Are you bored with your life and frustrated with a lack of enthusiasm?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, there’s a good chance that your life is in need of a good spiritual/mental detox.
How many times do you find yourself in situations when you feel like your heart is telling you one thing while your brain is telling you something completely different?
For me, this used to happen WAY more often than I liked and when it did, I hated the angst that came along with not knowing which direction to go.
Why does this happen? How can our internal guidance system get so out of sync with itself? How can our brain, gut and heart all be telling us different things and trying to send us off in totally different directions?
I don’t remember where I first heard the term “masturdate” but I absolutely love it. I love it because 1.) it’s a funny play on words that cracks me up and 2.) it is something that might seem a little strange and awkward at first, but eventually feels sooo good.
Oh come on—this site is rated PG (or PG-13 at the very least)…get your mind out of the gutter (wink!)
No one doubts or questions the value of feeling good. It’s a state that we all strive for and go to great lengths to maintain. Research has shown that feeling good has physical benefits from reduced instances of cardiovascular disease to lower blood pressure and Law of Attraction enthusiasts (of which I am one!) tout the benefits that feeling good has on raising one’s vibrational frequency, and therefore, one’s ability to manifest joy and abundance.
This is all well and good, but here’s the deal–no one feels good 100% of the time.
Ah October–the month when ghosts and ghouls come out of hiding, spider webs are hung as decorations, witches cast their spooky spells and we visit haunted houses because we actually want to be scared. This is the one time of year when we enjoy and even celebrate feelings of fear.
What about the other eleven months of the year though? Isn’t fear a feeling that we normally try to avoid? Isn’t fear a feeling that we normally should try to avoid?
The answer to these questions is yes…and, no.
Yes, clearly we need to take the steps necessary to keep us out of certain kinds of scary situations. Don’t go walking alone at night down dark, scary alleys on the sketchy side of town. Don’t go skydiving from a plane without first making sure that your parachute is packed correctly and don’t poke a sleeping Grizzly Bear with a stick. These kinds of activities are bound to result in the kind of fear that should most definitely be avoided at all costs.
What about other kinds of fear though? What about the fear that many people have of public speaking or the suffocating fear of failure that most of us experience from time to time?