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LIVING a
Soul-Hearted
LIFE
10 SACRED STRATEGIES FOR
GETTING UNSTUCK &
Freeing
Yourself
BY DR. DEBRA REBLE
In every moment, we have a choice to
move forward or remain stuck. When we
feel stuck, it feels as if the same old things
are repeating themselves or we’re just going
through the motions. It may be fear and
anxiety that keeps us from moving forward
or making a necessary change. Yet, for
someone else, it may be negative thoughts,
old beliefs, or self-doubt. Being creatures of
habit, we often make choices based on our
past patterns or habits instead of what truly
resonates with our soul’s path. Living this
way, we feel stagnate, uninspired and our
fear of change keeps us stuck in a holding
pattern with life.
“Stuckness” is a state of paralysis where you
feel unable to make a change. This sense of
stuckness is at pandemic levels right now.
As a collective, we are suffering from anxiety,
depression, and hopelessness more than
ever before. Most of us crave change and
want to be free from suffering, but we don’t
know how to create such freedom. Above
all, we will continue to perpetuate these
negative patterns, conditioning, and beliefs
unless we do the transformational work to
get unstuck and free ourselves.
Where does a sense of stuckness come
from? It comes from past patterning and
conditioning that has created repetitive
mental grooves in your brain. Neuroscience
has studied these neural pathways that
your brain automatically takes most of the
time without your permission. This neural
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