Feeling frustrated or stuck?

Have you ever experienced blocks that show up when you are working on a project or idea? Possibly right in the middle of the day, when you have a bunch of tasks to do, but for some reason, you just cannot understand what to do next and you just feel stuck at the moment!

I know I personally feel this sometimes when I am making a deck or I want to finish my tasks for the day.

Just last week, we were planning an event. We were working on a short timeline, so I really wanted to close everything – from the caterers to the DJ to the Bar-tender – as soon as possible.

Then, there would be this point, where after 1 hour of just focusing on planning the event, I would feel stuck and just didn’t have the capacity to come up with ideas or solutions at that moment. For example, after multiple back-and-forths with the caterer, I just couldn’t come up with the final menu!

When I observe this happening, I immediately take a break. Earlier I would try to push through it and just make myself feel worse but that would frustrate me and drain me.

Now, I just do something completely unrelated.

This helps because it widens your focus and shifts your perspective. This is what leads to ideas and solutions

When you are focusing on just one thing, your focus narrows. While this is useful for a bit, after an hour or so of doing the same thing, that narrow focus limits you from accessing other information you may have in your mind or environment.

Something I love doing in such a situation is mundane tasks, like household chores. Even watching mindless television can be helpful here.

The reason it helps when you’re stuck is because:

Washing dishes or folding clothes invites you to be present. These are mildly engaging tasks that bring the racing or stressful thoughts in your mind to a standstill, creating a clean slate for creative solutions. You can create anything from this blank canvas
Doing something you know how to do is comforting. At an unconscious level, it makes you feel confident that you CAN do something. This makes you feel like you can get through what you are working on; you can achieve it!
It creates a break from having to do things to ‘achieve’ an outcome: like a certain amount of money, a certain business goal or completing a project. It encourages you to just be in the moment, in your life. In that moment, everything is okay. This decreases anxiety and worry.
This is also success in itself – to just be in your life. At a soul level, we already know this.
The next time you are doing these tasks you may notice how calm you feel. It’s because of this knowing
You will notice that when you are doing mundane things like showering or washing the dishes, you have the best ideas come through; or your biggest AHA moments – like the solution to something you were feeling stuck in.
This is because your Unconscious mind is active during this time; you are relaxed and mildly engaged at the same time. The combination of these two things allows for brilliant ideas & inspired action to come into your conscious awareness.

FUN FACT: Mundane tasks can create hypnotic states in your mind

Next time you are feeling stuck, instead of forcing yourself to push through, take a break and shift your focus. The solutions will come through with ease.

Love,

Raashi

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