Not going ahead with what you originally set out to do is a classic example.
When you give up half way on a dream, you safely put it down to sabotage.
When you cannot do something that you really ought to be able to do, this is sabotage.
Allowing insecurities to control your life, becoming lazy and complacent, or having a negative attitude towards yourself and others, all can be signs of sabotage. They are signs you must learn to recognize. If not kept under control, you end up sabotaging every plan you make, and eventually every thought you think.
Change is a positive word. It tells you something exciting and different is happening or about to happen in your life. Making alterations in the present to help fulfill wishes of a better future may appear enough to drive your ambition temporarily. But in order for real, transitional change to occur, you must be willing to make sacrifices in your life. In other words, you must be willing to give up something, or perhaps many things. The reality about symptoms is: they provide pleasure and satisfaction on a mental, physical and emotional level. Because satisfaction provides a means of replenishing mental energy, it can make it difficult to give up or sacrifice the very things in life that give you pleasure. Indeed at some level, you enjoy, maintain and protect your symptoms from change. In hypnotherapy, this is called secondary gain, and is a common cause of problems.
Protecting and nourishing symptoms may appear illogical and dissatisfying to the well-adjusted person. But unfortunately it’s a common feature in all of us, and a trait which can take on many deceiving and illusionary forms; tricking us into believing that somehow we are changing when we are actually not. In order for real change to occur, you must be willing to sacrifice the pleasure of staying put in the comfort zone.
It may come as a shock to realize that you’ve been deliberately sabotaging your attempts to change up to now. Consciously you may want to change, but subconsciously it may be the very last thing on your mind. Sacrificing pleasure by giving up the comfort of thinking and acting in the same way you’ve always done, is what establishes the right conditions for change to occur. By not giving in to your deeper mind’s every demand to nourish symptoms, whether this be through your thoughts, words or actions, you then encourage a healthy, driven desire to manifest in you. This enables energy to be invested productively, instead of being wasted in the maintenance of a symptom.
If symptoms are to be sacrificed, the life-changes being made by the individual must involve substitute satisfactions: ones that are equal or more gratifying than the destructive ones currently being used. The healthier substitutes are found in the external reality that is life. Through social interaction, and healthy, challenging activities, mental energy is encouraged to function normally and beneficially. By acknowledging that certain symptoms are providing satisfaction, you quickly learn to spot-check your thoughts for sabotaging behavior that only makes you give in to your symptoms demands. By doing so, you will begin to recognize the repeated habitual trends that discourage positive change from happening. By not giving in to your symptoms demands, your subconscious will quickly learn that change is good, albeit difficult at times to do. Desire for change will become the new demand of your subconscious; a healthy demand that involves activity to satisfy it.
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