Moving Through Obstacles, Real or Imagined, to Reach Goals Using Nature Experience.
Do you give up on your goals and dreams, unsure of why exactly you can’t reach a seemingly simple accomplishment. Do you have mental blockages that prevent you from moving forward? Do you understand the reasoning behind perceived failure. Our brain likes predictability and security, so reaching new heights comes with anxiety and uncertainty. Change can be scary, but it is also what we need sometimes, in order to grow. Also, there are times that it’s not you that doesn’t want change, it is the system that you are a part of that doesn’t want you to change. If you change and challenge the status quo, the system may also need to change. This can be uncomfortable for the system you are in. What would life be like if you could remove obstacles, both internally and externally, to reach the true vision you see for yourself?
Practice self-awareness on your next mountain hike. Notice when you feel yourself giving up. Perservere through self-rejection.
Affirmation: I can keep perservering when I feel like giving up.
Mindful Moment: Sit comfortably seated, with an awareness in posture. Elongating spine, chin up, shoulders back, arms relaxed, focusing on breath. Listening to the breath, with each breath expanding, lengthening, then letting go. Notice an awareness in your self in this moment. Ask yourself, What is my ultimate goal? What is preventing me from reaching this goal? What can I do when I feel like giving up? What thoughts, feelings, sensations, reactions are present? What are you noticing? When you feel distracted or unclear, keep going back to your breath. Is it shallow or full? Lengthen each breath. Then, let go.
Nature Experience: Take a hike and keep going all of the way to the top. Stay aware in each moment of any thoughts, feelings, sensatons, or reactions that are present. Just observe and notice your thinking patterns. With intention, when you feel like giving up, take a moment and observe your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, what blockages are you experiencing. Sit with this deep awareness and listen to your breath. When you are ready keep moving forward all the way to the top. Say to yourself out loud. I am capable. I am strong. I am worthy. I will seek and reach great heights.
Journal Prompt: During my hike today a persistent thought, feeling, or reaction was? What did I observe? How did this effect my ability to keep moving forward? Was I able to keep going to reach the top? What was the view like? Was I able to gain an awareness of the obstacles that I face? How did I keep moving forward when I felt like giving up?
