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Breaking
The Mental Rut Cycle Supporting Stress
Breaking the Mental Rut Cycle
 

Mental ruts keep us forever circling the same airfield without seeing the creative solutions to land the plane safely.

The same accelerated input that conditioned and addicted us to behave in certain ways, to think and feel in certain ways, is also responsible for the stress and for the mental ruts. It is all one syndrome - too much input per second for the physical brain - unless new software is used.

These unassimilated inputs or Unresolved Experiences bother us day and night and our inner dialog is propelled by them in a cycle that never ends. We generate attempted solutions that come from the mental rut context and these tend to not succeed, adding back more stress.

Stimuli which jog a change in mental pattern lead to more creative and effective solutions. Over time this engenders more flexible mental/emotional processing, leading to further creative and effective solutions.

Instead of a tail-biting circle, we move to where there is an equilibrium in which we vibrate between flexible mental/emotional processing and creative and effective solutions.

 

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