What Can Cause a Breakthrough?Planning By Suzi Elton At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Have you ever been in the blackest of all hopeless places and within a relatively short time experienced an exhilarating breakthrough? It can be breathtaking in the suddenness and surprise of it! What is it that causes such dramatic and drastic fluctuations in our experiences?

An even more interesting question is: Are there ways to produce such breakthroughs? Are there things we can do that are likely to help us "move" ourselves into that more winning position? Here are a few ideas on how to make these sorts of shifts.

1.) One of the best things you can do is to connect with another caring human. Do not gripe, complain or dump. Choose someone at a higher energy place and ask to connect with them for a short time. Be in a higher energy space with them for a while. If you’re doing this correctly, you will be uplifted.

2.) Be clear on the results that you want. If your thoughts are "muddied" by doubts, fears and indecision, you will get unclear results. When you’re in those dark places, it is often hard to imagine good results. This might be a great time for a pep talk from a friend or a coach. Find a way to bring a clear focus to the results you desire.

3.) If you have a spiritual practice, the best thing you can do during "dark nights of the soul" (and often the hardest thing to do), is to maintain a consistent practice. This will keep you stable better than anything else you can do. It will lessen the intensity and keep you calm.

4.) Staying in your regular routine is also soothing when darkness falls. It is easy to fall pray to depression if you get too far out of your typical pattern.

5.) Be vigilant at quashing negative self talk. Bombarding yourself with self defeating garbage thought is extremely destructive. It may feel that you don’t have control over these thoughts -- but you have much more control that you believe. How exactly is self abuse going to help the situation?

6.) Sometimes something as simple as going to a fun movie can move you out of your funk. This works because it takes your mind off the "problem". When we let the mind go free, it makes it easier for solutions to occur to us.

7.) Uplifting music, motivational CDs, reading positive material -- all these things are fairly guaranteed to help us shift our feelings. This is directly within your control -- and easy to do.

8.) Pay attention to any tendency to be attached to feeling like a victim -- or playing victim. We humans can easily have a "victim default" if we’re not careful about it. If you notice that you resist taking any positive actions to shift your mental state, the Victim Game is probably at play. In that case, to move yourself, it will likely require some conscious choices of some of these actions described here.

9.) It’s important to remind yourself that "this too shall pass". Many of these low points are not even remembered or recalled afterwards. Just keeping that in mind gives you a greater perspective. Think of some of the things like your teenage broken heart or a childhood disappointment you had. At the time these events may have been quite devastating -- but have long ago lost their impact on you. Reminding yourself that many of these low points won’t even remain in your memory later can help you shift the situation.

10.) Take a look at the positive good you want to bring to the world. If you focus on that it can shift your energy. It’s pretty hard to stay in a funk when your mind fixates on positive good. It also often happens that the resources for the good will show up -- and that will shift your energy. Putting your attention on the good of others will make you feel better about yourself.

When we are in need of a breakthrough, there are many things we can do to help the process along. You don’t have to passively spiral downward. More of this is within your control than you imagine. Take control.

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