How to see your blocks

Sometimes it’s just too hard to see your own blocks. You might feel their presence, an invisible, unnameable something that stands between you and where you want to be. In less enlightened times you might have decided you were cursed, darkly and subtly manipulated by the power of another.

Today you might be curious about your karma, or consider whether the universe has other plans for you, gently but firmly placing a block in front of you to persuade you to turn your head, to see a different way.

Or you might begin to doubt your power to manifest your conscious plan and wonder just how far your unconscious mind will go to stop you in your tracks. You may trundle out some names, some possible contenders for those unconscious forces: self saboteur, self doubt, fear of this, that, and the other. But be confident in your diagnosis? It’s tricky. Those forces are unconscious by definition. Sometimes it’s just too hard to see your own stuff.

We all have blocks. We each see the world in different ways according to our beliefs, our illusions about reality. A path you see might be blocked from my vision by my way of looking at and understanding life.

So while our moment to moment karma may determine our moment to moment experiences, and while the universe can indeed be so mysteriously helpful, it all really comes down to what’s down there, deep in your unconscious, the good stuff and the skewed wonky stuff that’s all part of your unique way of seeing the world. It’s that stuff that drives you to respond to life in ways that build your karma, and it’s that stuff that the universe occasionally tries to change when it calls an intervention.

Sometimes it’s just too hard to see your own blocks because they are just part of your normal life. Everyone’s normal, right? Until you breakthrough and look back over your shoulder from a new normal. And so it goes.

Dreams offer the best help in seeing what’s going on in your unconscious. Once you know how to approach dreams, you can unmask those unconscious forces, identify opposing desires and beliefs that keep you conflicted and stuck, name blocks with confidence, then apply some dream alchemy and, vision broadened, watch them disappear.

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