3 Easy Tricks to Help You Fall in Love With Your Job Again

3 Easy Tricks to Help You Fall in Love With Your Job Again Article by Pete WheelanTrying to climb the corporate ladder? Warning It can be a dangerous distraction. Promotions dont always increase your job satisfaction or nurture your passions. In fact, the added responsibility can end up driving you further away from finding meaning in your work because youre too busy to even consider it.Americans in particular are under immense pressure to be chronically busy. Last year, 55 percent of the U.S. workforce left 658 million vacation days unused. If you value advancement but never figure out whether moving up will help you bring your passions to play in what you do, you might lose all sense of purpose. This is not an uncommon herausforderung fewer than 20 percent of leaders of organizations feel passionate about their individual purpose, and many of them cant even articulate what that purpose is.How do you find the passion that can fuel you through distrac tions and an exhausting pace?1. Note How Challenges Make You FeelEven if you love your job, some aspects of it will be difficult or unpleasant.As the saying goes, thats why its called work. You need to figure out how those challenges make you feel. Are the parts you hate the norm or the outliers?Connecting your work to a larger personal goal can help you avoid procrastination or laziness. Finding a job youre so passionate about that every task seems easy isnt a bad idea, but its an awfully high bar to clear. Its important to feel that the obstacles ahead of you are worth overcoming for reasons beyond a paycheck.To gauge how Im feeling about my daily challenges, I use a simple 22 matrix high or low energy and positive or negative mood. High/positive (in the zone) or low/positive (calm and relaxed) are the spaces I want to be in as often as possible. Something I feel highly energetic and positive about is a passion, whereas something I feel highly energetic but negative about is typic ally a major stressor. By consciously assessing patterns that emerge, I can identify the aspects I want to adjust or recalibrate.If youre feeling low energy and negative but need to push through, try my solution I head to an email folder I have labeled Fuel, where I save emails from grateful employees, students, and satisfied customers. These inspire me by reminding me why I do what I do to have a positive, tangible impact on the lives of students by helping them unlock their potential.2. Actively Create Opportunities to ReflectAt the end of each day or each project, evaluate how you feel about the way you spent your time. You probably wont be exuberant and energized every single day, but if you never feel that way or regularly feel frustrated and tired, you could look for a new job or you could draw on a deeper commitment to impact a broader big-picture goal that is deeply and personally meaningful to you.Reflecting in this way will help you see patterns of likes and dislikes, whic h will help you navigate a maze of opportunities to find the kind of future you want for yourself. In one study demonstrating this phenomenon, adults participating in a puzzle-solving game performed 18 percent better than their peers on consecutive attempts when they were given time to reflect on their past performance. This method of reflection has helped me make wiser career pivots.Case in point Over the course of my career, Ive worked for six companies. During three of those five job transitions, I took several months off to reflect on my passions and evaluate whether my next job would align with them. Often, the next opportunity I pursued meant taking a reduction in pay, level of responsibility, or title all things conventional wisdom advises against.When I left my job as a management consultant to start my own company, I traded a big salary, an office, and an executive assistant for working from my apartment with my cofounder unsupported and essentially without pay.By reflecti ng on my purpose, though, I found ways to calibrate my passions with what I would be doing for a living. This understanding allowed me to immerse myself in my work without reservations, even when making a zur seite hin gelegen move. With that kind of enthusiasm, the pay raises and promotions followed naturally.3. Tap Into Your Inner Circle for a Reality CheckAsk your partner, friends or family members for candid feedback about their perceptions of how you feel about your career and what your passions are. What topics do they frequently see you genuinely excited to discuss? When do they see you light up and get into a flow?You might think everything is going fine, but our loved ones are often better at understanding what makes us tick than we are. Take advantage of their years of knowing you to find out whether they see your passions lining up with your work.For example, say you really want to be excited about a promotion you recently earned, but instead youre feeling wary and anxiou s. Your close friends might be able to help you be more honest with yourself and figure out where the disconnect lies.Although you cant change the world or your life every day, by integrating your passions into your work using these strategies, you can consistently take incremental steps in the right direction. If you dedicate yourself to finding your passion and follow it wherever it leads youll never leave your desk at the end of the day wishing things were different.A version of this article originally appeared on SUCCESS.com.Pete Wheelan, CEO of InsideTrack, has dedicated his career to leading mission-driven, high-growth companies focused on helping individuals live up to their full potential. Before joining InsideTrack, he served as chief operating officer and chief revenue officer at Blurb, a groundbreaking leader in unleashing creative expression through self-published books.

Research into Kids Knees Could Prevent ACL Tears

Research into Kids Knees Could Prevent ACL Tears Research into Kids Knees Could Prevent ACL Tears Research into Kids Knees Could Prevent ACL TearsEvery fall football fans keep an eye on the news to watch for season-ending knee injuries. Over the last few years, torn anterior cruciate ligaments ended the seasons of stars such as Julian Edelman, Deshaun Watson, and Carson Wentz. While these injuries are high profile, the athletes most likely to suffer an ACL injury are the so-called pony-tailed hooligans. In the United States, the highest incidence of ACL injury is to females 14 to 17 years old, many of whom are soccer players. In fact, females of all ages suffer these knee injuries between two and seven times mora frequently than males.Read ASMEs Top Story Air Taxi Aces Test FlightKatie Kitchen, a research assistant at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, instructs a high school soccer player to perform a squat for a 3-D motion analysis assessment.Surgery is often required to repair torn ACLs, and surgeons are working with mechanical engineers to better understand the physiology of childrens knees in order to better repair the injuries, or avert them entirely. ansicht engineers and biomechanics specialists are applying techniques normally reserved for hard materials like steel to soft tissue.Ellen Arruda, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, has research interests ranging from mechanical behavior of materials including polymers, elastomers, and soft tissue to tissue engineering of tendon and muscle constructs and to modeling of growth and functional adaptation in soft tissue. But she also collaborates with surgeons who conduct ACL reconstructions.The most often cited reason for the increase in these injuries is an increase in the number of children playing sports such as soccer and basketball, year-round, sometimes on multiple teams at once, she said.Read ur Readers Pick YouTube Star Goes Viral with Glitter BombGreg Myer knows the value of engineers to surgeons. Myer is a biomechanist who serves as director of research at the Human Performance Laboratory for the Division of Sports Medicine at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, and he holds a position at the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati.Mechanical engineers can do many things to support the surgery, the first being helping surgeons select the correct ligament graft, Myer said. But Myer is also studying the way young athletes zulauf and jump and kick to find ways to learn how ligaments can be spared from excess stress to begin with.Were working on the prevention side, he said.The map of the knee looks more like a complicated interstate highway interchange than a simple joint, with four bones, thigh and calf muscles, bits of cartilage, and the meniscus that cushions the bones. Ligaments thread around and between the bones to keep the femur, tibia, fibula, and patella togetherbei and play a critical role in stabilizing the joint during loading.The ligaments include the posterior cruciate ligament, the medial collateral ligament, and the lateral collateral ligament. But the anterior cruciate ligament threads through the middle of the joint, making it difficult to see and susceptible to injury. Its the most-often torn ligament in the knee and in sports. Typically, the ACL is injured during landings that involve rapid deceleration and direction change.Full tears of the ligament tissue require complete surgical replacement if a return to physical activities is desired.Theres a lot of debate over the best graft for this, Myer said. The patella tendon that attaches the tibia to the kneecap is a common choice, and the hamstring tendon has increased in popularity, and then theres also the allograft from a cadaver.Listen to the All-New ASME TechCast podcast Innovations in Biomaterials Create New Roles for EngineersCurrent methods of ACL replacement generally work well, as they stabilize the knee and allow people to return to sports. But the graft replacement technique doesnt work for everyone, especially kids because theyre still growing. Grafts from a cadaver have the highest failure rates, with estimates of about 20 percent.We think the grafts are too stiff, Arruda said. Its usually an adult cadaver graft going into a young child, so its overdesigned for that child in terms of stiffness.The ideal replacement for a torn ACL restores native anatomy and function to the knee. Mounting evidence, however, suggests current strategies alter the biomechanics of the joint.Instabilities are thought to develop over time through a graft tissue that becomes more lax than the native tissue through loosening, mechanical degradation, or both.As a result, young athletes are at a greatly increased risk for a second ACL injury. Nearly one in four youths who return to high-risk sports sustain another ACL injury at some point in their career. For patients younger than 20, the increased ri sk for sustaining an ACL graft rupture is as high as threefold, with the risk higher for females than males.Read More on Innovation Drone Deploys in Just Minutes but Flies for HoursEngineers are working with physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals to better understand the biomechanics of ACL injury and how to repair it more permanently.Mechanical engineers can help with the tensile strength of the graft and help us learn how the graft degrades over time following the reconstruction and before it starts to build back up in strength, Myer said. From the surgeons standpoint, helping them understand the best grafts is probably the most direct link to helping in their selection for reconstruction.Experiment and SimulationKaitlyn Mallett saw this first hand, as she previously worked as a graduate student research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. With Arruda as her advisor, she went on to get her doctorate in mechanical e ngineering. Her dissertation research involved experimentally characterizing native ACL and replacement grafts to define their mechanical properties.Its a challenge researchers have been grappling with for decades.The ACL is actually quite complex, Mallett said. Its made up of two different sections that twist on each other, and as you flex the knee, it twists and untwists, but its always taut. Its very complicated to get the mechanical properties without relieving that tension.Understanding the relationship between the various parts of the knee requires a combination of experiments to characterize the mechanical properties of the tissues and plugging those values into a computer models that employ finite element analysis to simulate the stresses that running, jumping, and landing place on the joint. Even the model is informed with clinical data.The model starts with an MRI of the knee, Arruda said. We convert that into a finite element mesh and translate that from the MRI data file to volumetric elements used in finite elements. That involves taking every slice of the MRI and finding the outline of each tissue in the knee. We call that segmenting the knee.The model is made of elements that are deformable, so you create the overall geometry and break it into elements and then apply properties to each section, Mallett added.Read More on Bioengineering The Engineering Behind Brain ResearchTo obtain the data on the mechanical properties of the tissues, Mallett took donated tissue and cut out all the soft tissue except for the ACL. She aligned the ACL in a well-known loading state and then subjected it to tests to provide the mechanical properties needed for a computational model.Some of this may sound like working with traditional engineering materials, but Mallett said there are important differences. Ligament tissue doesnt display co-linear behavior like steel in the linear regime. The ACL has several different kinds of parts to it that dont behave the same way .Its also non-linear, meaning it doesnt exhibit a one-to-one response when strained. Soft tissue like ACL is compliant and begins to stiffen as you pull on it because it has a crimp in the fiber that straightens out.That nonlinearity is difficult to capture, Mallett said.It also exhibits a time-dependent response. If you pull it more quickly, it will behave differently than if you pull it slowly. By taking a large number of samples and pulling them to a certain distance, I was able to get the stress-strain curve, she said.Risk FactorsExperimental biomechanics is also helping inform the way post-surgery rehabilitation is conducted. Theory says rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction should focus on addressing the underlying neuromuscular problems that led to the injury. Myers lab at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital was established in part to put those theories to the test.Instead of just looking at the problem, Myer said, we look at the mechanisms causing it.Working with children and yo ung adults, the biomechanical engineers study these athletes as they mature to look for physiological changes. They also do full body motion analysis, and if theyre injured, they determine the biomechanics that led to the injury.Landing in a knock-kneed position is the number one risk factor for injury, Myer said.With this data in hand, the biomechanical engineers have begun to explore steps athletes can take to prevent injuries from occurring. Myers team recommends performing neuromuscular training, which is basically strength- and power-building exercises that translate into support to reduce the risk of injury.Our research has shown we can reduce ACL injuries by more than 50 percent by doing these, Myer said. Ultimately, we dont want the ACL to be loaded that much. We want the forces to be absorbed to the bone structures and the muscular activation.Read More on Teens and Limbs Young Engineer Takes Great Strides with Prosthetic FootArrudas team is looking at another knee injury ri sk factor repetitive loading. That means that ACL injuries are essentially a fatigue failure.Engineers know that in metals, repetitive or cyclic loading at a load lower than the yield or tensile strength can lead to failure. Biomechanical engineers at Michigan and elsewhere are studying fatigue in the ACL to learn more about these failures in pliable human tissues.How a ligament accumulates damage is still unknown, Arruda said. Once we understand that, we can start thinking about the concepts we apply in fracture mechanics of other materials to understand how much damage a ligament can tolerate.How would fatigue occur in a knee? If you play high-intensity sports year-round doing essentially the same move over and over again without sufficient rest and recovery time, you may be at risk as a young part of tearing a ligament, Arruda said. The overall hypothesis Im trying to explore is that the damage can and does accumulate, and healing can occur as well, given time.A third side of the knee equation is also coming into focus, Arruda said. Engineers are engaged in tissue engineering solutions to replace a torn ACL. Thats also something Ive worked on, again with collaborators including an orthopedic surgeon and faculty members in the med school.Their research has spun off a startup company called STEL Technologies to commercialize the technology. We developed a tissue-engineered graft that could be used as an ACL replacement that actually remodels and grows in vivo to restore native biology and function, she said.Armed with better knowledge of what causes ACLs to tear, trainers and physicians will be able to better prevent the injuries. Athletes will be trained to run, jump, and land in ways that spare the ligaments from overstress. Physicians will constantly monitor the knees for accumulating damage and prescribe measures to mitigate the risk.My vision is to one day have an MRI be a routine part of a young athletes annual checkup. Using a patient-specific computat ional model of the athlete and replicating her biomechanics, we can assess her injury risk, Arruda said.The hope is to one day relegate ACL injuries from the sports page to the history books.Tom Gibson, P.E. is a consulting mechanical engineer specializing in machine design and green building based in Milton, Pa. Read More Exclusive Stories from ASME.org Five Job Interview Questions Young Engineers Can Expect Lighter Axle Reinvents Drivetrain. Does motown Care? Engineers Making Waves in AquacultureMy vision is to one day have an MRI be a routine part of a young athletes annual checkup. Prof. Ellen Arruda, University of Michigan

How to Discuss Relocation in a Cover Letter and Resume

How to Discuss Reschauplatz in a Cover Letter and ResumeHow to Discuss Reschauplatz in a Cover Letter and ResumeAsk Amanda How Do I Mention Relocation in My Cover Letter?Each week, TopResumes career advice expert, Amanda Augustine, answers user questions like the one below from Quora and our Ask Amanda form. A certified professional career coach (CPCC) and resume writer (CPRW), Amanda has been helping professionals improve their careers for nearly 15 years. Have a question for Amanda? Submit it here.Q How do I address my desire to relocate for work in my cover letter and resume?Im about to abflug a job search and want to relocate. How do I approach the subject of relocation in my cover letter and resume? AprilGreat question, April Before you update your resume and cover letter for a long-distance job search, I suggest doing some online research to determine which job markets are healthy and have a decent number of job openings in your desired field. Its not enough to know you want t o relocate to somewhere warm search your favorite job boards to get a better sense of which locations not only meet your personal needs but also have a high demand for professionals in your line of work. Your current location will be less of an issue when your talents are in high demand.Once youve narrowed your search to a few locations, dig a little deeper to determine which is the right place for you to live. Reach out to friends and friends-of-friends who live in the area and can give you the inside scoop on what its like to live and work there. If possible, visit each city to get a feel for each area.Also, make aya you can afford to move to each location. Use resources like Salary.coms customized salary reports and NerdWallets cost of living calculator to estimate the salary range you can expect to earn in each location and determine if it will be enough for you to live comfortably in that area.How to discuss relocation in your resumeApply these relocation tips to your resume a nd LinkedIn profile, where applicable.Edit the location detailsIf youve narrowed your search to a specific locale, include the city, state, and zip code in your contact details at the top of your resume. If you havent worked in this city before, consider removing the location information for your employers within your resumes Work History section.Update your resume professional summaryTake advantage of the professional summary section of your resume, space previously reserved for your resume objective statement, to address your desire to relocate. Include a blurb similar to the following toward the end of your summary Interested in relocating to the greater location area. You can take it a step further and mention that youre willing to relocate to location at own expense to demonstrate to employers how serious you are about making such a move. If youre still on the fence about relocating for work, leave a line like this out until youve done your research and found a specific locatio n that interests you and is a realistic option, given your career and the locations current job market.Emphasize other aspects of your employersConsider adding a one-line company description underneath each employer listed on your resume that highlights the aspects each has in common with the companies youre currently targeting for your job search. This could be anything from the companys size to its industry to the types of customers it serves. The idea is to downplay the location of each employer by emphasizing other attributes that are relevant to your desired employer.Related How to Build an Employer Dream List for Your Job SearchHow to discuss relocation in your cover letterYour cover letter and the summary section of your LinkedIn profile are great places to add personal details about your desire to relocate that would seem out of place on a resume.While technology is making the world smaller and smaller, employers still tend to favor local candidates over out-of-towners when all else is equal. Why? Because non-local candidates typically cost more money to hire (i.e. relocation costs) and are often considered more of a flight risk. Use your cover letter to dispel any false assumptions an employer may have about your decision to relocate.Highlight your historyIf you previously worked or studied in the area, or if you have family living there, incorporate these facts into your cover letter. This information shows employers that youre already familiar with the location and will be comfortable living there. In other words, youve already begun to lay down roots and are less likely to jump ship as a result.Demonstrate your researchIf you havent lived in the location before, show the employer that youve done your homework on the area. When explaining why youre interested in the opportunity, drop in a detail or two that demonstrates what youve learned about the location and why it makes the position more appealing. By exhibiting the research youve done on the ar ea, youre showing the employer how serious you are about relocating.Indicate your familys supportWhile you dont necessarily want to go into the nitty-gritty details of your family, it doesnt hurt to mention that My family and I are committed to relocating to location to show your familys support of the move. If youre relocating because your spouse or partner was transferred to this location for work, be sure to specify this in your cover letter, as it may alleviate any fears the employer has about your genuine interest in relocation. How to approach relocation in your cover letter and resumeOnce youve updated your job-application materials to demonstrate your commitment to relocation, focus on developing a strong network of connections in your desired city to help you sidestep the ATS software and put your application directly into the hands of the recruiter or hiring manager. Click on the following link for more tips for conducting a long-distance job search.Need help positioning y our resume for relocation? TopResume can helpRecommended Reading6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Relocating for WorkWhat Is an ATS? How to Write a Resume to Beat the BotsDont Answer These Off-Limits Interview Questions

Sales Representative Job Description Sample

Sales Representative Job Description SampleSales Representative Job Description SampleSales Representative Job Description SampleThis abverkauf representative sample job description can assist in your creating a job application that will attract job candidates who are qualified for the job. Feel free to revise this job description to meet your specific job duties and job requirements. Then when youre ready, post your job on to reach the right talent act now and save 20% when you buy a 60-day job adSales Representative Job ResponsibilitiesServes customers by selling products meeting customer needs.Sales Representative Job DutiesServices existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade factors.Adjusts content of sales presentations by studying the type of sales outlet or trade factor.Focuses sales efforts by studying existing and potential volume of dealers.Submi ts orders by referring to price lists and product literature.Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, merchandising techniques, etc.Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems developing solutions preparing reports making recommendations to management.Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops reviewing professional publications establishing personal networks participating in professional societies.Provides historical records by maintaining records on area and customer sales.Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.Sales Representative Skills and QualificationsCustomer Service, Meeting Sales Goals, Closing Skills, Territory Management, Prospecting Skills, Negotiation, Self-Confidence, Product Knowledge, Presentation Skills, Client Relationships, Motivation for Sales.Employers Post a job in minutes to reach candidates everywhere. Job Seekers Search Sales Representative Jobs and apply on now. Discover TargetPost Skilled workers listing.

Pros and Cons of CAD

Pros and Cons of CAD Pros and Cons of CAD Pros and Cons of CADAn informal poll by Mechanical Engineering of approximately 25 engineers revealed that they have mixed feelings about CAD. Their comments inspired us to ask three prominent CAD users what they perceive to be the positives and negatives of the software today.All three agreed that CADs ease of use is both its best quality and its greatest drawback. Less experienced engineers can create designs that look perfectly manufacturable on screen, but cant actually be made.For instance, CAD allows users to simply mate two parts. They snuggle right up against each other, said William Durfee, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the design education department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In real life, theyd need to be welded, or adhesively bonded, or fastened with some type of fastenerits easy to forget that on the screen.With todays surfacing and other improved computer-aided design tools, engineers can more easily depict curved surfaces.Gordon Lewis, a principal at DaTuM 3D, a product-development company, agreed. We have customers come in here and say, My brothers grandson did this design for mecan you guys make it? We have to say, Sorry. It cant be built. The flip side is that the software can make a bad engineer a good one. Youre less likely to make a bad part than you were before, says Bernhard Bettig, a professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University.The same systems that give their less-experienced colleagues a leg up, give veteran engineers a bedrock technology to support their advanced designs. Aware of how a design will be made and assembled, theyre much less likely to come up with a part or product that faces trouble on the manufacturing side. As they create a design, they run a movie in their head about how it could be made, Durfee said.And then there are the designs themselves. In the early days, everybody tried to use CAD tools like theyd used their drawing boards. They couldnt do it because CAD had such restrictions, Lewis said. Twenty years ago, you saw designs that were very boxy because of the limitation of the tools. Today, we binnensee free-flowing shapes, contours, and blended angles.CAD has helped change mouse shape. The yellow box mouse (above) is from a mid-1960s Xerox Alto II XM computer. A contemporary mouse (below) shows the curved surfaces CAD design allows.Other novices, frustrated because they cant make such shapes, fall into a pattern of using the patterns that are easiest to carry out in CAD. You can whip up a rectangle with round things on it in 20 seconds, because those buttons are right there, Durfee said. CAD has evolved so its easier to make a double-curved surface than five years ago, but itll be a while before itll be truly easy to do. Thats why some engineers still sculpt a design in clay before bringing it into CAD.And digital design is slower than sketching. You fire up the CAD applicatio n and three minutes later youre making a rectangle. Twenty minutes later, youre coming up with your first idea, Durfee said. A good designer could come up with 100 fledgling ideas in that time.Durfee lauds the ease of documentation. An engineer fresh from a brainstorming session may have 100 ideas. Once CAD files, theyre automatically archived and documented. Once youve created something in a CAD package, youve committed it to a paper trail, Durfee said. Thats huge in things like medical design, where you have to track the process from day one. The average engineer isnt that excited about documentation, so its nice to have a system that does it for him.Drawbacks aside, Durfee, Bettig, and Lewis agreed that its an exciting time for CAD.Whenever hes frustrated by the limitations of the software, Lewis remembers his early days in industry. I can make and cost out anything you want to build, all on my laptop, he said. Its really Buck Rogers.Adapted from Pros and Cons of CAD, by Jean Thi lmany, Associate Editor, Mechanical Engineering, September 2006.Twenty years ago, you saw designs that were very boxy because of the limitation of the tools. Today, we see free-flowing shapes, contours, and blended angles.Gordon Lewis, a principal at DaTuM 3D

The scientific process to heal any emotional trauma

The scientific process to heal any emotional traumaThe scientific process to heal any emotional traumaIn Greek mythology, Medusa was a monster, often described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair.Those who gazed upon Medusas face would turn to stone.In a similar way, people who go through hard experiences can turn to stone, emotionally.As trauma expert Dr. Peter Levine has said, It is how we respond to a traumatic event that determines whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Medusa turning us into stone, or whether it will be a spiritual teacher taking us along vast and uncharted pathways.Weve all experienced trauma, whether we think we have or not. According to Dr. Lisa Firestone (emphasis mine)A trauma can be defined as any significant negative event or incident that shaped us. It can emerge from any impactful instance that made us feel bad, scared, hurt or ashamed. By this definition, we have all experienced some degree of trauma in the proce ss of growing up.Having suppressed emotions is another way of saying we have unresolved trauma in our lives.But what does this actually mean?How people become emotionally stuckIf youve had a hard experience in your past where something negative happened, or where you failed miserably, you might never step far outside your comfort zone again.In that case, youve become incredibly limited because of your past.Your emotions own you, rather than you owning your emotions.When this happens, your personality stops developing, and you become incredibly predictable as a person.Your life becomes quite repetitive.You may continue to develop mentally and cognitively, such as learning from books and school. You could have a head full of facts and knowledge, which are easily acquired in an information world. But emotionally, you are stone. You are frozen at the same level you were when you got hurt.If we never resolve the emotional pain, then we are forever damaged and crippled in our lives. As a result, we begin avoiding situations that would make us vulnerable to experiencing similar pain again.We become frozen in our development as a human being, unable to embrace and fully take-in new experiences.An easy way to examine your level of emotional maturity is how often you step outside of your comfort zone. If its rare to put yourself into the vulnerable position of not knowing the answers or how things will turn out, then you likely have trauma from your past that is holding you hostage - emotionally - and stopping you from fully developing your potential as a person.Research shows that the older people get, generally, the less open they are to having new experiences.In this article, Im going to break-down the science of how to overcome all emotional blocks and become emotionally-free.When you become emotionally free and flexible, you become far mora dynamic and fluid as a personality. Your ability to learn and adapt skyrocket.Your lifestyle and interests will continually change because you have the freedom to take on new things. Youre no longer hostage to your emotions.Youre not afraid of getting hurt.Youre not afraid of being wrong.In the words of Dr. Susan Jeffers, you know that regardless of what happens, You can handle it. Hence, she says we should, Feel the fear and do it anyway.According to educator Sir Ken Robinson, If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original.One of the primary reasons many people dont view themselves as creative is because art and creativity are emotional and vulnerable experiences. You have to put yourself out there. You have to try something that might fail.As a result, many people discard the idea altogether, claiming that some inherent part of their personality or genetics is simply not creative.This isnt true.Extreme creativity is available to anyone who is emotionally flexible and healthy.In fact, creativity is often the doorway to emotional freedom, because, through art and creativity , a person can courageously put themselves out there, and that very act of courage shifts a persons relationship with their emotions and their past.Shifting your relationship with your emotionsIts important to note that when it comes to healing suppressed pain or trauma, that you dont have to sit on someones couch and re-hash the past.Instead, you need to courageously move forward in your life.As you step outside of your comfort zone, you will experience the stress-response - fight, flee or freeze. Being out of the comfort zone is a beautiful experience because it is entirely physical and emotional.Its a full-on sensory experience - something many people stop experiencing as they grow older.The main reason this somatic experience arises is that when youre out of your comfort zone - or in a new situation where you dont fully know how things will turn out - youre in a state of uncertainty.Many psychologists argue that uncertainty is the foundation of all fears. This makes complete sense because our brains are actually designed to predict the outcomes of our behavior.Therefore, when were in a new situation, all sorts of physical and emotional red lights start to signal - our stress response. What our brain is telling us is that were in uncharted territory.It is your relationship with THIS EXPERIENCE - your stress response while dealing with new things - that reflects your level of emotional maturity.When you re-establish this relationship, you actually change your memories of the past.But you only change your memory of the past if you dont freeze up. Because undoubtedly, the act of stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying something new may trigger negative emotions and memories from the past.Youll try to sabotage yourself.But instead, you want to be psychologically flexible, which means you fully take in the experience, and move forward toward your goal anyway. In other words, you feel the fear and do it anyway.What youll quickly realize is that yo u can do hard things. You can handle it.Even if things fall unbekannt or dont work out the first time, you can figure out. You can commit to big things and you can keep those commitments, regardless of what you have to learn and become along the way.You can do it.This is how confidence is developed.But theres more.This is also THE ONLY WAY a person can become fully self-actualized.Breaking-down the process of self-actualizationAccording to Abraham Maslow, self-actualization is the emotional state of a person who is in a position to achieve their highest potential.They have had all of their base needs - physical, emotional, and relational - met. They are a healthy, happy, and mature human being.Having a healthy sense of self-esteem is great. But self-actualization is something totally different.You need far more than self-esteem to become self-actualized.There are lots of people out there who feel good about themselves but arent willing to pay the emotional price of expanding their personality.You cannot become self-actualized if youre comfortable where you are.According to Maslow, a key requirement to becoming self-actualized is having what he calls, peak experiences. He defined peak experiences as rare, exciting, oceanic, deeply moving, exhilarating, elevating experiences that generate an advanced form of perceiving reality, and are even mystic and magical in their effect upon the experimenter.Peak experiences are those moments that stretch and shift your perspective of yourself and reality.As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.The only way to have your mind stretched is to step outside of your comfort zone and have a new experience. In other words, peak experiences are simply those moments where you go through deep experiential learning.These moments of deep learning and transformation leave you in a state of awe, wonderment, and gratitude.You need to have these experiences regularly in reservierung to reach a state of self-actualization.Actually, you need to make having soul-stretching experiences your normal way of life. Because once this becomes your way of life, then you are completely emotionally-free and flexible.When you are emotionally free and flexible, then you as a person also become free and flexible.This doesnt mean that you no longer experience emotions or fears. Rather, it means that you are completely fine experiencing whatever is required to achieve what you believe you should, or what you believe is right.Youre no longer constrained by your emotions, and thus, youre no longer STONE. Instead, youre highly fluid and flexible, even spontaneous.Breaking the process down into bite-sized stepsCourage is the Gateway. This is where you start to see life as challenging and exciting instead of overwhelming. - Dr. David HawkinsWherever you are in your life, it will require courage to get to the next levelCourage means you proactively face risks and uncertainty in order to achieve a noble and worthwhile endCourage is ALWAYS the gateway to the next levelAs you courageously step into the unknown, youll experience the stress-response - flight, flee, freezeYou experience the stress response because your brain is designed to predict the outcomes of your behavior, and when youre in a totally new situation, you cannot fully predict what will happenUncertainty is the foundation of all fearsThe only way to truly be free is to embrace the uncertainty of moving forward in your life - of not knowing exactly how things will turn out yet remaining committed to your values and purposeBecoming flexible and successful while outside of your comfort zone is known as emotional flexibility or having a tolerance for ambiguityAs you step outside of your comfort zone and successfully move forward, youll have peak experiences which will stretch your perspective of yourself and even of realityThe more peak experiences you have, the more emotional ly flexible you will becomeAs you have new experiences, your memory of the past will changeYoull no longer be bound by your pastAll trauma or suppressed emotions will be goneYoull be healedYou heal yourself not by going backward but going forward (hence the best defense is offense)Once you get to the point where you are no longer in your own way, emotionally, then you are self-actualizedSelf-actualized people are those people who are willing to be and do whatever must be done to live their values and fulfill their purpose. They act courageously regularly. Daily.They are flexible and powerful.They werent born that way. Instead, they proactively chose, over and over, to become who they are.You can choose to become self-actualized yourself.But one thing is certain. Everything you want is on the other side of fear.You must be bold in your action.You cant be frozen to your past.You have to move forward.This will take courage.It will involve failing a lot and learning a lot.But with each step forward, youll have peak experiences. Those brief windows of time where youre in awe of everything. Life will become more spiritual to you.Youll develop a sense of mission and purpose.Youll stop overly defining yourself and what you can become and what you can do.Your potential will increasingly expand.Youll continuously watch yourself do things beyond what you previously thought was possible.Youll watch as your life continues to take on a new form, and as the goals you set are quickly realized.Are you going to take the journey?Its not easy.It never will be.And the fear is never going to go away. But for this, youre grateful. Because you know that this life is an educational experience. You have the emotional freedom and relational protection to go big.So youre going to go big - whatever that means to you.Ready to upgrade?Ive created a cheat sheet for putting yourself into a PEAK-STATE, immediately. You follow this daily, your life will change very quickly.Get the cheat sheet hereThis article first appeared on Medium.

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