“When people feel stuck it’s because they’re only using part of their capacity, part of their brain.  When people are hungry they change their life.  How do you get yourself to take new action?  You need new emotions,” Tony Robbins.  We get stuck when we are in the same routine, doing the same things, with the same stimulus every day.  Doing the same thing over and over again doesn’t allow for us to discover and explore new options for problem solving or new life experiences.  We repeat something like 90% of the same thoughts we had the day before—if we do that enough over time that means we establish some pretty firm grooves in the brain.  The same thing can be said with those emotions—if we allow ourselves to feel the same emotions over and over again and are trained to have certain reactions, we will continually respond the same way to similar circumstances.  When we feel the call/need to do something else, that is when the hunger starts to form.  We feel the potential for something else, an awareness of other possibilities sparks in us.  We start to reframe what we feel about things and we ask ourselves if that is what we really feel or if that is what we trained ourselves to feel.  When we feel differently, that perspective shifts, even if it’s the same circumstance again.  With new perspective, we can take a different approach because we see a new option.

We are meant for greatness.  It’s a simple fact that we have all the potential of the universe inside of us.  It’s also a simple fact that it’s up to us what we do with it.  There is the quip where we ask for a cake and spirit/God/Source gives us all the ingredients to make it, the cake doesn’t just appear.  The same is true with any facet of our lives.  If we get the call to try something new, whether a subtle nudge/reminder or the fabric of what we knew being torn, we need to breathe and acknowledge that we need to do something new, that there are other possibilities for us and perhaps the routine we currently follow isn’t honoring all that potential in us.  No one ever said we have to be great at everything, we just need to be great at being ourselves and if we are going to unlock that full potential, we need to have a bigger perspective.  We need to understand time and how we spend our days.  We need to be highly in tune with who we are so we have constant awareness of what is us versus what is a push from the outside.  We need to unlock the full potential of who we are through that connection to self, source, and then to the world around us.  We can’t be pushed by the world, we are meant to influence the world. 

It’s difficult to create that space in a world that demands constant attention and immediate decisions.  We place urgency on things that require none, and it gives us this sense of FOMO if we don’t respond immediately–so we act on impulse rather than instinct.  Those are two very different things.  An impulse is a reaction, often without thinking, whereas an instinct is a natural response from within.  Impulse seeks a quick fix and may feel like an instinct, but the impulse is fleeting whereas the instinct will always be the same.  For example, we see candy while we’re checking out at the store and we decide we need the sugar fix right then and there versus us seeing the candy and understanding we are tired and hungry and need to eat something we prepared at home.  Same thing as far as the need for food in the moment, but the impulse would have a quick, unhealthy solution whereas the instinct tells us to address the problem correctly, not just find instant gratification.  If we are going to elicit new responses from ourselves, we need to get to the feeling behind our current circumstances and then recognize how we want to feel.  It isn’t enough to want to feel it—we need to know how to embody it and become it.  We are never stuck—we are a little stagnate, and we can start the flow again.  How do you want to feel today?