Mesmerizing a Chicken - Part 2
Mesmerizing a Chicken – Part 2
Last week, I shared the story of when my brain wouldn't work after I had my injury, and for a long time I would get stuck by any line on the floor I had to cross. My brain would just screech to a halt, and I'd freeze. Like a chicken. Once I started to wonder - could this (the panic, the triggers, the body dysfunction) really be "Made of Thought"- it all started to unravel.
Over time, more and more went and less and less stayed.
In the above example, everything left except for the occasional movement hesitancy. Even that lessened and became variable rather than all the time.
I stopped caring what my body did.
I would get stuck, and because I didn't put anything on it, as it were, I was able to hear my own real-time wisdom guidance in the moment. I stopped ordering up panic and terribleness every time I got stuck by unexpected "barriers".
Then the order of things became:
Cruising along in life. Unexpected Barrier. Stop. Freeze. Wait. New Ideas Arrive.
Things like "Pick your right leg up and shove it across". Or "Touch the wall with your left arm". And "Throw a bit of something across like a bowling ball".
Turns out those were perfect bits of help, for me - from me.
Those actions somehow broke the spell the visual line had on my brain, and I would be able to get moving again. I was unmesmerized. The illusion no longer looked real.
I could see the line for what it was - just a line.
I could also see my thought creations for what they were - just creations.
The line went back to being an inconsequential line, and the thoughts diminished and dissolved because that is their nature.
That's how our own inner wisdom or guidance works. It's in the moment and of the moment specifically for you - for now.
If you are planning a trip, now, for 6 months from now, you'll get ideas about the trip because you are planning it now.
If you are trying to come up with imagined scenarios that might happen in the future, that's harder because it's not based in reality. It's based in thought.
If you are trying to imagine what you would do in the circumstances of someone else's life, that's almost impossible because you aren't them. If something similar happened to you, then you would know how you would handle it and what you would do in those moments, then.
My example is more dramatic, but the mechanism is the same for everyone. It even works when everything about you appears to be messed up and broken.
We have an inner knowing, a guidance system, and sometimes we need to slow down and wait for it to kick in. We can override it or drown it out, but it's always there.
Back to the beginning of this tale, my friend who told me about the chicken story was agog at my story about being a mesmerized chicken. A family member of hers had a bad stroke and was having trouble walking and speaking. He would get stuck at elevators and start to panic. I was floored that my experience helped her understand him better, and at the same time she saw the wisdom and guidance in his experience.
She said that she'd noticed that if she held the door open and placed his walker inside the line of the doors while placing her foot on the gap, he could make his way across.
Her wisdom and his found a workaround for his brain's dysfunction to allow for "elevator threshold crossing".
We are never without our real-time inner guidance wisdom system. It's 100% reliable. No matter what. For everyone.
Even if you don't happen to be a mesmerized chicken.
My transformative coaching work revolves around deep presence, experiencing this peace for yourself, and how to live this way most of the time. It's a conversation that surprisingly changes everything because we go upstream to the actual source. Anything can change, and everything does.
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With Love,
Sara Joy
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