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How To Overcome Any Obstacle On Your Path and Use The Obstacle To Actually Fuel Your Dream

After a recent newsletter on How To Believe In Your Dream, A lady named Donna wrote me and said:
"Paul, I know what my Dream is and I've been trying so hard to reach out and grab it...and make it happen and I'm at wit's end––I seem to be doing all the right things, so why isn't it happening? I'm visualizing it, I'm writing down my ideas, and I'm stuck. What now?" Maybe you've experienced the same type of feeling as Donna has. The difficulty here happens because the "Mind" (which "thinks" it's in control) is trying to grasp what is outside its control––that being how Nature and flow REALLY work.

THE SKIPPING RECORD EFFECT
Many people who are climbing the ladder of success and the ladder of awareness eventually get caught up with the "mind-trap" of achievement and motivation. In other words, they think that the solution to their problems will come from the same place that caused them––the Mind.

This is where people get stuck...they're using their Mind, instead of their intuition or their Spirit. The same old thoughts cause the same old results and the same old feelings come up which create the same old thoughts and...you get the idea.

Writer Alan Cohen says it well in his book, Dare To Be Yourself: "Your problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness at which you perceive them. The answer is always on a higher level than the problem. That is why the problem exists in the first place - to draw you to higher awareness.
The solution to life's challenges is Spiritual, not material." What Alan means by Spiritual doesn't mean religious. What he means is a level of awareness of your True Self. A level of understanding that lies outside the Ego-Mind.

WHAT CAUSES THE SKIPPING RECORD?
If we're striving too hard for something in our lives, that usually means there are feelings buried underneath our conscious understanding. The secret is to realize that the feeling hasn't yet been addressed!

This feeling has tremendous power, but it's trapped. For years, I struggled with striving to get more, do more, be more. What I kept missing was the simple solution––the FEELING within me, I almost never addressed.

Then, I learned from a wonderful Soul how to listen to this powerful source of wisdom, Love and understanding within me.

What I learned was that the endless cycle of achievement and striving was actually my own pain being covered up. The more I strived the worse it got.

One day in 1997, she taught me that this pain was actually fear––fear I didn't even know was there. This was a revelation to me. She asked me if I was willing to find out what this feeling was trying to tell me and she helped me understand what the trapped feelings were trying to tell me for years. What I learned was they needed EXPRESSION––they needed to be HEARD. (and that they had a positive intention all along!)

Once I knew these feelings needed to be heard, I was able to connect with them, embrace them and free them. This lesson was so essential to my own personal evolution that I've never forgotten it.

Now, even when I experience a "down" day, I'm able to connect with my feelings and KNOW that despite any "storm", I am FREE. Free to Live Life––and I am grateful.

This technique is called the Essence Method and it was created by Susan M. Castle. If you would like to learn more about Susan and how the Essence Method can help you, click on: http://www.relax-online.com/EssenceC.htm

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