I had an especially profound session of NET with a patient yesterday. We've worked together for quite some time now, working through whatever issues bubble to the surface on this wild journey called life. This particular patient has been going through a very big transition lately... she quit her full-time job to focus on her business. She felt that quitting her job would give her the time she desperately needed to focus on her career goals, her health, and her overall happiness.
But a funny thing happened.
She seemed to have even LESS time than before!
She was still overwhelmed, lacking the time for exercise, lacking the motivation to eat well, never able to get 100% organized.
This is really a lesson for all of us... That we have time for what we MAKE time for... but I digress...
I noticed a pattern in her life, and she was up for a journey down the rabbit hole.
We started picking apart the story she was telling herself... that there wasn't enough money, enough time, enough of ANYthing...
We tested the concept of her being ok with having too much, not enough, and even just being ok as she was... None of which she was congruent with.
But then, as we spoke, and I continued to probe, we realized that this endless, infinite pursuit of "enough" was about something more. I asked her, "Why do you need more? Why aren't YOU enough?" and we both stopped.
We had hit the mother load; the core issue that was driving all her pain and suffering.
How many of us are driven on endless journeys just like this one because underlying it all, we are just trying to measure up? How many of us never feel like we are enough? How many of us can't be happy with what we have because we always tell ourselves we could do more, be more, have more?
What kind of world would we create if we all felt like we were enough? And how much better would THAT world be if we all realized we were PRICELESS?
(PS I'm happy to say that we did clear this issue for her, and she felt a huge weight was lifted off her shoulders. I can't wait to see the shift manifest in her life!)
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