the comfort of procrastination

 

I know it all too well.  I can remember doing grade school assignments LATE the night before they were due.  I can recall writing papers at THE last minute, while my best friend would have them done days in advance.  It rattled me so much to see.  How could someone do that?  To not wait until the last minute?!

 

 

As I've grown older and “wiser" , the older and wiser version still procrastinates though it's slowly improved.  I have gotten curious, though, of what's in it for me?

 

 

The more I've learned about the nervous system, its patterns and stress responses, and even what may be called trauma, I've also recognized there's some rush I'm hooked on that I get in that pressure-cooker of procrastination.

 

 

It sounds crazy to admit!  Who would want to be in a pressure-cooker?

 

 

Well… [insert dramatic pause as maybe people are connecting the faint dots of the other ‘pressure-cookers’ of life…]

 

 

This is the thing.  We can get hooked on things that we know aren't actually good for us because they provide some ‘comfort’, some familiarity, even if its actually not truly comfortable.  Even if we eventually have awareness around it and STILL are hooked.  All in due time.  But as with any pattern, there can always be a new pattern.  There can always be the invitation to change.  And then its up to us to choose to take action. 

I / you / we are nature.  Procrastination is NOT a natural act in the sense that watch nature - things change when it's time.  The buds arrive when ‘conditions are right’.  As humans, our brains may try too hard to figure out when ‘conditions are right’ and that's ok… awareness first.

 

 

For now, I hope this has shone a little light on what could be a pattern in you ready to go because as familiar-comfortable as it may be, another, wiser part of you knows that it's actually holding you back [so many limiting patterns can and if there was one specific one to name - procrastination is definitely that].  

 

 

🌲 🏔 And, as I'm here amidst the mountains and trees [the pictures here are current!] at my final Somatic Experiencing® {trauma healing / nervous system regulation}, I can feel an old procrastinator identity fading away.  To complete something so huge has been scary in a certain sense because it's me finishing something, not procrastinating.  A new way is being introduced to my mind/body, which as foreign as it can feel, that wiser, higher Self part of me knows that it's time.

 

 

What about you?  What does this bring up?  Are you in the pressure cooker of procrastination?  Is there an inner procrastinator part who's saying, ahhh noooo bustedddd? 😎

 

 

 

P.S.  If you've been feeling some buzz around joining my LIT group program and putting it off … this is THE time!  We start THIS week and we have safe space to get into those limiting patterns {and sooo much more}.  I'd love to have you, let's go … 

 

 

 

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