Sometimes, the best way of coping with frustration is to just let it go.
If you’ve ever had the exhilarating experience of being “in the zone” with inspired action, you’ve probably also had the experience of coping with frustration when trying to call that kind of experience up on command. Let’s face it – once you know what inspired action is like, you want all of your goal-related actions to be inspired! And when you try and try to recreate the experience at will, you generally find yourself stuck and seriously frustrated by your attempts.
But frustration and impatience can be interpreted as a kind of fear – the fear that what you want won’t actually happen for you. And when you’ve got a longer term goal in mind and you know it’s going to take a lot of action, and potentially a lot of time on your part in order to build up what you want, frustration is often part and parcel of the experience. Unfortunately, from a vibrational stand point, frustration is also about the last thing you want to be sending out there. What you give is what you get, so if you’re focused on the frustration of not being able to perform or create at the level you want to… guess what’s going to come back to you? Yep… more frustration; more writer’s block, more procrastination, more lack of concentration, more diffusion of creative energy, etc. It really is a vicious circle.
So, obviously, finding ways of coping with frustration is really important for keeping yourself aligned with making your goal a reality. And one of the biggest secrets to coping with frustration, as it is to so many things, is to let it be and let it go. Stop fighting it. Because the more you desperately flail around trying to force action when you aren’t inspired, the more you repel the very inspiration you seek. Force and Law of Attraction don’t mix. So if you want to tone down the frustration and regain your lost inspiration, the best thing to do is to stop chasing it and become still. Find your centre. Breathe. And let the answers come to you…
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yup, when I was depressed I was literally not able to do anything. I was in a stagnant situation and all I could do was watch youtube. Now I know I was doing that to make me feel better. turning to you tube and watching funny videos or some shows I love slowly got me out of that state. The extreme sadness brought with it anxiety, and I had to learn to manage that as well. Only after these two states were experienced was I able to focus on the job at hand.
The problem I have is that we live in a society that questions us and calls us lazy, when in fact we are really dealing with something, and vibrationally expanding. I found that people were all over me, questioning if and when I was going to do something. Once I let this go and not allowed it to affect me that way it did previously and just sent out love and detachment myself from those judging me, their outbursts did not faze me either. So, it is really our life and that path we are each on is to be carved by us.
Yes, depression is like that. You can’t just “snap out of it” the way some people would like you to. It doesn’t work that way — it’s too big a vibrational jump. Depression has to be dealt with on an incremental basis. You have to pull yourself up that ladder one step at a time. Which is not to say that it has to take a really long time, but it is a scaffolding process, and improvements in mood and coping abilities happen in a sequence.
I’ve talked about laziness before, and said that laziness doesn’t really exist. It’s a judgment call made by people (and we all do it) who are viewing a situation from the outside. We cannot know what is going on inside someone else’s experience. When we view something as lazy it’s because we don’t understand all the factors at play. I don’t believe that human being are constitutionally capable of “real” laziness.