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If you’re fully invested in shaping your reality by keeping your emotions high and your thoughts on a creative track, when the down days come, they can come with a special vengeance.Suddenly it can look as if all the good work you were doing was a sham, a venture into wonderland. And struggle as you might against it, you find yourself sinking downward into a quicksand of gray gloomy goo. What should you do when that happens? And what does it mean?Emotional quicksand takes you by surprise. There you are, merrily focusing your thoughts on the preferred reality you’re in the midst of building, when suddenly you find yourself helplessly sunk in a pool of toxic emotions that refuse to let you go. By the time you recognize that you’re in the stuff, you’re probably in waist-deep. That’s the way quicksand works. You can’t just step out of it; you need to take some emergency measures.As nearly everybody who has lived around quicksand will tell you, the very first rule when you find yourself unexpectedly sinking is “Don’t Panic!” In The Good Earth Almanac Survival Handbook (New York: Sheed and Ward, Inc., 1973), author Mark Gregory cautions, “Panic-stricken struggling only causes you to sink ‘by gravity’ deeper into the mire.” Accept where you are and let it be okay. In the inner world, as well as the outer, patches of quicksand may be deep, but they generally aren’t very large, and you can swim or roll out. You will survive.“The main thing, Gregory says, “is to take you time and rest often.” That’s a key point when negative emotions have engulfed you. Chances are good that either stress or fatigue caused you to sink in the first place. As uncomfortable as the quicksand may be, the best way to deal with it is to lay back on its surface and float, gently propelling yourself back toward solid ground, one easy stoke at a time.Remind yourself that this is a temporary situation, nothing more than loose grains of old beliefs floating to the surface from the pressure of an underground spring. That spring is your new reality, in the process of forming itself. As it bubbles into your present, it sometimes has to push aside old debris.All that grit, that debris, those feelings of failure and self-doubt, are remnants of your former self, washing into the past. As you float on the surface of them, send some compassion to that earlier version of you. That was such an unhappy place to be. And, stroking gently toward your new reality, give thanks that the old is passing. Beneath it, rising even now to the surface of your experience, is your new creation. Let it be, and give thanks. Freedom is on its way.
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Susan K. Minarik is the author of “Winning the Tomorrow Game: How to Discover and Create the Life of Your Dreams,” available at www.thetomorrowgame.com On her website, www.magicalmirrormachine.com she offers resources for intentionally shaping personal reality. Check it out.
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