Facing Profound Consequences: Let’s Talk About Quick Fix Mindset.
Inspired by The Gift of Sensitivity.
The current consequences we face, as I write these words in burning 40-degree Cyprus, span climate change to overall mental health challenges.
As we confront these pressing issues, it’s time to rethink our problem-focused approach.
How can we shift towards long-term solutions that require non-linear thinking and system-wide change?
The primary issue with Quick Fix
The primary issue with Quick Fix is that our former industrial savior now appears inadequate, does it not?
We now refer to such solutions as our “limiting beliefs.” These are decisions that once served us well but now either do not work or, more commonly, do more harm than good.
Relying on symptom-based medical treatments rather than boosting our immune system, which is the proper long-term solution for health, we may be able to add years to life, but the quality of this time could be challenging. We value quality these days as we get used to it already.
Problems fixation narrows our perspective to the point where we believe the world will only be good once we eliminate them without considering the underlying trends that led to these symptoms.
We tend to avoid long-term trends and appear to have lost the ability to understand the consequences of cause and effect.
What do we do instead?
Once we understand our old solutions become our limiting beliefs, we start … to eliminate them with the same passion we were begging for them once.
At the economic level, it declared a journey of greening the economy with the belief that “these are consequences of overpopulation and wrong technology, with the belief that “capitalists embedded in us during the industrial age.”
At the personal level, it’s declared a journey of self-liberation, with the belief that “This is not even my limiting belief; it was embedded in me during childhood.”
We often attribute these beliefs to various influencers — parents, teachers, bosses, and governments — blinding ourselves to the uncomfortable truth.
Like an iceberg whose vastness lies beneath the surface, these beliefs manipulate our actions like puppets on strings. Yet, once we begin to dismantle them, we have another limiting belief that our freedom is no longer constrained.
We consider the process of elimination a source of empowerment, offering hope and motivation for a brighter future.
We don’t think of ourselves as a solution and don’t feel we need to transform
We believe we just need to get rid of this belief, this solution, this toxic person from our life, this level of financial insecurity, this company, this politician, this government, and so on.
However, we stopped so many horrible things that influenced humanity, from slavery to mass-terminal diseases, hoping it would make us better people. Where is our freedom now?
We reside on a planet facing significant challenges characterized by limited resources, insufficient investment in sustainable life cycles, and a lack of long-term solutions for human survival and progress.
Relying on elimination, rejection, remediation, and disconnection serve as temporary solutions, which may result in the re-emergence of issues with increased intensity.
Let me explain radical responsibility
We can only intake what resonates with us. Otherwise, there would be no cause, right?
May I kindly ask you to read it again? “We can only absorb what resonates with us.”
Right now, Mo Gawdat and Steven Bartlett tell me that I am going to lose 8% of my audience straight from the next sentence. It’s okay!
My belief is simple: I take full responsibility for my life, including the time spent in my mother’s belly when I couldn’t decide what to absorb.
If limiting beliefs arise in my life, I owe them by resonating with them — not my mother, neighbor, or even the president of the country where I reside — just me.
If I want to find a solution, I need to go back to the point where I made a decision because the same door serves as an entrance and exit. As a collective, we need to do the same.
Instead of creating demons limiting our lives, we can try to free them, which means our shadows can become our best friends. This, however, requires an inner change.
Therefore, I consider resonances good, showing which place I was artificially protected before, applying healing or emotional processing.
The decision we make in difficult circumstances becomes the step we need to keep going; it saves us. All decisions are relevant to experienced circumstances.
Once the situation changes, beliefs no longer serve us
Beliefs are ultimately related to the emotional complex created by a difficult situation. Different emotional complexes allow for different decisions and beliefs.
While many people report that the elimination of limiting beliefs technique worked for them, it depends.
We may endlessly repeat, “I am not my body, I am not my mind,” but real change can start only when we realize the unity within body, mind, and soul.
My observations show that any solutions based on the mind work solely as a band-aid until we are triggered again.
It’s only a matter of time before experiences and distracting emotions resurface, so transformation is necessary.
Transformation means I step out of the level of duality and polarization because the solution never belongs to the level of the problem, and I do it emotionally.
Tony Robbins tells me that to “change my life, I need to change my state.”
I choose the mastery path. What about you?
My emotional state is the key.
I must achieve psychological and mental peace to cease reacting and attempting to fix the world. I must decide whether to stay a manager of circumstances or become a master of my life.
Identifying trends and my role within them to enhance natural processes requires mastery of the alignment.
Survival mode hinders this alignment.
Processing my emotions is the initial step towards feeling secure during my journey for the best decision, akin to sages addressing tribal crises.
Radical acceptance
Become a tranquil center, like the eye of the storm. To work on a limiting belief or decision that no longer serves you, we need to accept it and stop working against it by labeling it incorrect and eliminating it.
Instead of eliminating them, we need to accept our old decisions and beliefs, validate them as correct for past situations, and thank them with a deep understanding that the decisions work as a defense that we have created.
The decision could be released if we are strong enough and no longer need the protection. However, we must dive back into the problematic situation to ensure that we are healed and base our solutions on healthy emotions.
We don’t have to put in much effort. Life will still present us with the same emotional cocktail when we are presented with tests, so why bother?
The next point is that if we don’t want the actual situation to happen, we can force emotional work mentally.
In this case, we could intentionally do psychological work to ensure that we process emotions and transform decisions.
Begin the search today by asking yourself about your emotional state
Determine if you need to sit alone and spend enough time for yourself to accomplish the work and make long-term change achievable.
Decisions I take from a survival mode differ from those from a psychological safety level as black and white.
Nothing hinders us from altering humanity’s state by committing to making decisions from an emotionally healthy mind.
They are not “these people”. They are you and me.
We both know that old reactions will not open new doors.
Let’s step on the giant shoulders and say: “If you want to change the world, change your emotional state.”
What’s next? Creativity, innovations, amazing human-centered technologies, and much more.
We just need to become ready for it!
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