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How your DEEPEST FEARS sabotage your OPEN-MINDEDNESS

The wonderful news is that good change always brings about growth – something that you should remember when your employees are giving you uphill during a change in your company. Remember that fear and growth go hand in hand and that not every person, as they begin this change and growth process, makes it through to the triumphant end because their fears get in the way, sabotaging the desired end point. Why so? Because few people understand how the mind works or what impact severe thought changes have on the body. Let us explain more.

Everything in this universe is energy and everything is constantly vibrating. Yes we live in an ocean of motion so to say: Pure raw energy is constantly flowing to and through you and as this energy flows into your consciousness, you shape this energy through what you think. This might be the very first time you’re being made aware of this and if so, please celebrate this moment because your awareness of your world and your creative thinking capabilities has just taken a quantum leap forward. Thought is energy. In fact, it is the most potent form of energy!

Your thoughts have the power to make or break you

When you use the word “feeling”, what you are in fact referring to is the vibrational state which you find yourself in. This is why great thoughts cause you to feel good and bad thoughts cause you to feel poorly. You now know that your paradigms, your subconsciously programmed habits, control the way you react to things:

• So, when a completely foreign idea, perhaps a new business concept, is introduced to you and it does not match up or align with what has been subconsciously programmed in you over the years, you immediately move from a comfortable vibrational state to an uncomfortable vibrational state.
• In some instances, your physiological change of state is so dramatic that it is easily detected by the naked eye. Always remember that the body is an instrument of the mind and as such your body language merely matches and mirrors what is going on in your mind.

When you are faced with making a decision around a really huge change, this decision-making event can cause your entire central nervous system to go awry. Because of this, many very real fears (call them concerns if you will) will immediately surface in your mind. This can be a make or break moment for you (and your team if you’re the leader).

Unless you are aware of why this event made you feel this way, to revert to a calm, at-ease, vibrational state, you will reject the idea outright and give it absolutely no further consideration.

Thing is that this might just have been an exceptional idea, an idea which is a true game-changer, but because of the way you are programmed it did not match your model of the world and so you bulleted it out the front door. At what cost? Had you known better as to why this new idea made you “feel” the way it did, you might have handled things very differently and had significantly different outcomes too.

This mind-body-lesson is true of everyday life too

Every day, new ideas are “thrown” at you and given the way these make you “feel” you either accept or reject them. Now is the opportune moment for us as thinking coaches to challenge you on this because if your life and your results are a far cry from what you desire them to be, then you should in fact be actively entertaining those ideas which make you feel so uncomfortable because therein lies growth, new experiences, improved awareness and different results if you choose to act on these ideas. Staying comfortable, keeping yourself in your “known” vibration will only ever give you more of the same and that just well might be much more of the long, winding road to nowhere.

Chris and Suzanne Styles, the founders of Makes You Think, are two of Africa’s leading thinking coaches and professional speakers. They present South Africa’s only dedicated weekly coaching radio talk show, Time to Make You Think, during which they teach listeners how to create more success in their lives and businesses. Through their radio show, they have interviewed a number of the world’s leading mind- and money-life masters.