The Bridge Between Fear and Flow: Find Your Groove Again
Groove has always been the password on my iPad. I’d enter it every day before class began to access my music. Standing in the corner of the studio with my back toward a room full of dancers, I could feel their energy waiting for me to begin. I’d take a deep breath and type the word groove. It was a ritual of sorts, and it connected me not only to my music, but to the possibilities of what I might create.
Sometimes I had nightmares that I was just standing there frozen, unable to unlock my music, standing on the bridge between fear and flow. In music, the bridge connects one section to another, carrying the listener to a less familiar place. That change in the status quo creates tension, but it also elevates the experience, amplifying anticipation, curiosity, and offering a new perspective before returning to the familiar refrain.
In life, fear often plays that same role. Fear creates tension. Fear signals transition. And fear, if you are willing, can also invite curiosity. When we meet fear consciously, it becomes the bridge from rut to groove, from stagnation to movement, from habit to possibility. In this analogy, you are the dancer and life is the song.
So if repetitive unconscious thoughts create our ruts, what keeps us from finding our groove? What’s standing in the way? Well, that’s where our inner blocks come in. The veritable trolls that make it difficult to cross that bridge. These invisible forces dig our ruts and hold us there, whispering doubts and distractions that keep us from moving forward. I call them Lisa’s. Not just because they happen to be my initials, but because they’re often as automatic and familiar as our own first name. They show up without us even realizing it. Habitual patterns that feel like just who we are. It also helps me own it. Because at the end of the day, I’m the one creating them. And when I take responsibility for that, I also reclaim the power to change them.
L is for limiting beliefs, the ingrained convictions that quietly dictate what we think is possible. I is interpretations, the stories and judgments we attach to what happens. S is for saboteur, the inner critic that feeds on fear and self-doubt. And A is for assumptions, the expectations that the past will repeat itself. L-I-S-A, Lisa, these are the blocks that disrupt our flow. The good news, once we name them, we can begin to tame them and cross the bridge from rut to groove.
If this has tweaked your interest, this is an excerpt from the book that I’m writing called I Get To: The Power of Energetic Choice. In it, I’ll break down limiting beliefs, I’ll break down interpretations, I’ll break down saboteurs, I will break down assumptions in order to clear the way for access to higher energetic choice.
To be continued…
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