Has a guide, teacher, mentor, coach, etc ever told you to "just get out of your head"?
First of all, that's where all the good shit lives.
Second, who do they think they are trying to push you out of a place that feels safe to you, while offering no safe alternative(s)?
No matter how knowledgeable they are, your guide has to offer you a safe reality in which you believe you will be heard, acknowledged, understood and valued.
Third, if you have a persistent drive for autonomy, such a demand reaffirms your need to camp out in your mind, away from this ambiguous threat of failure.
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People in "helping" spaces often expect clients to relax defenses that make you feel safer. Because anti-intellectualism is socially accepted, they feel comfortable holding your brain responsible for disconnects between their teaching and your learning.
While they hold your brain responsible for the work they need to do to connect with you, your body has to feel safe enough in the relationship to even consider that other realities are possible.
I co-construct with my clients using personas, infographics, maps and other heuristics (framing tools). An invitation to work in these ways disrupts some drives that have been planted deeply in us: for example, it disrupts the artificial sense of urgency, the drive for perfection, the lure of objectivity and more.
These framing tools will "get you out of your head", if that is a real goal, but they won't require you to abandon yourself.
Once you and I agree that a new way of working (together) is possible, this realization makes other realities possible. We can then think wildly and imaginatively about solutions. We can loosen your clutch on familiar solutions that no longer meet your needs.
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I need you to be exactly where you are: in your body and in your mind. I'll meet you there.