Are you feeling stuck in your life? Life is about loving and being loved. Yet, too often, we shackle ourselves with limiting beliefs, hindering our capacity to fully love ourselves and others. These beliefs, disguised as shields against humiliation and rejection, only serve to imprison us in cycles of self-doubt. By avoiding vulnerability, we deprive ourselves of connection, growth, and understanding.
If you’re feeling stuck and stagnant in your life, these might be the reasons why:
You Aren’t Loving Yourself
Life is about love. Your ability to effectively love others is relative to how much you love yourself. When you constrict your ability to love yourself, meaning when you’re too harsh, cold, sharp or critical, it makes it much more difficult to love yourself.
You’re Closing Yourself Up
The next thing to think about is while you might think that you’re protecting yourself from rejection and humiliation, when you close yourself off from others and you close yourself off from yourself, you’re actually hindering yourself from being vulnerable, transparent, and honest. When you’re inwardly honest with yourself, you’re going to be able to take appropriate action to your own benefit. But if you’re unwilling to be honest with yourself, how can you ever be truly honest with others?
How to Free Yourself
If you’re feeling stuck in your life and want to make a change, find somebody that you can talk to. This could be anyone – a really good friend, a therapist, etc. Admit your own shortcomings to them. When you do that, you open yourself up to receiving help, but most importantly, love from yourself.
For more advice on how to find freedom in your life, read Free for Life: A Navy SEAL’s Path to Inner Freedom and Outer Peace.
Christopher Lee Maher is a former Navy SEAL who endured intense amounts of physical, mental, and emotional stress as a child and during and after his military career. He has taught himself how to free his energy, body, mind and emotions from pain by developing the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of being. Christopher studied Traditional Chinese Medical Practices at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and at Yo San University. He then continued his studies at The Universal Healing Tao System. Christopher is a student of Grand Master Mantak Chia at the Universal Tao Master School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is currently pursuing his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine.