When swimmers approach a pool they will often test the water with their toes to determine its temperature, which may alter their plans. When the surface, conscious, self contemplates a new course of action, the deep subconscious attempts to gauge the riskiness of such an undertaking by examining the akashic record (unbeknownst to the conscious self) for similar undertakings and looking for danger signs, in the form of traumatic emotion similar courses of action have generated. If it finds trauma, it seems duty-bound to communicate that finding in the form of stress and foreboding. If these emerging emotions are strong enough, they can discourage the conscious self into abandoning such plans altogether. As most humans are walking wounded, is this a major reason so many people are risk-averse and unmotivated?

This is very much the case. From the outside, it looks like complacency, but in actuality, what may be happening in many such individuals incapable of taking a positive step to improve themselves and their lives, this may be due to very intense inner conflict taking place within the deep subconscious well below conscious awareness, but nonetheless capable of hindering their actions. This is the great contest people have with themselves, that is typical and a major reason for limitations in people’s lives—lack of progress and success. They may simply feel stuck but actually, what is happening is there is an inner war taking place where the deep subconscious is seeing countless stop signs to discourage any kind of effective action, because it is seen as too risky and all the conscious level of the being will know is they are unable to move forward, nothing seems worth doing, there does not seem to be a wherewithal, or the energy required to make a decision. And the inaction becomes more and more prolonged and eventually may become a way of life where people simply give up and become complacent in accepting an undistinguished life, where they are accomplishing very little and never doing something more exciting to take on greater challenges, and thereby learn and grow and extend their reach perhaps far beyond what they thought might be possible. Many people become sidelined through being hampered by the inner conflict either of the deep subconscious seeing too many potential roadblocks and dangers, or the heckling and manipulation of dark spirit attachments within the deep subconscious undermining them, criticizing them relentlessly, and terrorizing them about dark possibilities, which can be a major distraction and impediment to effective action.