You are NOT being punished by the Universe.

When things go wrong in your life, what do you secretly whisper to yourself?

Most of us who see and know the value of “staying positive” keep our thoughts and feelings pretty upbeat when things seem to be working against us.

But I would suggest that, buried underneath all that positivity, are some things that we hope like heck aren’t true, but we’re afraid they really are.

And until we acknowledge them, lurking under there, taking up all kinds of hidden mental and emotional energy, they have a way of gumming up our progress and becoming a central part of our inner resistance.

Here’s an example:

One of the deep fears I grew up with was that anytime I didn’t get something, I had the sense that the real truth was that I didn’t deserve it.

So all through my life, I had a huge resistance to asking people for anything. Because I was terrified to find out (based on them saying no) that I was still undeserving. And while I might accept their explanations of why they couldn’t give it on the surface, a deeper part of me would assume they were making up those reasons just to be nice, thus reinforcing the terrible truth I had tried so hard to avoid.

But for years I never knew what the underlying fear really was. I just couldn’t seem to ask for anything. I would distract myself from making the phone call, I would procrastinate, I would eat, I would watch movies, I would wait until it was too late at night to call or too short notice and then let myself off the hook and not do it.

Does any of this sound familiar?

It’s a classic resistance pattern.

And I believe these deep fears, that we never quite say out loud to ourselves, are at the bottom of most of our procrastination, if not all. The longer we put off the action, the longer we can avoid facing the possibility that our terrible fear is true.

But how do we get underneath these patterns to what’s really driving them?

It’s not very easy for most of us to just sit down one afternoon and get the answers to these kinds of questions.

We need a process and sometimes, in this murky territory of our inner world, we need support.

And I’m getting ready to offer both!

In the next day or two I’ll be announcing a 5-week teleclass called “The Wisdom of Your Resistance” that will help you find and release the hidden causes of procrastination so you can make real progress toward your most meaningful goals and dreams.

And you can do this through creating deep friendship with your inner self, not battle, and receive the incredible wisdom and guidance that your resistance has been trying to share with you all along.

AND, I’m going to be making 3 scholarship spaces available, so 3 lucky people will be able to get moving on their dreams for FREE! I’ll be sharing all the details of how to enter to receive a spot when I launch the class.

If you want the announcement to come straight to your Inbox, just Sign-Up Here and you’ll be the first to hear about it.

Until then, I’d love to hear about your experiences with procrastination and the fears underneath it. What are you hoping like heck isn’t true? Tell us in the comments below.