Well… how do I say this? The unleashed challenge is here!!
And if you’re receiving this, I want to believe that you are at the right place and at the right time.
Welcome to Day 1 of the challenge.
It takes courage to look at the parts of yourself that you’d rather turn away from, and yet, this is exactly where your liberation lies.
The first step to getting unstuck is shifting our perspective about what we call ‘stuckness’.
Instead of seeing it as a problem, I invite you to consider that your blocks are actually part of the solution.
The very resistance you feel is not something to bypass but to be romanced, understood, and integrated.
Today’s Invitation: Romance the Stuckness
Often, when we feel stuck, our instinct is to push away or distract ourselves. But what if we turned toward that stuckness with curiosity instead? What if, instead of seeing it as an obstacle, we saw it as a guide in disguise?
The reality is that the keys to your self liberation often lie within the stuckness itself.
And by doing that, you are able to resolve a great deal of emotional unfinished business that depleted your power.
Here are a few prompts to help you dive deeper:
Every time I connect to this feeling of being stuck, instead of looking into it, what I would rather do is…
How this stuckness manifests itself within me is…
What I often do to distract myself from it is…
When I tune into this feeling of stuckness, what emerges in my body is…
A moment in my past where I remember feeling this exact same feeling was…
What I needed back then that I didn’t have was…
What it would look like to give that to myself today is…
I encourage you to sit with these prompts, journal on them, and—most importantly—allow yourself to feel what arises without judgment. Compassionate emotional presence with yourself is a great deal of how you clear unfinished emotional business.
What was unfelt because it wasn’t safe, needs to be felt to completion for you to be free.
A Visual Practice
If you’re feeling called to go even deeper, try this: Close your eyes and attempt to visualize the part of you that is stuck. What does it look like? Give it a face, a shape, an image. If you could meet this part of yourself, what would it want to tell you? What does it need?
The more you open your heart to this part of yourself, the more energy you reclaim. The energy once tied up in repression and resistance becomes fuel for your expansion.
Please share what emerges for you in the comment section.
How to make the most out of this challenge?
As you dive into this exploration, it is necessary to be gentle with yourself. You might want to treat this challenge as your personal daily retreat for the next 5 days.
If you lean into this with a renewed degree of curiosity and compassion for yourself, it will not leave you unchanged.
The second invitation is to find someone, a friend, a trusted ally in your journey of self liberation that might want to do this challenge with you. This will engage you even more. So don’t hesitate sharing this with people you think might benefit from it.
What comes next
Tomorrow, we work on undoing your repression. Your repressed parts hold power. And that power is what you need in order to create new in your life. That’s what we address tomorrow. So stay tuned for day 2.
Thank you for being here.
In gratitude and reverence,
— Xavier
PS: the doors of my private community The Embodied Light Project open soon for enrollment. Join the waitlist HERE.
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