Pardon the Interruption – How Interrupting Can Help You Reclaim Your Life
I’m inviting you to try a little experiment.
Here’s it is:
Stop the next thought that comes into your head. Really… Try this. If you need to, close your eyes, get quiet and then do your best to stop the next thought.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you can’t. You’ve probably heard me say this before.
Go out to the ocean and try to hold back the tide. If you can do that, then stopping the next thought that pops into your head should be a no-brainer. (I think there’s a bit of an unintended pun there.)
I’ve spoken about interrupting your thoughts before and I think it’s worth repeating. (Often)
So now that it’s been established that you can’t stop your thoughts, what can you do?
You can interrupt them. What does this mean exactly?
When you notice a thought pop into your head that’s unwelcome, instead of freaking out about it, or doing what I’ve done, which is to actually shake my head to get that thought out of there, or any other thing you might do… try this…
Acknowledge the thought fully and tap while you do so.
There is a lot of power in this.
When you acknowledge the thought you are practicing non-resistance.
When you add tapping into the mix, you begin to change that neural pathway. If you keep doing this when you notice thoughts you don’t like, over time, you will find that you start to feel better and that you don’t have the same emotionally charged response to certain stimulus.
You can also work to move yourself up the emotional scale. Check out Abraham-Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale. I go deeper into this in the video that’s included, but essentially using this emotional guidance scale along with tapping can really help you to move to the next best feeling thought. This moves you in the right direction and creates an interruption.
Other interruptions of your thoughts can be to get a cup of tea, move your body, do a power stance, pull up a funny video and watch it, pet you dog or cat, walk into a different room. Anything that gives you a momentary distraction is a pattern interrupt.
The more you do this, the more you move your energy into a better feeling place and more the feel better.
In public speaking, they often talk about the power of the pause…
Think about the power of the interruption.
When practiced daily, it has the power to change your life for the better.
Here’s to Interrupting!!!
Marti