If you sit there and wait any amount of time any amount of time your mind will begin to talk you out of it.

How to Break Free from Being Frozen

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well, hey there. I wanna go over something that actually was in one of my books, His Will Alone. The chapter was called “Strike While The Iron Is Hot.” And basically, the premise was that if the Spirit of God is moving, and He is talking to you and telling you to do something, it is super important to strike while the iron is hot. Literally, when He’s telling you to do it…Do it! So as I’ve thought through that and I’ve looked at that, I’ve also seen that’s what happens. When you get, either the Spirit is moving on you to tell you to do something, your spirits moving to tell you to do something, your intuition is telling you to do something and if you sit there and wait any amount of time any amount of time your mind will begin to talk you out of it. 

“Oh, you shouldn’t do that, Oh that’s dangerous. Oh, you can’t can’t sustain that, Oh that’s too expensive or whatever. Our intuition, our spirit and the Holy Spirit all working conjunction to direct us, to guide our path and to Shepherd us. And when we hesitate, when we hesitate and we second-guess, our mind will take it and spin it off into weird areas. And then all of a sudden we’re stymied, we’re frozen, we’re inactive, we’re unproductive and this is literally how this happens. 

I know personally, my tendency is to freeze. So you can…you know…fight, flight, freeze or fawn. My typical is freeze. So when something is happening that is scary, out of control… whatever. My response is to freeze it. It’s almost like mentally I’m trying to bury it. It doesn’t work. That’s never worked and I have found myself frozen in a number of things. 

I was being coached the other day and out of that coaching session we discovered that there would be power in writing down the things. Now, the best is to hit it while the iron is hot. Literally strike when it’s being brought up, when you’re feeling like you should be doing it, that’s the best. But if you happen to get into a frozen state or whatever or your brain has clicked in, you didn’t give it the immediacy that it needed. Your brain is taken over and convinced you that whatever you’re thinking is off. What I have done is, I literally write down those items. I literally will write down… so whatever it is, item one and then this is another area I’m frozen, item two. And then underneath it I write down, like a journal. I write down why I’m frozen. I dig into my guts and I say, “What is making me freeze on this? I’m afraid of being rejected. I’m afraid of failing in this opportunity. Whatever it is. It doesn’t matter what it is. Write it down. Write it out. And what I discover is when I will do this, I will literally write the item that I’m frozen in. Write the reason it takes the power away from it. It literally takes the spooky weird out of it because when the man takes over something that you’re a little iffy on and you don’t know if you can do it or if you should do it or whatever and the mind takes over it becomes almost like a ghost. It becomes like a ghost in your mind and it tells you that it’s spooky it’s the worst possible thing and it becomes like a ghost or a haint or whatever and it haunts you. 

So when you write it down, when you write the reason down, what I have found is that you pull the sheet off of the ghost. And you can look at it and you can say, “Oh OK! Well, that’s why I’m hesitating here. That’s why I’m frozen here and that’s not true. And then you can act on it. 

So I’ve written several things down and I get the exhilaration of doing the checkmark off, right on it. I take a marker and I put a big huge black check on it and that means I have completed this task. I have gone the distance. I have broken through the frozen state I was in and I have accomplished what I wanted to do. This is super powerful. This is a tremendous way of getting out of that frozen, that inert state where you’re literally incapable of moving. The mind has grown out the situation and made it seem something that it isn’t and then you fear it and you get all worked up about it and you don’t do anything forward moving. You’re frozen! You’re stayed.  You’re literally completely stymied and can’t do anything. 

So I just give this to you as something that’s worked for me on the frozen state. I number one…My goal is always to act on my intuition. If my intuition is telling me to do something. I’m wanting to do it and I do it now. If I jump, if I literally move right then, I find tremendous success. But if I don’t, if I let mine take over, I have found that literally writing it out, writing down, writing out what the reason is, it’s tremendously helpful. I pass that on to you. I hope it really helped you. I hope it helps you and your frozen state. That it gives you the motivation, that gives you the impetus to move forward and to continue on with whatever the spirit, whatever your spirit or whatever your intuition is telling you to do and jump and move. 

So I bless you. I am excited about this and I would love to… if you have any interest to walk this out with me and talk with me about it. I would love to hear from you and maybe we could set up a discovery call with coaching we can find out what it is and what is happening, and then we can get you from where you are to where you wanna be. So I bless you, I thank you and I appreciate you listening. Have a great day. 

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