Stuck is that feeling when you want to move in a certain direction and can’t seem to coordinate the parts and pieces to move in a way that feels good, or to move at all.
It’s the opposite of flow.
There’s not a person alive who has not felt stuck at one point — or several. Whether in your body, in your career, in a relationship, in other parts of your life.
There are few things more frustrating than feeling stuck.
And it can be all-consuming. When you’re stuck, it’s a natural instinct to seek the cause of the stuckness and the strategy that will get you unstuck.
If I can just figure out the one thing that’s wrong, I can fix this.
But your efforts to try to pinpoint the cause can send you down endless rabbit holes, making you feel more stuck, increasing your anger and frustration. You get further tangled in your stuckness.
It’s Not Just One Thing
Here’s the thing: when you’re feeling stuck — whether in a joint, in your career, in a relationship — it’s rarely just one thing.
Just like flow is the result of many different factors and influences coming together, so too is stuck.
Human beings are complex systems, influenced by numerous external and internal factors. Systems are complicated; a breakdown in one area will impact other areas.
A movement limitation might involve neurological guarding, unconscious fears, inflammation, trauma, proprioceptive mismatch, or unresolved emotion stored in your tissues.
A business block might stem from identity issues, fear of visibility, fear of success, fear of failure, family patterns, trauma, relationship issues, or a nervous system in freeze mode.
There’s not one “magic strategy” that will unlock the sticking point.
You must look at the whole system, and untangle the web of knots.
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