The New Year is a great opportunity to set goals and achieve change. Whether it be to quit smoking, get fit, lose weight, write a novel, complete a degree or buy a house … success depends on our willingness to make change.
We might be willing to change on a conscious level but unwilling at a subconscious level, especially if the problem is a crutch we have come to rely on.
Once we are aware of and understand subconscious blocks, we can work on letting them go. It is difficult, but not impossible.
A while ago, I worked with a university student who came to see me when she was in the last semester of completing her degree. Previously she had been a diligent student but now found herself unmotivated, avoiding study, procrastinating about assignments and generally sabotaging her ability to complete her courses to graduate.
In her Kinesiology session we found that for the past few years her goal had been to complete her degree. When that goal was imminent, she began to sabotage her success because she feared life in the “real world” as a graduate. She subconsciously wanted to stay in the “safe world” of university. Read More…
