Locked up, Free Yourself!
In this article, we talk about freeing yourself from being locked up in your head! Life is about experiencing, experience every minute.
Locked up? Free Yourself, Create Joy, Interact!
Thank you so much for visiting Power of a Positive Mind, this is Ryan Critchett. Today I'd like to talk to you about something that can help you to really enjoy your life, to get out of your box, to interject into your reality more so that ultimately you can shape the kinds of experiences you have. I was in the post office the other day, and that place was completely packed! I was standing in line with about 20 other people and can you guess what kinds of interactions were taking place? NONE. No one was talking, no one even looked at each other, in fact everyone, because the room was very open and we could all see each other, was very rigid. I am a person who loves people, so I have identified this as one of my Human Needs, to have positive interactions with people on a consistent basis, but I wasn't always like this. I used to be trained to point out people's faults and how I didn't like what they were doing, as a lot of society today is also trained to do. I never really spoke out, because my beliefs didn't let me. I never really interacted with other people in a positive way consistently because of the way I was conditioned. That all changed when I realized that change starts from you, you take command, you make the decision and it doesn't start on the outside, it starts with your nervous system.
Anyway, I thought to myself, "what the heck is going on in these people's minds right now," and as we know, ask a question to yourself, you'll get an answer. I started to think about how when you're a kid, and you're in the store or the post office, how Mom or Dad tells you to be quiet, to not express yourself, to stay in a box. It almost seems as if Mom and Dad are saying that people will not like you if you are expressing yourself, talking to them, being alive. Maybe the message we got at that young age was that we would get in trouble if we were being ourselves, truly experiencing life the best way possible. I'm sure there is more, but the point is what does that do to a person long term? Society, at least in America, is in a box! People are in a box only because of what is happening in their minds. At a neurological level, there are processes taking place that inhibit true expression, living in the experience, and getting out of life what I believe we all truly deserve. So, that's it, that's what I feel, now I have identified the problem.
Yea Right! Maybe if I was a psychologist, trained to focus on what's wrong with people, I'd end there, but because I consider myself more of an agent of change and someone who studies how to help people become "right," I want to explain to you how you can free yourself from these barriers to truly experience life at it's peak!
Become aware of the fact that most of the things stopping you from being happy around other people, expressing yourself, and enjoying every moment in your life, is the way that you were trained, and the way that the majority of other people are! This goes on, in the form of conflicts inside of your brain. Think about the thoughts you think in those situations, or in any situation where you could actually become alive? Get rid of the thoughts that limit you, train new beliefs and start interacting! Trust me, people are more worried about themselves than they are you, so don't feel weird about being alive, which leads us to step number 2!
Your Assignment. Your mission is to, in all social situations or chances where you can be more "alive" in public, to interact with as many people as you can. Don't worry about how they respond, pay close attention to how that makes you feel. You may get some results that completely eliminate any beliefs in your mind that were there prior, limiting you from freeing yourself around other people. Start communicating! You can do the small talk thing.. ya know.. "nice day outside huh?" Or you can do what I have found to be incredibly powerful, but yet so fundamental, Compliment People! Say things like "Oh, I like your shoes," or "that's a great color tie." If you engage another human being in speaking about themselves, or give them some kind of unexpected compliment, you will 98% of the time get a joyous response. You will feel the energy in the air between you and this other person. Energy transmits through words, gestures and phrases. This is why you can be in a situation, walk away from it and say things like "there was a bad vibe." We know this fundamentally, but do you really know what is happening at a small particle, unseen level? ENERGY. Moving on to Step 3.
Condition and Reinforce. Now that you have a new pattern, a new way to behave, a new way to be around all people, do it consistently. Do it every single time you are around others. If you get any negative responses, just know that the person who gave you that response is the one who has the internal conflicts, you are now free. Keep going, conditioning it into your brain until it becomes automatic. Now, this will be the muscle memory response that you have programmed into your brain.
Imagine what this will do for your life? You may not notice someone offering you a million dollars after two days of being this way, but let me let you in on a little secret. One of the major contributors to extreme, natural and lasting joy in your life is to simply interact with other human beings in a positive manner. This can change your life. Thank you so much for reading. Remember, you don't have to be locked up from the chains in your mind, built probably from someone else or some experience that happened years ago. You have the ability to shape your own life. You actually have more charge than you think. Pull from within you your personal power, the power you feel inside of you from reading this article. Reach out to others, be joyous in your interactions and free yourself to experience life in an extraordinary way!