Posts tagged Consciousness
EFT Tapping: My Family Doesn’t Approve of Me
Oct 31st
One of the more common limiting beliefs people hold is that, “My family doesn’t approve of me.”
You may be aware that you believe your family doesn’t approve of you, or you may carry the belief around just under the surface of your consciousness, not really aware that you hold the belief.
Where do you get that belief?
It can be picked up when you’re an infant, before you have the ability to put thoughts into words. As a baby, youinterpretedthe facial expression, tone of voice and emotions of those around you.
Even in the womb, if your mother didn’t want to be pregnant or to have a baby, you could have picked up that belief.
As an infant, when those around you felt upset or angry, you felt their emotions. When the look on someone’s face was disaproving, you felt that disapproval.
Later, after you learned words, you interpreted their anger, disaproval or scolding as, “I’m bad. I’m not a good kid. There’s something wrong with me. I’m not ok.”
For many of us, we were told explicitly that we weren’t approved of.
What disapproving things were you told as a child?
As an adult, we might think, “My family doesn’t approve of me. I’m inadequate. I’m defective.”
Beliefs are simply thoughts that are repeated over and over and held to be true.
You can think of a belief as an obsessive thought. Or an unquestioned thought. We don’t generally question our beliefs; we just assume them to be true.
We often aren’t even aware of our beliefs, as they are so familiar to us. It’s difficult to question something you aren’t even aware of!
Are beliefs true?
A belief is no more true than another thought. In actuality thoughts and beliefs are neither true nor false. They simply are.
But beliefs have great power. Our beliefs have power because we don’t question them. We live our lives based on them. They influence our health, happiness and abundance in all areas of our lives.
Most of your beliefs are limiting. Do you have beliefs about how wealthy you can become?
How about how long you’ll live?
How about your limits because of your gender, your age, your race, your nationality, your education, your intelligence?
Your beliefs keep you from trying new things, from living as you dream, from making the income you’d love to make, from succeeding in areas you only dare to try.
Changing Beliefs Changing your beliefs can be challenging.
First you must discover just what your beliefs are.
Two ways to discover your beliefs are by observing your judgments and by noticing your disturbing emotions.
Under those will be limiting beliefs.
Then you can use the process of EFT tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to release limiting beliefs and instill new, more empowering beliefs.
How to Motivate Yourself Using Imagery
Oct 7th
I am going to share a couple of great techniques on how to motivate yourself to achieve a goal or stay motivated throughout a project.
1. Start by writing down a clearly defined, achievable goal or goals.
2. Visualise what it will be like to have achieved that goal. The easiest way to start visualising it to close your eyes and see, touch, feel, hear etc (in your minds eye) the thing you want.
To really stimulate your senses don’t just think about the thing you desire but try to picture yourself as having achieved that thing and what it will enable you to do.
e.g. if I had a financial goal of earning ?100k this year to visualise a pile of money would be ok, but a much more powerful way would to be visualising what I would actually be doing with the money. So I would picture me in a nice sports car, not just a general blurred image but a definite make, model, colour, who would be riding with me etc.
I would also take a holiday with the money, but not just a general beach holiday, I would visualise sitting by the pool with a cocktail in my hand, tasting the cooling drink, dipping my toes in the water, hearing the gentle splash of the water and wind blowing through the trees.
You can see where I am going here, I am immersing all of my senses in the place. Go nuts, really have a good daydream here!
Make sure you do this visualising as it is key to the rest of the process. It starts to make the thing become ‘real’ and achievable in your consciousness and attaches real emotions to the thing making it infinitely more powerful.
3. Write down all of the things you ‘saw, felt, heard, tasted’ etc in your visualisation.
4. Go on the internet and go to Google image search and find pictures of all these things. Adorn your computer with these images. Set one as your desktop wallpaper and create a screensaver. Print them off, and stick them up around your house etc. Place them where you can see them and throughout your day you will get regular reminders which has the following benefits:
Kkeeps the goal in the forefront of your mindReinforces the goal by repetition, making it strongerInvokes the emotions you enjoyed whilst visualisingPushes the goal/image into the subconscious giving it even more powerMotivates you to work to achieve your goal
Remember, what you desire will become real, this technique helps you to strengthen your desire by making it real and belief that you will achieve it.
