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The Power of Action
Thoughts by
Susana Sorí
Published Aug. 2006, HRA
Journal, AZ
I have always been driven to action: Action as play and entertainment;
Action as learning; Action as commitment and duty. Yet, the greatest reason for action in my life is using action to break
through the energy of fear and ‘imagined’ limitation.
Recently, a few days after completing a
session for a client, she wrote:
' When I heard about the positive action I was to do after my session,
I was lit! I was so excited and happy. Then, a week later, I was feeling
sad and resistant to the idea that a positive action would solve my issues
and make me happy. I got madder and madder at myself and finally refused
to do it. I just don’t believe in it. I do not believe that there is a
single act (positive action or not) that I can do that will change my fate
or will make a positive difference in my life. I do not want to create an
expectation inside myself just to be disappointed once more.'
Like this client, there are times when many of us feel stuck and, for good
reason, we do not feel like anything we do can move us forward. Here is
what I responded:
'I understand that you were feeling good about doing your positive
action and then, as the time approached, you felt sad and then angry at
yourself. You wrote that you do not believe in doing “positive actions”
and that coming from your sense of honesty, do not believe that creating a
mind belief (positive or otherwise) will affect your future outcomes. That
is a valid choice, and if this is what you believe, I honor it.” I would
however, like to say some things about ‘positive actions’ that have not
been mentioned…the practical level - nothing mysterious.'
Positive Actions have a very practical level – nothing mysterious.
It is my experience that most of the time, we do not shift, change, grow
or move past our limitations by just thinking about our issues, discussing
them or sharing them with others, even counselors. This is often because
in the process of going to these places, we make these issues so important
that we have difficulty letting them go.
It is difficult to move forward if we are
constantly looking back.
What I find useful and have seen this
demonstrated time and again, is the power of action, of effort, of doing
work. When a person takes even a small step beyond their limiting belief,
for example, they begin to destroy that limitation. It is by doing the
action, taking the step, expressing the intention and taking one’s power
by one’s own will that one achieves this. This is not magic. This is not
trying to alter destiny by snapping one’s fingers. It is not about
expectations. What it IS, is a bridge allowing oneself to take a step
across of what holds one back, and the result is transformation, a new
freedom, a new choice. It is accomplished through effort and intention
coming together. This is what “positive action” is about. It is my
experience, and that of my clients, that as we change, learn and
transform, action does affect our destiny, even if it is only at the level
of how we respond and therefore how we experience what happens to us.
When we choose change (by doing the positive action) we may be excited.
Then, as we move towards it, our old patterns, limiting beliefs and fears
can overwhelm and paralyze us…This is exactly the moment we must choose to
own our step forward. This is the crisis point, the bridge which we must
cross to step forward into change.
…This is exactly the moment we must choose to own our step forward.
This IS the crisis point, the bridge, which we must cross if we are to
step forward into change.
All text and titles are Copyright © 2006 by
Susana Sorí. All rights reserved.
Susana Sorí is a Certified in the Masters Program of Luminous Healing and
Energy Medicine by the Four Winds Society, Resonance Repatterning®, and Meditation and
Yoga. In addition she is a member of the International Association of
Counselors and Therapists and the Society for Shamanic Practitioners. Ms.
Sori is a co-owner of Spirit Unleashed Programs and Publications and is
currently engaged in writing a book on the power of the breath
and
transformation.
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