Stuck Between Two Choices? Why Indecision Drains Your Energy
Have you ever found yourself stuck between two options, replaying the same questions over and over in your mind?
Should I stay or should I go?
Should I leave this job or keep going?
Should I move, end something, begin something… or wait?
This state of indecision is something I see constantly in my mindset coaching and manifestation work. I call it the land of limbo, that exhausting in-between space where nothing feels settled, yet no decision feels safe enough to make.
While it might look passive on the outside, internally it’s anything but calm.
Why Indecision Is So Draining
When you don’t make a decision, your nervous system doesn’t rest.
Your mind keeps looping through worst-case scenarios.
Your body stays in a low-grade stress response.
Your energy is split between fear and possibility.
From a nervous system regulation and law of attraction perspective, limbo sends out mixed signals. There’s no clear direction, no commitment, no grounded intention. Energetically, life often responds with more uncertainty, more confusion, and more of the same.
Indecision becomes a holding pattern.
Head vs Heart in Decision Making
One of the biggest reasons people get stuck is the battle between the head and the heart.
The head is brilliant at logic, risk assessment, and keeping you safe. But it’s also driven by past experiences, fear, and imagined futures.
The heart, on the other hand, communicates through the body. Through sensations like relief, expansion, calm, or contraction. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t over-explain. It simply signals alignment or misalignment.
Learning to listen to this internal compass is a powerful part of conscious decision making and embodied manifestation.
Fear or Discernment?
Fear is loud, repetitive, and catastrophic.
Discernment is calm, grounded, and practical.
Fear shuts things down.
Discernment asks how.
Understanding the difference can change everything, especially when you’re making big life decisions. This is something I explore in depth as a manifestation coach UK, because clarity doesn’t come from forcing certainty. It comes from learning how to listen inward and then move with intention.
Listen to the Full Episode
I explore all of this in much more depth in Episode 138 of The Salarah K Starre Podcast:
The Land of Limbo: How to Stop Going in Circles.
In the episode, I talk you through:
Why indecision keeps you energetically stuck
How to use your body as an inner compass
The difference between fear and discernment
Why there’s no such thing as a wrong decision
How movement stabilises your energy and supports manifestation
🎧 Listen to Episode 138 on your favourite podcast platform now.
If you’ve been circling the same questions and craving clarity, this episode will help you step out of limbo and start trusting yourself again.
