Avoidance of the real world is a significant training problem. Only sticking with the “home alone” practices and never bringing the awareness and changes into your everyday life won’t bring you the desired results.

Usually, this happens for two reasons:

1 – There’s a big resistance and blocks to the external work.

This is when you recognize that you have fear or anxiety about going outside and using any external technique. It’s very evident when it happens since your body will rebel against doing something and will do its best to avoid it. Just like if you were asked to walk into a pit of snakes unless you were physically forced, you’d most likely abstain from it.

And that’s okay; we can work with fear and anxiety. These energetic reactions from your body can be worked with and unblocked, just like any other defense mechanism.

The second reason why students avoid real-world practices is much harder to heal.

2 – Lack of honesty with yourself and protecting a fragile ego.

By bringing this work to the outside world, you risk failure. I would even go as far as to say that failure is an inevitable part of the work since no one learns anything without failing. Some people are not ready for that.

It’s much easier to create an illusory world where you have power and magnetism than to face reality and understand that you don’t.

But only with honesty can you actually improve. If you’re not magnetic, that’s perfectly fine. It’s the start of the work: own that and understand why.

If you are stuck in an illusory reality to protect your ego, then you can’t really do much work since you won’t be present and aware of what is happening in your experience.

It’s a much harder defense mechanism to become aware of and neutralize.

Honest, real, outside, everyday life work is necessary for the development of magnetism and to understand yourself and your energy. If you’re not doing that, make sure you understand why.