Hello and welcome to day two of my seven day releasing the resistance challenge helping you get unstuck, so you can go with the flow. Today's topic is all about sabotage and the ways in which we sabotage ourselves. There's an amazing book that I really recommend you get. It's called the big leap by gay Hendricks, in a gay talks about our different brands of sabotage, and why we sabotage ourselves. Ultimately, because as humans, we haven't really been evolved for that long in terms of our conscious brain to have extended periods of happiness. So when you think about it, as a species, we've evolved quite extensively, but we still have that really primal fight or flight response that's hardwired into our brain, to expect danger to expect that we have to fight to survive.

So really, it's only been the last couple hundred years where we've really been able to have extended periods of happiness without shit hitting the fan. He's my friend. So as a result of that, we kind of we end up seeing sabotaging ourselves because we all have individual upper limits of happiness around how much money we can earn around how happy we can be in a relationship around happiness in general, before we kind of pull ourselves back into line by sabotaging ourselves in some way. So in the book guy kind of opens the book by talking about his own personal brand of sabotage, which is worrying about things. And that's kind of how he discovered the upper limit problem. He was, everything was going really, really well in his life.

He was absolutely loving life. And then out of nowhere, all these worrying thoughts came into his mind about his daughter. And he thought, Oh, that's really interesting. I wonder where that's come from. And he really started unpacking that, and exploring where it came from. What he realized was that each of us have our own individual brands of sabotage.

So you might have a windfall for example, and you might bring in lots of money, unexpectedly, and then all of a sudden You've got a bunch of bills out of nowhere or your washing machine blows up or you know, you've got some big expense that that requires you to use all that money to bring you back into line. But suddenly you don't have that money anymore. You might just be about due for a promotion at work, but you have a cap on how much you think he deserved to earn. And so maybe you quit or you get fired or something happens where you don't take that promotion. So it stops you from going to the next upper limit or upper level, pushing through the upper limits. You might work really hard and then get sick or you might get like sick before you're about to have a breakthrough, something maybe something amazing is about to happen.

That's one of my personal brands of sabotage is that I for some reason, my subconscious creates some kind of illness usually like a headache or a migraine, before something amazing is about to happen. And I caught myself out doing that last year which I explained in the worksheet. So when you realize that you're actually upper limiting, you can push through that barrier and get excited. about the fact that wow, if this is an upper limit that I have, once I've moved through this limit, I wonder what's on the other side, because it's usually happening as a result of being like, teetering on the edge of a breakthrough. So today's worksheet is really exploring that really unpacking what your personal brand of sabotage is. And there's a link to a quiz where you can actually find out whether you are sabotaging yourself or not.

And whether that that's why you're showing up in resistance energy at the moment. So I hope you enjoy day two, and I look forward to seeing you on day three.