It seems that more and more often people are coming to see me because they are feeling overwhelmed with life. They feel trapped, anxious and stressed with many “obligations” – feeling pulled in 12 directions at once. This article is about a technique I often use to help my clients find ease within this kind of stress. I want to share this technique with you in the hope that it will give you a practical way to experience how free and peaceful you really already are. All it takes is your imagination.
The Force Field
Imagine with me, for a moment, that you have this beautiful spherical force field (FF) around yourself. You can call it whatever you want; your aura, your ethereal egg or anything you like. (I grew up in the 70s and 80s with Star Trek and Star Wars and so Force Field is what comes to my mind) And this sphere around you is incredibly beautiful. It’s made out of pure energy, is transparent and glistens in the light like a soap bubble.
But your FF hasn’t had much attention or maintenance in a while (if ever) and you might not have even known it was there. Over the years it’s acquired some minor damage: some scratched hazy spots and hairline fractures and it’s through these gaps in our sphere, we’ve let outside stuff in; stuff we don’t like inside: other people’s opinions and judgments; other people’s agendas, other people’s feelings- basically other people’s stuff.
This “foreign” stuff has been influencing us and causing us to care so deeply about the possible judgments/expectations of others, judgments from others, and judgments of ourselves, We weren’t born with the belief that there’s something wrong with us. We allowed that in… and believed it.
So we’re simply going to give our beautiful, but weakened, sphere some attention. We’re going to polish it.
Now imagine that you have a magical (or “spiritual” if you prefer) duster and you begin to polish your FF. As you do, it gets shiny; shinier than anything you’ve ever seen. It sparkles like a million diamonds and refracts the sunlight creating the most beautiful colors, some of which you didn’t even know existed. And as you continue polishing, the scratches and fractures disappear. The sphere glimmers even more radiantly in the light as you continue.
Are you still with me? Let’s keep going.
Now that this Force Field is repaired, we’re going to remove all the stuff that doesn’t belong to us from inside and so create our own clear and safe space. This is essentially easy because the force field is strongly cooperating with us. It too, wants to function better and is tired of working at less than optimum efficiency.
As you count from 5 down to 0, everything inside that you don’t like realizes its being asked to leave. And because its your FF, it gets ready to go. It might make a bit of a fuss, but it can’t ignore your request. It’s your force field. The unwanted clutter will turn into powder, (or white smoke or butterflies or anything you want), and dissipates or flies out of the FF.
“5-4-3-2-1-Now.” All of the stuff inside is gone. And you are inside feeling peace. A wondrous peace that you’ve had glimpses of but have never felt totally before. Can you imagine it? What does it feel like? Do you get that this is your space and you can do anything you want with it?
Just sit in that peace for 3 to 5 minutes (or as long as you’d like) and enjoy it. For this brief but quiet time, give yourself permission to feel that there are no obligations. There is only peace, power and love. Feel that now inside your FF there are only beliefs that you’re ok, safe and creative. Enjoy.
If you couldn’t follow along with that, or didn’t like it, that’s ok. There are many ways to address anxiety, stress and obligations. This is just one.
If you liked the idea of it while you were reading, then I invite you to try it. Right now. Just spend 3– 5 minutes taking care of your force field and let me know what it’s like for you. I’d love to hear about your experiences with this. ( You can post it on my website at the bottom of the page.)
I hope this helps.
Dave