Wednesday, January 30, 2008

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS

What do you do when you've tried everything conceivable to make something work and your efforts bring no results? What is your tendency in these situations? Is that when you give up? Is that when you throw your hands up in the air and say "I don't have the answers"?

This is the moment when you need to trust and surrender. If you have done all that's possible and you are out of ideas or actions, do nothing and trust that everything is going to work out.

It's more common to quit when things are going well. That's a high risk time for failure, not when things are going poorly. Crisis is a great motivator and success can be scary. Scary enough to quit before it can happen. Many of us are driven at the get go but we run out of steam when things start falling into place.

Either way, there is a time to surrender it over (whatever that means to you) and let nature take its course.

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Avon, CT, United States
I am a seasoned psychotherapist who has been on a spiritual journey. I believe in the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy. The field of psychotherapy is rapidly changing and I am part of this change. The old traditional ways don't work anymore. I also do health coaching and have worked for programs at AETNA and ABILTO as a coach.