Blogger's Block

I am suffering from Bloggers Block. My process is quite simple. I sit for quiet meditation intending to connect to my Inner Being and receive any messages that I can share through a blog post. I usually get a word, a phrase, or an idea that I am later able to flesh out into a few paragraphs and share online.

Today it felt like I got no real messages. I do not know if I did not meditate long enough, or I did not go deep enough or stray thoughts were too disruptive, but the only idea I got was Bloggers Block, so I figured this was to be the topic for today’s post.

What do we do when we have blocks in our lives, when we feel the whole world is against us and we are fighting a losing battle?

The first thing that many of us do is to start the blame game. The first victim is the Self. Poor Self. It gets blamed for everything- the good, the bad, and the indifferent. Once we feel that we have chastised and berated ourselves enough, much to the chagrin of our Inner Being, we move on to the others. Here we have a whole smorgasbord to choose from. We start with our parents, for not loving us the way that they should have, for not giving us the things we needed to grow and thrive and be successful in life. We then move on to blame our partners, our children, our bosses, our politicians, our society.

We successfully find many reasons to explain why our current situation is the way it is. We decide that everyone should shoulder some of the blame for whatever is currently blocking us.

Our partner causes our misery. We are in a bad love situation but refuse to leave because we fear that anything else would be no better. Or even worse, we go apoplectic at the mere thought of ending up alone.

Our children cause our pain, suffering, and high blood pressure. They have not done enough to please us since they are busy pleasing themselves.

Our bosses, oh how we love to hate our bosses and we blame them for our low wages, our financial blocks, and our inability to advance economically.

Our politicians, they did not help to solve our problems. “They did nothing for me,” is a phrase I hear a lot, so it makes sense to put some blame there.

And then to make sure we capture everyone, we spread a wide net and blame our society for everything else that is wrong with us.

If there is any strength for a third round in the blame game, we then center our gaze on the Devil and on God. We accuse the devil for being a bad man and for causing us whatever pain and suffering being experienced and then we blame whomsoever we call upon as God, for forsaking us in our time of want.

Imagine the exhaustion at the end of it all!

And how did it make you feel?

Whenever we are experiencing some blockage in our lives, be it health, mental, emotional, creative, financial, whatever the perceived block is, I advise us to Stop, Sit, Get Quiet and Listen. The answer invariably comes.

Blogger’s Block, what blogger’s block?