Barriers or Bridges

Are the words you use barriers or bridges?

Do they open up the conversation or close it down, stop it dead in it’s tracks?

‘I don’t know!’ as an immediate retort to a question is very much an expression that closes up any possibility of knowing, or becoming conscious to a possible answer.

‘I know!’ is also of the same calibre and energy, stopping the conversation from opening to other avenues of exploration and understanding.

Retorts, that become such an intrinsic part of you, to such a point whereby you have lost sight or sound of them and are unable to distinguish them as separate from you, even when they are pointed out to you.

To have both of these happening inside creates an inner conflict, an inner battle that does not allow you to move forward or succeed with whatever you want to achieve without a lot of effort, force and stress.

Being able to become present to this inner conflict, to the constant use of them, is what will enable you to then transform them to being able to say ‘I am open to knowing; to being able to listen with different ears and hear something you have not heard before, in amongst things you probably have; to being able to create a bridge from where you are to where you want to be. :)