Don’t Play Small: Discomfort vs Release Thinking

You don’t want to feel like you played small in this life… in all areas of your life.

Whether it’s how you figure out the best path for you and your loved ones, or how you nurture the incredible mind and body that you have for your journey on this planet.

Playing small means we don’t give something another try. Or we don’t say the things that are stirring deep inside. It means not putting something we believe in out there for others to witness.

There is energy stirring inside you, waiting to be released. If you don’t give it a channel to be expressed in this physical, tangible, observable world, it becomes like a frenetic, ungrounded static noise that you can’t explain or name.

The energy of playing bigger than you’re used to can feel uncomfortable, even scary.

The way to harness this energy is to re-frame it.

Move from Discomfort thinking to Release thinking

Discomfort thinking gets us to assess the feelings we have as ‘bad’. This can actually lead to more stress based neurochemicals and constriction of blood vessels that keep us paralyzed or repeating our history.

Release thinking takes the sensations you feel about showing up in a new way and re-frames them into knowledge that your body is actually priming itself into a powerful, action-oriented, wakeful state of learning.

You can even literally picture taking how you feel and putting it into a new frame - one that represents excitement and opportunity.

You can use the butterflies you feel as an indicator of an opportunity to release energy that is building up.
This is where change and transformation begins.

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