Robert Zink

Stop Chasing, Start Attracting

There is a current social media trend of using this powerful affirmation “I don’t chase, I attract. What belongs to me, will simply find me.” The power of this trend is to encourage people to step into their own power and give them a boost of confidence. It comes from a place of pure confidence, and belief that things maneuver their way to us.

Chasing

Confidence and chasing are two completely opposite energies. Chasing comes from a place of fear. Fear of losing someone or something, trying so hard, struggling, and feelings of insecurities coming to the surface. We act on our feelings which are a result of our thoughts (affirmations). Therefore, all the inner dialogue that we currently have is based on our inner state. Chasing is a low vibrational energy that indicates suffering and heightened anxiety. At some point, these thoughts and feelings become habitual that it feels hard to break. Dr. Joe Dispenza explained that repetitive patterns of thinking which generate feelings lead to the body and the mind becoming one.

“Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.”
— Marcus Aurelius

Confidence

Start asking yourself “what am I currently chasing and why?” and take note of the things, people, and places that you’re chasing. From there you create awareness on where your anxiety lies, and where it comes from. Chasing is repelling. Confidence is attractive. Take the chasing energy and switch it to confidence energy. Decide to stop chasing.

  1. Work on releasing the anxiety, and practice soothing yourself, this will remove the urge to chase, and you will be much happier.
  2. Build your confidence in yourself, and start believing in your capability to have anything in this life.
  3. Start believing that the Universe/God will deliver what belongs to you.

Live every day with that knowing, that things find you. That there is nothing to chase. You can relax and trust in that. Allow yourselves to take inspired actions solely, rather than try so hard to make things happen.

Are You Guilty of Spiritual Bypassing?

Spiritual Bypassing describes the act of denying and suppressing negative emotions. In 1984, this term was created by John Welwood to express his experiences in a Buddhist community.

He defined it as “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.”

The reason spiritual bypassing is being promoted in spiritual communities is due to the fear of sitting with heavy feelings that can cause a great level of discomfort. The intention behind spiritual bypassing is to push aside the emotions that way us down and to practice feeling good all day instead. Most people who join spiritual communities and begin their journey come from a lot of unresolved trauma, anger and pain. Therefore, spirituality is often viewed solely as a healing modality to experience inner peace. In many spiritual teachings, spiritual bypassing can be very subtle. The intention behind it is great, however being guilty of spiritual bypassing can result to emotional outburst, poor self-awareness and difficulties of self-acceptance.

Here are different ways we all participate in spiritual bypassing  (also known as ‘toxic positivity’ in societial terms):

  1. Viewing anger, pain and sadness as destructive emotions
  2. Labels that belittle negative emotions, such as “Negative Nancy” or “Debbie Downer”
  3. High vibration teachings that look down on low vibrational feelings. The truth is that our feelings ebb and flow, and we all have a wave of emotions each day. It’s about not making low vibration your dwelling place.
  4. Condemning mental illnesses and fears
  5. Common terms used to glorify spiritual bypassing such as:
    • “Good vibes only!”
    • “Everything happens for a reason”
    • “Just be positive”

What To Do Instead:

  1. Accept all parts of you – the good, the bad & the ugly. At the end of the day, we can’t know how happiness feels if we don’t know how sadness feels. You are NOT your thoughts or your feelings. They are simply one aspect of who you are.
  2. Avoid labelling emotions – Describing emotions as positive and negative is what causes us to turn away from certain ones, like worry.
  3. Develop Healthier Coping Mechanisms – Pushing our feelings away is a form of self-defense mechanism as we’re too scared to look fear in the eye. Look fear in the eye and develop a practice that helps you deal with the emotion, sit with it and allow it to pass out of your body.
  4. Practice self-compassion – The more you have self-compassion, the more compassionate you become with others. The less judgements you hold about yourself and your feelings, the less you do with others.

As spiritual beings, we are having a human experience. Part of the human experience is shedding all these layers we have. We are complex, multifaceted beings, and the only way to practice self-awareness is to take a good look at every aspect of ourselves and be okay with. The only way to heal & shift is through awareness.

Have you been guilty of spiritual bypassing?

What is Letting Go?

In simple terms, the law of attraction is simply a concept of “Ask, believe, receive.” Part of this receiving process is the ability to let go and let your manifestation flow to you. Letting go is one of the most confusing ideas. It seems like a paradox to both believe and let it go. While there are a lot of different teachings out there that may seem to contradict, in the end, it is all leading to the same path just different journeys, and routes. As Ram Dass says “We’re all walking each other home.”

Any desire is given to us by the God within us.

Our desires come from our higher self because we are meant to experience them. That’s the truth. We are drawn to certain things, experiences, places, and people because we are meant to have them. And when our heart truly desires something, it simply cannot drop it for good unless you stop desiring it. It is a common misconception that letting go means moving on from the desire. Letting go means to STOP wanting and needing it because if you had what you want, you wouldn’t have that burning desire. It would just be natural to have it and you’d be basking in gratitude for it.

Imagine placing an order on eBay. You know your products are arriving whether or not you can track your order. You invested in these products, placed your details and now you’re receiving them. It doesn’t matter if you ordered a pair of shoes or twelve, you will still receive your order(s). You don’t wonder if it will work out or if the pair of shoes will be damaged or if eBay decides not to give you what you want. You just rest and surrender to the knowing that it is yours and it is coming. This is letting go in a nutshell. Giving up is canceling that eBay order. That’s the difference between letting go and giving up.

The big question is how do you let it go?

Let’s say you’re manifesting your dream house. You really want to get a specific house in a specific city. You set the intention for it, visualised it, and constructed affirmations. Now, your job is to identify the resistance without making it your identity. You are not the resistance, you are experiencing resistance. Ask yourself what is within you that is making you need it and worrying about it. Maybe it is a time crunch situation and you’re unhappy with your current living conditions and that’s why you can’t wait to leave.

Make Peace

So from there, you decide to make peace with the current situation and strengthen your imagination. Make peace with the fact that this is temporary and nothing lasts forever, and somehow where you are is leading you to your desire. Keep reassuring yourself till you feel a little lighter. Now create new beliefs about your concept of self as a manifestor and your desire. Decide that you are now the person who gets exactly what they want when they want, and that life is so easy for you. Now step into the version of you who is that person and who moved to their new home. That way, you completely align yourself with the chosen reality. Meditate on that feeling! Keep doing this every day till you drop the resistance and the attachment to the outcome. Simultaneously, keep yourself busy with other productive activities that keep your focus off the “when” and the “how.” It is already done.

How are you practicing letting go?

Setting Boundaries

What are boundaries?

We hear the term ‘setting boundaries’ a lot, and while people understand the meaning of a boundary, not everyone knows how to set boundaries. It is a crucial aspect of your life that protects your mental space, your physical space, your time, and your energy. As we know by now, personal development starts with you. You have to be the one setting those boundaries! You are the one who gets to decide which boundaries to set and why, you are the one who decides to what extent these boundaries should be set.

We set boundaries based on our level of self-worth. If you have low self-worth, you probably allow people that disrespect you to continue to do that or to stay in your life. Of course, they are responsible for their own actions, and it is inexcusable. People who have themselves on a pedestal and have a sense of self-assurance, only allow people in their lives that match their standards. This is the starting point, raising your self-worth and maintaining standards. Accept the love and respect you deserve and desire, and never settle for less. As you build your self-worth, you begin to see with clearer eyes how you were letting toxic people in your life that drain you. Boundaries are set by communicating them. Choose to be assertive and express your boundaries if anyone crosses them, however, if someone continues to cross your boundaries, you might want to consider crossing them out of your life.

Why do we need them?

The purpose of boundaries is to look after yourself and your health, create better relationships with the ones you love, encourage effective communication, enhance your self-esteem and give yourself and others room for growth. Though this can only happen by setting HEALTHY boundaries.

Healthy Boundaries

Healthy boundaries involve the actions and behaviors you choose to accept from others and the way you show up for others, which is a form of self-care. The truth is that this happens when we set healthy boundaries with ourselves first – the content we consume, the way we treat ourselves, the way we speak to ourselves, the activities we take part in, speaking your mind, being assertive, being vulnerable, standing your ground, and how we take care of our own wellbeing.

Unhealthy Boundaries

Unhealthy boundaries happen when you choose to be powerless and letting others run the show. This is when you struggle to say no, when you become a people-pleaser when you let others make life decisions for you, giving too much without receiving the same level of love and respect in return, oversharing personal information with someone you barely know, going against your ethical values and morals for others. There is a fine line between compromising and sacrificing. You should never sacrifice parts of who you are or your identity or anything that is important to you. Compromising is finding common grounds to ensure that both parties are fulfilled.

Choose self-respect. Choose love. Choose kindness. Anything that doesn’t align should be out of the door this instant. Practice communicating your boundaries and eventually, it will become easier.

How do you communicate your boundaries?

Should You Do Hypnosis or Meditation?

The idea of changing one’s state of mind, mood, or moving from one emotion to another isn’t anything new.

As psychology has been developed, hypnotherapy emerged to treat mental conditions and behavioral changes. Similarly, there has been a rise in holistic approaches such as aromatherapy, massage therapy, naturopathy, meditation, and more. The purpose of these holistic approaches is to heal every aspect of our being in mind, body and spirit.

Here’s a brief history of hypnosis and meditation as well as ways that you may be able to apply either one to your life.

Self-Forgiveness

Forgiving yourself can be one of the hardest things for human beings to do. In fact, some people don’t realize that they have put this pressure on themselves.

Everyone is on a different journey, and through each journey, there are bumps along the road. The ability to let go of hurt, pain and resentment seems almost impossible for people when they’re experiencing these emotions. We try so hard to live up to the expectation of having to be perfect, so we put a lot of pressure on ourselves when we fail or make a mistake.

Let’s get to the root of what forgiveness really means and how we achieve that.

In a nutshell, forgiveness is forgetting and moving on from the situation. The idea that you can forgive but not forget is false. If we continue to remember how someone hurt us, we will continue to bring it up whenever they wrong us or irritate us in any way. Once the hurt is dissolved, the memory starts to dissolve, too. If you don’t forget the mistake that you made, you will continue to self-loathe or be quick to criticize yourself on the smallest things. To do this, you have to take responsibility for your actions AND accept that this happened and it’s done. It is all in the past.

The more you dwell on something in the past that you cannot change, the more you make it your present and your future. If you wronged someone, own up to it and apologize. This is for you to grow, whether or not you are getting them back. Your job is to not make every human being love you.

Your job is to become more self-aware and use that awareness to better yourself.

Now, whenever the feelings of guilt or resentment come up, sit with it. Resisting your feelings makes them persist. So take a seat, and let the feeling pass. By doing this, you will give yourself permission to digest what happened, accept it and let it go. This is your time to feel to heal and to also reflect as to how and why you feel a certain way. Ask yourself “Do I want to continue to feel this way?” and “what is a better way to look at the situation?”

Here are some ways to look at the situation:

Every mistake is a learning experience
Perfection means stagnation. Growth stops. Imperfection means more growth.
This is NOT serving me. So what would serve me?
Bringing myself down does not lift me or others up

This is also a perfect time to practice self-compassion and self-love. You are so focused on how you hate a number of things about yourself and the things you failed at.

Ask yourself

What am I good at?
What have I succeeded at?

If you can’t find the answers to these questions, now is your time to shine. Now is your time to set clear goals while also practicing self-compassion. Be more gentle with yourself. If you continue to punish yourself, you will continue to be stuck in this very moment. It is time for a change. It is your choice to make that decision now. You can do better, so start doing better.

Here are three ways to practice self-compassion:

  1. Be Your Own BFF – Write down how you would respond to a friend who feels down or guilty, and give that friend advice. Use what you wrote to read it to yourself daily. By treating yourself the way you treat a friend, you form a healthier relationship with yourself which is the most important relationship in the world.
  2. Change Your Inner Critic – Monitor your self-talk to recognise when you’re being self-critical. From there you can dissolve the criticism by giving yourself permission to switch these thoughts to self-compassionate ones.
  3. Journal & Mindfulness – Write down the inner critic voice you hear to understand the root of this self-talk. Use this as an opportunity to practice mindfulness to let go of the feelings of shame and guilt that come up from journaling. Journaling is a great way to track your progress and to stay on top of your journey.

How are you going to practice self-forgiveness today?

VIDEO | Live the Highest Version of You

This is hypnosis visualization audio is designed to connect your energy field with your Parallel reality, the highest version of yourself. Listen to this audio to rewrite the limiting beliefs that are making you live a small life. Step into the person that you’ve always wanted to become. Listen to it as you sleep and let your subconscious mind do the rest.