Distractions

Distraction: a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.

Take a look at this additional definition of distraction.

Distraction: extreme agitation of the mind or emotions.

Hmmm…

Do your beliefs and thoughts cause you to be distracted from your desired life?

Does your inability to understand emotions and how to balance your emotional state keeping you from living a fulfilled life?

When the nervous system is dis-regulated, the distraction of ‘extreme agitation of your mind and emotions’ will most likely ensue.

There is much information available on the nervous system, as to how it operates when dis-regulated verses when it is regulated.  There is great insight into knowing how your physiology operates differently, dependant on the state your nervous system is in.  Your brain is also operating differently when it is dis-regulated verses regulated, affecting how you are able to take in information, process information, and make decisions.

When dis-regulation is occurring, the brain’s ability to take in information is drastically diminished, therefore, awareness of choices available are automatically minimized.  To ‘literally’ have an open mind requires a regulated nervous system.  To be more informed requires a regulated nervous system.  To be aware of more possible available choices, requires a regulated nervous system.  In knowing this, is it not obvious that the first steps to making changes in your life require that you regulate your nervous system?

Is this not good to know, and gives you the awareness that regulating your nervous system is the first step required for the changes you desire in your life?

As is for most everyone, it is a dis-regulated nervous system that limits your ability to live your life as you choose putting and is putting you in a constant state of basic surviving.  When you are surviving, you are not thriving.

Surviving: continuing to exist; remaining intact.

Thriving: prosper; flourish.

These are two very different ways of experiencing life.

Surviving within thriving would be a goal worthy of anyone’s investment.  Take this in.

Once you recognize and acknowledge that you are operating from a dis-regulated nervous system and do the work to regulate your nervous system, can you then choose what you want to experience in your life.  It takes a deep desire for one to want changes to live a life of choice and to be able to move into this step.  Just like leading a horse to water to drink, the horse ultimately has to be the one who decides to drink or not.  Be the one that leads yourself towards the cup of life, as well as the one who drinks from the cup of life.  (The usage of the cup of life will be the topic of another article.). This is empowerment.

It takes great awareness of all that you believe, think, feel and do, to know what is dis-regulating your nervous system in your life.

This is more of an observational task that one undertakes.  In order to regulate your nervous system you must know what is causing dis-regulation.  Another way of putting this is, anything that causes your nervous system to go into a dis-regulated state is, at this point in your life a cause, a distraction.  And it is a double whammy distraction by the very fact that it hits on both meanings of ‘Distraction’.  That is the perfect proverbial, ‘stuck between a rock and a hard place’.  Hmmm…worth understanding.

Whatever, whether it is a person/s, place/s, object/s, habit/s, &/or your belief/s, thought/s, word/s, action/s, and behaviours that ‘distracts’ you from what you truly desire, by letting go of them, allows you to place your attention on the life you desire.

Now is not the time to be ‘distracted’ by the life you desire.  Not just yet.  Here’s why.

Just like building a house upon a stable foundation determines the liveability of that abode, establishing your foundation within, by regulating your nervous system is a critical step for the changes you are looking for in your life.

By investing in the knowledge and understanding of how a healthy nervous system operates is not a waste of time.  Just as the builders of a house have to educate themselves on how to build a strong, stable foundation, you have to educate yourself on how to regulate ‘YOUR’ personal nervous system.

The basics that are required to understand for building of a house will be applicable to all houses.  Yet if someone whats their house to have particular features there is additional knowledge and understanding required.  So it is  the case with each individuals nervous system.

What is common for everyone, you included, and what is specific to you and your needs to live a life in a regulated state?

Those are just a few of the questions to ask yourself as you go on this journey towards a fulfilled life of ‘your choosing’.

Are you ready to lead yourself, by investing in yourself, towards ‘your’ fulfilled life that is held deep within ‘your’ heart & soul?

In answering this question some of the distractions you are currently experiencing will be removed which will allow some forward momentum in the direction of your fulfilled life.

What one small step can you take today that supports your nervous system?

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” is a Chinese proverb that encourages people to start small and keep moving forward. It’s often attributed to the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. 

‘A life of fulfillment begins with a single choice’…and another single choice, and another single choice, and….

Fulfillment: the meeting of a requirement or condition.

What are your requirements for a fulfilled life?

Requirements: a thing that is compulsory; a necessary condition.

What conditions do you need to fulfill your requirements?

Conditions: have a significant influence on or determine (the manner or outcome of something).

When and what choice will you make today to put into motion the fulfilled life you want to live?

Choice without ‘distractions’…