Breaking Free from Stagnation: Overcoming Personal Barriers
Episode Overview
Recognise the gap between knowing what makes you happy and taking action. Identify invisible forces that make you feel powerless. Understand the role of fear, comfort zones, and subconscious programming. Take conscious action to create new habits. Challenge fears and build a success list to overcome limiting beliefs.
"Your brain will always seek to keep you safe for your survival, not your happiness."
What keeps us stuck in the same patterns even when we know what makes us happy? This episode of 'Happiness Is An Inside Job' dives into the invisible forces that often leave us feeling trapped in cycles of self-sabotage and negative thinking. Lynda Emmett, a Life and Neuroscience Coach, takes us on a journey to understand the gap between our desires and actions.
She shares her expertise as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Rapid Transformation Therapist, offering listeners practical tools to break free from the patterns that hold them back. Lynda discusses the internal battles many face, like the relentless inner critic that can keep us from taking action. She points out that awareness of our habits sometimes makes it even more challenging to overcome our 'stuckness'.
This episode is an exploration of the invisible forces that render us feeling powerless and unable to change, despite knowing what we need to do to achieve happiness. Lynda explains how our brain's primary role is survival, not happiness, and how it often leads us to choose safety over satisfaction. The episode delves into the significance of taking conscious actions and fostering emotional commitment to create new neural pathways.
Lynda highlights the importance of recognising and confronting fears, guilt, and shame that can lead to a cycle of inaction. She encourages listeners to start with small steps towards change, building new habits and overcoming internal barriers one action at a time. So, are you ready to identify what's truly holding you back? Discover how to take that first step towards breaking free from your comfort zone and creating the life you desire.