Why Do I Feel Stuck and How To Move Past It

Ever get that feeling where you feel stuck in life. You’re taking actions to move forward and do the things you love yet you feel like you’re throwing darts at dartboard in a dark room.

In this article I’m going to go into why we feel stuck, where the feeling stems from, and then how to move on.

I’ve had various phases in my life where I felt stuck. Where I felt like I was trying everything to move forward, and was taking action and making changes in my life but didn’t know why I felt that way. It’s a horrible feeling where you feel like nothing in the world, no matter how much action you take, will change your internal state. Where does this feeling come from? Why do we get it?

It’s important to note here that a majority of feelings that we experience are linked to our past. For instance, if it’s a negative feeling that you don’t like such as depression or anxiety then it is somehow linked to your past, or your ancestors past. And you cannot move on from this feeling until you figure out the source of it. Once you figure out the source, integrate the memory that first initiated that feeling only then can you move on.

The goal of life is to experience more pleasant and higher emotions such as love and joy and peace. If you notice these are the emotions that people aspire to. However, you cannot feel these emotions until you drop the lower ones. And the lower ones are usually connected to your past. And if they don’t come directly from your past you inherited them from your parents. The energy that your parents created you with is downloaded into your being. That’s where the saying, “He/she doesn’t fall to far from the tree?” Now, what does this have to do with the feeling of stuckness?

If you’re looking out in your environment and you feel stuck yet there is nothing external to you that makes sense for why you feel stuck then the feeling is something coming from the past.

Typically, we think about emotions in one way. We say, “Something happens outside of me, like someone yelling at me, and then we experience the emotion from that external event.” In this case if someone is yelling at you then you may get defensive or angry. However, emotions are from the past as well and they will play out again in your life if you never integrated the feeling during that emotional experience.

Every experience you have in life has an emotional quality to it. And if you’re trying to go too quickly through life then you cannot process and integrate that emotion. This causes a backlog of emotional energy that your being hasn’t processed. When you get a backlog of this energy because you’re not slowing down and processing, an all too common thing in our fast world today, it piles up and you begin to experience this emotion over and over again even though there is nothing going on in your external environment that would make you feel that emotion.

I’ll give you an example to make this clear.

When I was in the combat I had to be really active and engaged. I was focused on not being killed. I was so focused on not being killed that I didn’t even have too much time to feel into the anxiety and worry of being killed. I was too focused on everything else around me. However, once I got back I started feeling so much anxiety and worry wherever I went. It didn’t make sense to me because I was now in a safe environment. This is the key. I felt the scared and anxious all those times in war but I didn’t have enough energy to process then because all my energy was going towards survival. So that emotional anxiety and worry got backlogged. Then, when I got to a safer environment where I could feel more relaxed all the emotions that were backlogged wanted to come forward to be processed. People who get burnout from a specific job usually go into depression after they leave the job. For years they were go, go, go. They didn’t give any attention to what was happening inside of them. Finally, one day they feel tired and burnt out. They quite their job and go into a deep depression. They go into a depression because for so long they depressed all of the energy within their being to be able to GO,GO,GO. This is what happens with so many of us when it comes to feeling stuck.

If you’re feeling stuck in your life then you have to search back into your life where you think you would’ve felt stuck but couldn’t integrate or process the emotion at that time because you were to focused on survival or just meeting a goal.

For instance, maybe you living in a destructive home where you were never allowed to be yourself and you wanted to leave but didn’t have the means to leave because you weren’t financially stable. You told yourself everyday, “I’m going to create a better life for myself no matter what.” So you work, work, and work and don’t even focus on the fact that your stuck there. You get out of the home and our finally independent but then this feeling of stuckness comes up within you. And it’s confusing because you look out in your environment and you don’t see any reason for feeling stuck. It’s because your being in the past felt that way however you couldn’t fully feel into the emotion because you had to make progress to get out of there as quickly as possible.

This is how most of us live our lives. We experience it, weren’t not feeling the emotions of the experience because we’re too focused on the action of what we’re doing. It’s not until after we get out of the situation do we feel the deep emotions.

In order to integrate this feeling of stuckness you need to go back and evaluate your life where you suspect all the times where you could’ve felt stuck yet didn’t allow yourself to feel into that emotion. Once you ‘ve found the memory then go deep into it. Bring back that character, personality, and persona, to the forefront of your consciousness and get in touch with it. Build a relationship with it.

Ask it how he is truly feeling. This may feel like your talking to yourself but in reality what your doing is integrating the personality that you had to build at that time to make it through a particular period throughout your life. Once you build and develop a relationship with that character then you will start to feel like you’re actually moving forward because that personality or piece of you isn’t stuck in that feeling in the past.

Deepest Blessings and Pranamams!

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