Magic moment are the flip side of feeling stuck. Everything lines up, you’re in the flow and there’s no doubt that you’ll succeed.  The more attention you pay to your body, mind, emotions and spirit, the easier it will be to handle stress when it comes knocking at your door.

Some days the stuck gremlin wins.  Spend some time getting familiar what triggers your stuck monster.  Experience is the best teacher. Let your gremlin show you how to disarm it.  Turn stuckness into successful momentum with the following tips:

Don’t judge the situation! Get curious. Examine your body, emotions, thoughts and your interpretation of what is happening to you. Look at your body/mind/emotions/spirit as your inner team.  Spend time in honest communication with yourself.  This is the essence of the “inner game” that aligns and powers up your confidence.

Physically:  Identify one thing that you’ve been putting off. Begin taking action. Get busy and clear away the old.  Clean out your closet, apply for a job, just get physical.  The more you release physical energy, the more likely it is for something new to arrive. Every small completion opens the door for more energy and clarity to fill the empty space.

Emotionally: Identify the fears, fantasies and feelings that stop you before you get started.  Breathe.  The three “F’s” have one job:  To protect you.  That’s wonderful.  However, often they are protecting you from something deeply buried.  Many of my clients often  hold an unconscious interpretation of life taken from past experience. Once identified, it loses it power to keep you stuck.

Are you resisting?  Feel paralyzed, unable to take action?  Chances are your protective mechanism is in full swing! Take small actions and continue moving forward.  How?  Recognize that feelings are not facts.  They are thoughts felt physiologically in the body.  Focus on loving yourself with every step you take.  Allow yourself to just sit with your feelings.  This isn’t always easy!  That’s why when we are upset, we distract ourselves with relationships, spending, eating or drinking too much.

Mentally: Observe what your mind is saying.  The mind says lots of things, many of which have nothing to do with current reality.  In fact, an unexamined mind is a guarantee that life will be a “mind field” of challenge, drama and limitation. Don’t let your mind take charge.  Pay attention to your mind’s games. It’s fascinating and freeing to observe and evaluate your life as it is unfolding.

Spiritually:  Meditate, contemplate and take the time to become still.  One of my teachers, Twylah Nitche, used to say that true mastery of life only comes when we “Enter the Silence” so that the greater truth, peace and love that passes understanding can be ignited.  Only then can you walk in the world without being taken prisoner by life’s challenges.

There you have it. Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.  Four areas of life to choose from.   Love your stuck monster. Play with it for as long as it takes to uncover it’s message.  As the poet Rumi says, “This being human is a guest house.  Every morning a new arrival…. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”