75. You can’t drive forward using a rearview mirror (Soul Wholeness #3)

It’s impossible to ride a bike— at 20mph+ — while looking BACK over your shoulder. 

Straight up, if you try it, you’ll crash 90% of the time.

Same is true in life. 

It’s almost IMPOSSIBLE to live forward while constantly looking back over your shoulder. 

Here’s what that observation has to do with soul health… 

We’re designed to grow by exploring the world around us. But, we bump into painful experiences as we do. So, we create (often unconscious) rules to protect ourselves from future pain. 

In other words, we create a default mechanism, internally, to try and RIDE forward while steering based on the past…

That doesn’t make TOTAL sense (it makes SOME sense, for sure). The pavement in the past doesn’t always best predict the landscape ahead… 

Some of the “rules” and reference points we create ARE ACTUALLY functional (and help us), others are dysfunctional (and hinder us).

In this talk I reference three rules of human nature, related to soul health, govern how we uniquely approach the world.

Then, we’ll go farther. We’ll discuss how these rules can create ruts— both good and bad.

•  Functional rules = friends = help us (don’t touch a hot stove, fear of heights, walking down dark alley)
•  Dysfunctional = foes = hinder us (lack of trust in relationships, fear of failure, etc.)

In the the end, we eventually get more of what we expect, creating a “flywheel” of momentum.

In other words, if we don’t work through the “triggers” we discussed in the previous video (linked below) also we often find ourselves constantly living from “soul memory,” something much like muscle memory.  

How does it fit with soul health?

Well, in the same way you can’t ride the cycle by always looking over your shoulder, you can’t drive through life by constantly staring over your shoulder. Peak back when you need to… 

But live “ahead,” leaning forward…

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