The Three Emotional Blocks That Arise When One is Finding One’s Inner Genius

<h1>The Three Emotional Blocks That Arise When One is Finding One’s Inner Genius</h1>Author: <a title="Dr. Isabella Santorini" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/dr.-isabella-santorini/60043.htm">Dr. Isabella Santorini</a> The important thing to remember when we’re stretching our ability to live a joyful life is that emotional upheaval will happen at some time or another.  This is a given. 
At those times, we realize at a deep unconscious level that we truly don’t need to keep ourselves safe by shrinking from the expression of our inner genius.  We learn that safety actually comes more from expressing ourselves than anything else. 
This is the transition that we all go through.  Trusting in our unique gifts and our purpose often seems foolish.  After all, we have to pay the bills, we want to look respectable and reasonable to others, and we certainly don’t want to fail publicly.  There is a lot of risk to following our bliss, or so it seems to our safety mechanism.
Being caught between creating the life of our dreams and the limits of our emotional safety mechanism, doesn’t feel good.  Remember, we’ve probably just expanded our ability to express ourselves and then, like a recoiling spring, our safety mechanism snaps us back to what it thinks is a more secure way of living.
This can come in many forms.  In my experience, however, the usual blocks to expressing our inner genius are as follows:
Inner Genius Block #1 - Shaming/Self-berating thoughts – This is a specific kind of thinking, beyond just the usual negative thoughts that might wander through our head at any given time throughout the day.  These thoughts are about attacking ourselves, making us feel unworthy, stupid, and ashamed. 
When we think this way, our thoughts are aimed at us abandoning anything that is unfamiliar.  That is all.  The assessments aren’t true and they aren’t even accurate.  These negative thoughts certainly won’t bring up how many times you’ve succeeded in doing something you love, or how many risks you’ve taken that have turned out for the best.  This voice is like a negative child that is scared.  This voice will say anything to get you to turn back.
Inner Genius Block #2 - Panic! – When I don’t buy in to the negative, shaming thoughts, I can feel incredible fear.  When I really sit down and concentrate on what I’m feeling, I can actually tell that my fear isn’t “about” anything.  I’m not afraid of any particular thing.  I’m just afraid.  If I can sit with the fear and just feel it as a raw emotion, it usually leaves fairly quickly, within ten minutes or less. 
Inner Genius Block #3 - Stupor – This is the last attack of the safety mechanism and the most insidious.  It is like we just go to sleep.  We’ll continue to go about our day, but without great focus.  We may even be highly functional about getting things done.  Everything will look good on the surface.
But we’ll know the difference.  We won’t have a spring in our step and life gets dull.
When this happens, the best thing that we can do is get inspired.  Inspiration is the biggest enemy of a stupor.  The moment we get inspired, we get that inner energy back.  And we’re on our way to aliveness again.
 About the Author: Dr. Isabella Santorini used to be a stressed-out doctor, frustrated with her lack of satisfaction in life. For many years, she studied and dedicated herself to mastering the art of transformation. For more information on how to help yourself create the life you love, visit her at: <a href="http://www.inner-genius.com" target="_blank">www.inner-genius.com</a>Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/the-three-emotional-blocks-that-arise-when-one-is-finding-ones-inner-genius-442025.html" title="The Three Emotional Blocks That Arise When One is Finding One’s Inner Genius">The Three Emotional Blocks That Arise When One is Finding One’s Inner Genius</a>

The important thing to remember when we’re stretching our ability to live a joyful life is that emotional upheaval will happen at some time or another. This is a given.

At those times, we realize at a deep unconscious level that we truly don’t need to keep ourselves safe by shrinking from the expression of our inner genius. We learn that safety actually comes more from expressing ourselves than anything else.

This is the transition that we all go through. Trusting in our unique gifts and our purpose often seems foolish. After all, we have to pay the bills, we want to look respectable and reasonable to others, and we certainly don’t want to fail publicly. There is a lot of risk to following our bliss, or so it seems to our safety mechanism.

Being caught between creating the life of our dreams and the limits of our emotional safety mechanism, doesn’t feel good. Remember, we’ve probably just expanded our ability to express ourselves and then, like a recoiling spring, our safety mechanism snaps us back to what it thinks is a more secure way of living.

This can come in many forms. In my experience, however, the usual blocks to expressing our inner genius are as follows:

Inner Genius Block #1 - Shaming/Self-berating thoughts – This is a specific kind of thinking, beyond just the usual negative thoughts that might wander through our head at any given time throughout the day. These thoughts are about attacking ourselves, making us feel unworthy, stupid, and ashamed.

When we think this way, our thoughts are aimed at us abandoning anything that is unfamiliar. That is all. The assessments aren’t true and they aren’t even accurate. These negative thoughts certainly won’t bring up how many times you’ve succeeded in doing something you love, or how many risks you’ve taken that have turned out for the best. This voice is like a negative child that is scared. This voice will say anything to get you to turn back.

Inner Genius Block #2 - Panic! – When I don’t buy in to the negative, shaming thoughts, I can feel incredible fear. When I really sit down and concentrate on what I’m feeling, I can actually tell that my fear isn’t “about” anything. I’m not afraid of any particular thing. I’m just afraid. If I can sit with the fear and just feel it as a raw emotion, it usually leaves fairly quickly, within ten minutes or less.

Inner Genius Block #3 - Stupor – This is the last attack of the safety mechanism and the most insidious. It is like we just go to sleep. We’ll continue to go about our day, but without great focus. We may even be highly functional about getting things done. Everything will look good on the surface.

But we’ll know the difference. We won’t have a spring in our step and life gets dull.

When this happens, the best thing that we can do is get inspired. Inspiration is the biggest enemy of a stupor. The moment we get inspired, we get that inner energy back. And we’re on our way to aliveness again.

Dr. Isabella Santorini used to be a stressed-out doctor, frustrated with her lack of satisfaction in life. For many years, she studied and dedicated herself to mastering the art of transformation. For more information on how to help yourself create the life you love, visit her at: www.inner-genius.com

Rate this Article:

0 / 5 stars - 0 vote(s)

Re-Publish

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/the-three-emotional-blocks-that-arise-when-one-is-finding-ones-inner-genius-442025.html

Article Tags: Inspiration, Personal Transformation, Transformation, Life Purpose, Inner Genius, Following Our Bliss, Emotional Blocks, Genius Within, Create The Life You Love, Live A Joyful Life, Emotional Upheaval, Blocks To Following Our Bliss, Lack Of Satisfaction

Related Articles
Related Q&A

Latest Advice Articles
More from Dr. Isabella Santorini

Some Advice About Giving Advice

By: Gian Fiero | 10/11/2009
Advice is not hard to come by these days, but finding people who understand advice protocol might be more difficult. Read on to find out how to give advice with care and diplomacy

What are the main types of brain training

By: dirk tietjen | 09/11/2009
Brain training is the method of enriching the quality of your brain. It develops the memory power and produces good confidence level.

Brain training is a variety of exercise for brain to improve its functioning

By: dirk tietjen | 09/11/2009
Brain is the key functioning organ of the human body. It helps us to act, think, store and decision making.

Success - The Absence of

By: Ernest Polk | 07/11/2009
If knowledge is power and information is the key to success then why are we not reaching are full potential? Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail. The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to those few who succeed.

4 Tips for a Successful Job Interview

By: Carol Tuttle | 07/11/2009
Job hunting can be tedious and discouraging. Use these 4 tips to keep yourself fresh and hopeful as you seek out the right job for you.

Destroy Negative Thinking Patterns & Become More Confident and Powerful Overnight!

By: Andy Carr | 06/11/2009
There comes a point in every person’s life where you have to begin to consider the patterns that continue to develop in your life. For some, it may be that they are constantly struggling financially, suffering through abusive relationships or end up with friends or girl/boyfriends that don’t add value to their life.

Subliminal Learning - The Future Of Personal Development?

By: Marvin King | 05/11/2009
Subliminal learning is becoming more and more popular, giving people an advantage in all sorts of pursuits. Could it really be the future of all personal development?

Subliminal Positive Affirmations Software Sculptor 3 Review

By: Igor Kheifets | 05/11/2009
No matter how fun experts make affirmations sound, it's still very hard. You need to go over the same affirmation a minimum of couple of thousand times for it to stick and it also takes a great deal of discipline to be focused on a single thought for a long period of time when so many things are going on in our lives. But now, there's a solution!

The Three Emotional Blocks That Arise When One is Finding One’s Inner Genius

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 08/06/2008 | Advice
The important thing to remember when we’re stretching our ability to live a joyful life is that emotional upheaval will happen at some time or another. This is a given. Being caught between creating the life of our dreams and the limits of our emotional safety mechanism, doesn’t feel good. This can come in many forms. In my experience, however, the usual blocks to expressing our inner genius are as follows:

How I Deal With Blocks to Living My Life’s Purpose

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 08/06/2008 | Advice
One of the things that I have found so incomplete in my studies about personal transformation is the lack of addressing obstacles that get in our way as we learn to express our true nature, the genius within. The problem is that when we’re acquiring a new skill, such as using our unique talents and living our life’s purpose, we’re vulnerable, moving in uncharted territory. Having emotional upheaval just makes things worse. Here is what I've found that helps.

Three Simple Steps for Cleaning the Storage Room

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 06/06/2008 | Home Improvement
Life simply works best when we have our physical environment really work. When we’re organized, we can think more clearly, we’re more efficient, and we can take on projects that have lain dormant for months or even years. Whether your storage room is at home or at work, the following advice applies. The key is always keeping the appropriate things in the storage room instead of allowing this room to be a place where things get put because there’s no other place to put them.

Three Simple Steps for Decluttering Kitchens

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 06/06/2008 | Home Improvement
Life simply works best when we have our physical environment really work. When we’re organized, we can think more clearly, we’re more efficient, and we can take on projects that have lain dormant for months or even years. When my kitchen is clean, the whole house seems easier to keep picked up. But a simple back-up in doing dishes, and the whole kitchen can look like a disaster. But the more cleaned out our kitchens are, the easier it is to clean the entire room in 10 minutes or less.

Three Keys I’ve Learned for Reprogramming My Thoughts

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 29/05/2008 | Advice
Thoughts can be incredibly positive, like thoughts of love and appreciation. But thoughts run amok can be destructive. Can they be changed? Indeed they can. But the funny thing about reprogramming our beliefs is that they’re hidden. We really don’t know what we’re going to be working on when we start on this journey. For this reason, I’m an advocate of having help from an expert. When I found my expert, I reprogrammed my thoughts and the benefits have flowed toward me ever since.

Visualizing Works: Three Easy Steps for Beginners

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 29/05/2008 | Advice
Visualizing our success works very well. Most of us have experienced this at least once. But how do we actually practice this technique every day, to create the life of our dreams? I wondered this for years until finally, one day, I decided to take action. I searched until I found a master teacher to help me. What I learned transformed my life.

Three Tips for People Who Were Disappointed in the Secret

By: Dr. Isabella Santorini | 29/05/2008 | Advice
I used the techniques from The Secret with a great deal of dedication, and I didn’t see the results that had hoped for. After I’d all but abandoned my efforts to use the Law of Attraction, I came upon a teacher who helped me understand the principles of The Secret at a much deeper level. When I started to follow his advice, I found that I stopped living in dream land, and started to see real progress.