For the past twenty five years, I’ve been working with a mind management process that has literally saved my life more than once by shifting immobilizing fear into possibility thinking.
In one instance, I was forty feet underwater in the middle of the Pacific Ocean lobster hunting––which, of course, can only happen at night. Yes, I had a diving buddy, but there were two unfortunate things about that: 1. he had the only real underwater light (mine was a water-proof flashlight with a beam of about 3 feet) and 2. he was far more intent on chasing a lobster illuminated bright red on the white ocean floor–– than on paying attention to what was happening for me.
It was a rush at first, swimming after him in full pursuit, but coming through an undersea forest I was suddenly stopped short when tough, rubbery kelp grabbed my tanks. My buddy’s light faded into the distant water and I was left immobilized and alone in the pitch black sea.
At times like this your Inner Critters really take you out and mine were screaming at me, panic Shayla panic! And I did for a few seconds, but almost immediately, the mind management tool I had practiced many times in less dire circumstances came to me and I said to myself, Critter Reality says I’m going to die right here on the bottom of the ocean. My Whisperer Vision is I am calm and absolutely safe.
Immediately, I remembered to breath and with my first breath, came the confidence to start ripping that gnarly kelp off the tanks by reaching blindly over my shoulder with great force. In just seconds, I could feel it give up its hold on me. Then, perfectly free once more, I swam as fast as I could toward the hazy pin prick of brightness in the distance that was the fading vestige of my buddy’s dive light. It wasn’t until we bagged the lobster and returned to the boat that he even knew I had been gone.
In BoldMoves Country, we call the mind management process I used The GrooveTool because we have learned in recent years that it actually helps to fill in unwanted grooves of fear and doubt in the brain and create new grooves of possibility thinking. It is an amazing creating tool that can be used not only in dire moments of panic, but in everyday life when you feel just a bit off and you want to regain your center.
If we can agree that we create what we give attention to, then we can see how powerful it is to have a tool for shifting our attention immediately from fear and doubt to possibility thinking.
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