Why Some Changes Occur Only Slowly
The reason that major changes take longer is that it would be overwhelming to experience these kinds of changes quickly. The pathways that you wish for, such as a pathway dedicated to helping you lose weight, or a pathway dedicated to helping you finish tasks without delay, have their work cut out for them. Decreasing the overwhelm is a gradual process.
This Happens with Me, Too
Sometimes when we’re working on something new, there are repeated pauses as we work toward the goal. I have recently had such an experience. Or, rather, I have been having it for some time, for the reason I’ve described above.
I have just finished creating a webinar to teach people how to do self-hypnosis, and to offer them my course Achieving Emotional Comfort. (There is a lot of work remaining for me to do but it is technical, not creative.)
Why did it take so long for me to create this webinar? At first, I thought I shouldn’t do a webinar at all. I dreaded the prospect because in a webinar there is so much that can go wrong technically; and in a marketing course that I attended, I saw a panel discussion in which two of the most successful entrepreneurs each described appalling technical crashes ruining webinars they were conducting. No way is this for me, I thought.
Another reason I dreaded doing a webinar is because, although I have taught this to many groups, I felt shy about doing it online. But I came to realize that this is probably the best way to help people get relief from stress and achieve emotional comfort, so with some hesitancy, I took a course on how to do webinars.
I began working on mine over a year ago but it has taken me all this time to overcome my concerns. I am now looking forward to it. I will teach small groups, and I will use Zoom rather than a different webinar program so I can see how each participant is doing, just as I have with the groups I have taught.
It Helps to Understand the Process
During this year there have been long pauses during which I made no further progress and, in fact, periods when I stopped working on it altogether and turned to other tasks. Although I felt some impatience during these long pauses, I knew why they were happening. I knew that overcoming a large problem takes time, and that the relevant mental pathways in my mind were working on it. I have at last gained the results I had to wait for. My shyness is gone, and I’ve developed confidence that when technical glitches occur, I’ll just cope with them as best I can. If something bad happens, it won’t be the end of the world. So now, having finished the creative part, I will go forward with the work on the technical aspects. No more pauses.
Take Heart!
I hope that this explanation of how the Tool works will help you if you are waiting impatiently for the results of the discomforts and emotions that you are using the Tool to solve. And if you haven’t tried the Tool yet, I encourage you to do so.
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