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What to do when you’re feeling stuck…
…and how a dusty needle can help you see something new.
From ‘I’m Stuck’…
I had a fun session with a client this morning bouncing ideas around and getting creative with a sticky problem he was facing.
As well as whatever we do in the practical, it’s very important for me to know that my clients are growing their understanding of how the mind works. Yes, there is magic in what we do, but I don’t just want someone to have the experience of magic, I want them to be able to do it for themselves, and for others.
Today’s conversation reminded me, for some reason, of what happens when a record gets played with a dusty needle and the sound comes out scratchy, or it has static, or it’s like a proverbial broken record, bouncing over and over again to the same place.
Sounds pretty icky, and yet it’s exactly parallel to what we do when our thinking gets a bit stuck.
A first time record listener might not realise the record isn’t supposed to sound like this. They might go down a very deep rabbit hole of potential solutions, only to emerge and see other people grappling with the same issue and concluding, this is just,
the way things are.
