HOW TO HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH: YOUR TRANSFORMATION STARTS HERE
As a high achiever, it’s important to you to be fulfilling your purpose. To be living in a way that is authentic and in a way that makes the best use of your strengths and the best use of your full capability. You know that you’re here to make a significant impact in the world and to those around you. That’s why dedicating your time and effort to your own personal growth is so important to you. You want to create lasting transformation, and you know that that starts with increasing your level of self-awareness and experiencing the breakthrough moment where everything changes.
Whatever your specific definition of having a breakthrough is, you know that it is possible for you to have one because:
> You’ve seen examples of other people’s breakthroughs.
> You’ve experienced a breakthrough yourself.
> From neuroscience research, you know that human brains have neuroplasticity – which means that your brain is capable of changing. Neuroplasticity means that you can change your mind (and your life): changing your brain leads to changes in your thoughts and emotions which results in a change in your behaviour. This in turn leads to changes in the results that you achieve and ultimately leads to your personal transformation.
Creating the Conditions
When you think back to a time when you experienced a breakthrough, what were the circumstances surrounding it? While having a breakthrough might not happen as easily as it is to google how to have a breakthrough, you can create the type of conditions that will support the process.
The biggest breakthroughs tend to happen when you:
💫 Learn to trust yourself – and to trust in the timing. Unfortunately, we can’t always schedule have a breakthrough into our calendar and expect it to happen on cue. Similarly, breakthroughs don’t always wait until we feel ready or wait until we have time available to devote to our personal growth.
💫 Remember that it is possible for you to choose to change and to create that change.
💫 Have made a commitment to your own personal growth and development.
💫 Stop trying to control how and when your breakthrough happens and simply allow yourself to be open to possibilities and opportunities.
💫 Let go of only trying to THINK of the “right” answers and instead start using all of the internal intelligence available to you (e.g. you connect with the wisdom of your body and your subconscious mind) to become aware of the opportunities and options available to you.
💫 Know that it doesn’t have to be complicated. You can allow it to be easier than you expected it to be. (Anyone else like to overthink things and make them harder than they need to be?! 🙋🏻♀️)
💫 Create space for something new to come in – both energetically and physically.
And to bust a few myths about having a breakthrough:
You don’t need to push through to have a breakthrough.
Yes, you need to have commitment and put in your time and effort – but it’s not helpful to feel that you need to push yourself harder (because you don’t).
You don’t need to have a breakdown to have a breakthrough.
I know. Sometimes a breakthrough feels like a breakdown because your identity shifts and you need to come to terms with the fact that who you thought you were, has changed.
You don’t need to have the perfect conditions.
All of the above conditions for creating a breakthrough are offered as a guide rather than a checklist. Everything doesn’t need to be just right before you can experience a breakthrough.
A Secret Strategy: Use the wisdom of your future self
A limit that we often come up against when we try to make a change and create a new habit or a new way of being, is that we try to do it based on the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of our current self-identity. Yet we know that our current way of being is how we have created our current results. The way that we are currently experiencing life is a reflection of our current identity. To achieve new results, we don’t just have to do something different. We need to be different. When we think different thoughts and feel different emotions, we’ll see different opportunities and take different actions. When we see things differently, we’ll get to a point where we have a breakthrough.
Try this:
Imagine the future version of you who has already had the breakthrough and undergone the transformation. What are the thoughts and feelings of that future version of you? What are their beliefs and behaviours? What would it take for you to become that future you?
Having a breakthrough doesn’t guarantee your transformation, but it’s an essential part of the transformation journey. And every journey starts somewhere.
Additional Support
Read: The Key to Lasting Transformation
Experience: Breakthrough Breathwork