Get Out of Your Head to Tap Into Life

How It Usually Goes

Whether it’s at work or in your personal life, when you have a big problem you are trying to solve, it’s quite natural and understandable that you would fall back on your strengths, but sometimes what you need to rely on is very different.

Your strengths are familiar to you. They are what have always worked before, or so goes the story you tell yourself over and over.

For many, the go-to solution is to think. To problem solve. Figure it out. Analyze it. Take it apart and put it back together again.

And if that doesn’t work, you begin to worry. Imagining the worst.

All of the above are activities in the mind. After all, this is who and what we are, right? Thoughts happening in a brain, housed within a body?

How else COULD WE possibly navigate challenges in our lives?

Without even realizing it, a great many people unconsciously limit themselves to thinking and believing that all they are is some sporadic activity going on inside a physical brain. A bunch of neurons firing. A bio-computer of sorts operating based entirely upon inputs from past experiences, and the almighty “DNA” that we’re told dictates everything else.

You Are So Much More Than a Brain

We didn’t always think of ourselves in such ways. I’m sure there are cultural historians who can tell the story far better than I can about how we shifted into this view of ourselves along side the move towards materialism, industrialization, and mechanization — towards a technological society.

Thankfully, even now, in our western scientific endeavors, we’re beginning to discover more and more clues that there is much more to the story.

Yes, your brain is complex and wonderful, but is still but one part of a whole being. A whole which is far greater than the sum of its parts.

Some clues to help us expand our view of ourselves:

• We have found neurons existing outside of the brain.
• We have what some refer to as a second (or first?) brain in the systems of the gut.
• The heart sends more “data” to the brain that the other way around.
• The heart has an energy field that extends way beyond the physical body.
• Plants and animals alike have been demonstrated to “sense” when their humans are heading home, without any other physical clues.
• Experiments on such things as energy work, remote viewing, and intentions have all demonstrated remarkable outcomes that defy our materialist view of humans as separate, physical beings.

Imagine the Possibilities

Next time you find yourself faced with a challenge in life or at work, consider going beyond your comfort zone.

Rather than seeing yourself as an isolated and separate physical being… a bio-computer of sorts fighting for resources in a physical world, trying to figure out what you and you alone can do to change the situation… imagine the possibilities that might appear should you see yourself and your place in the world through a different lens entirely.

What would happen if you let go of thinking, and worrying, and problem-solving? Just for a bit of time if that is all that you have.

Get out of your head. If you don’t really know what that means, that’s OK. It’s really just about shifting your attention - AWAY from thinking and TOWARDS being in your body, in your environment, in the HERE and NOW.

It’s really that simple.

But as you might discover, your mind is likely to object to this simplicity. That’s OK too. Because so long as you choose to keep doing the thing - shifting your attention away from thinking and towards being alive in your body in the world, your mind will eventually let go and go along with you.

I Got 99 Problems and “Being Here Now” Ain’t One of Them

I hear you.

This is where things get a bit paradoxical. You aren’t doing this in order to be here now. That is not the goal or purpose. And you shouldn’t go into this thinking you’re only doing it to get the answer to your problems. That doesn’t help either.

All that you are doing is relaxing into who and what you really are. Everything that is important will arise from that source.

So try it. What do you have to lose? Just try it next time you’re feeling stuck. Really seriously stuck and confused.

• Get outside - observe everything, the animals, people, birds, the clouds, the trees… just be alive in the world in the here and now
• Or sit someplace quiet where you can close your eyes, and then simply focus on your breathing… focus on different parts of your body, really feeling and listening to them… start with your toes and feet and move slowly up your body.
• If you have a pet, just stop everything and play or spend time focused on your cat or dog. The key is to focus on being with them. In the present moment.
• Laugh on purpose. For no reason.
• Dance to music that you love. Really be IN your body as you move. Feel everything that is happening all throughout your body.

This may all sound cliché or silly. That’s OK.

This is how you begin to expand your understanding of who and what you really are. It may not be all that comfortable in the beginning. How you respond to this will tell you even more about yourself.

What’s the Point?

Will you come out of this experience with an “answer” to your problem? Maybe, maybe not.

In my experience, the more you are able to really let go of the problem, and the more you are really able to channel your full and true spirit through your body, the greater the likelihood you’ll “discover” a solution. The solution.

The quotes around the word discover are there because the answer was always there from the start. The discovery is what happens when you get out of the way and let it come to the surface.

The other factor at play is the degree to which you can allow the answer to be what it is.

If you are expecting an answer to come in a particular form, or within a specified time, or to be limited to a predefined list of options, then you may be unintentionally blocking the best solutions available to you.

So after getting out of your head and getting into your body for a while, just do your best to be really open on the other side. Don’t be grabby with the Universe. Be open. Attentive. Observant. Respectful.

And listen to your body, your inner/higher self, and to anyone you encounter as you go about your day.

The most amazing things can come to us in the most delightful and unexpected ways, if we are open to those experiences!