{"id":2436,"date":"2014-01-13T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:45:00","slug":"paralyzing-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/01\/13\/paralyzing-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzing Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crashmaster\/3192341451\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7213\" alt=\"photo credit: crashmaster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ParalyzingThinking.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ParalyzingThinking.png 640w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ParalyzingThinking-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What stops you dead in your tracks?<\/p>\n<p>One thing that stops me is thinking about my performance. Whether it is before, during, or after an action in which I want to perform and do it well, thinking about my performance paralyzes me.<\/p>\n<p>For what I am really doing in that moment is <strong>judging my performance<\/strong>, but more specifically, what I am <em>really, really<\/em> doing is <strong>jumping to<\/strong> (very negative) <strong>conclusions<\/strong> about my performance.<\/p>\n<p>I am deciding I know exactly what You think about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Except every single time You are actually Me, as my worst version of myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Quick, what&#8217;s the absolute worst thing you could say about this totally piece-o-shit performance? Ha ha, nice! Burn. And so true!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it any wonder I find myself paralyzed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s cool though is now that I see how my reaction looks \u2014 how I jump to conclusions and paralyze myself \u2014 I can begin shifting my thinking around this behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>In recognizing it, I now have a choice if I want to continue engaging with it, or if I want to respond to\u00a0my mind, and it&#8217;s harsh paralyzing judgements, with <strong>an understanding awareness and a willingness to let them pass<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t need to hold on to them. They aren&#8217;t helping.<\/p>\n<p>I like the power in this, and with practice, I trust I can create the mental freedom I desire. Because in the end, I perform because I need and want to, and nothing, not even my own harsh judgements, are going to stop me from doing what I love.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"photo credit crashmaster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crashmaster\/3192341451\/\">Crashmaster<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What stops you dead in your tracks? One thing that stops me is thinking about my performance. Whether it is before, during, or after an action in which I want to perform and do it well, thinking about my performance paralyzes me. For what I am really doing in that moment is judging my performance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[278,255,276,279,277],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing","tag-inaction","tag-pain","tag-perfectionism","tag-recognition","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}