Stopping in the Grinberg Method
Stopping in the Grinberg Method is one of the main tools we use to deal with routines and patterns.
The act of stopping is very simple: We simply don’t do what we were doing before.
So simple as it sounds, it’s not easy to achieve. All our life patterns are working against this simple thing: We are programmed to continue, to stay, to be obedient, and to follow “the rules”. Then stopping becomes something subversive, that goes against all our believes, against all what we have been taught: How can we simply let go and not continue what we have been educated for during generations?
Stopping is something that is beyond our understanding:
How can I simply stop a relationship?
How can I simply change my life…
…if I’m not even able to stop a single heavy mood?
We live in a kind of “must“: I have to hold on to my contractions, to my moods, to my repetitive thoughts, to my vicious relationships (with people, with work…) – because this is what I know how to be. I live with them fully convinced that they’re absolutely real and unbreakable. I hold on to them, because leaving them is frightening. Leaving what I know – even if it hurts me – means to step into the unknown. But this is also the only way to start something new.
The path of freedom requires courage. If we want to stay safe, we never will be free. But when we become aware of the price that we pay to stay safe, stopping becomes a powerful and liberating act.
Stopping in the Grinberg Method is the fundamental concept in order to change patterns, .
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