This is a mea culpa post highlighting that even I miss when my subconscious beliefs trip me up. I belong to a group of women, really a sisterhood, who get together monthly to create their intentions for the upcoming month. We meet at other times during the month to develop further our intuition and our ability to successfully create how we want our lives to be. So since November 2018, I’ve been writing out intentions that I read daily—many of which have come true. Others are repeated as intentions without much change <sigh>.
It happens to me, too.
Most of you reading this blog know that I help people rewrite subconscious beliefs that hold them back. Because of this, I am usually pretty quick to recognize a limiting belief when I see or hear one. It’s taken me quite a while to curb my enthusiasm and keep from pointing those out without an invitation to do so. (I still struggle with this and sometimes offer unsolicited tagging of beliefs, but I’m much better than I used to be.)
Knowing that my job is recognizing limiting beliefs, and then helping people to change them, you would think I would be a master at this for myself, right? Sometimes that’s true. Certain situations cause me to immediately start muscle testing myself to figure out what beliefs are tripping me up so I can change them.
And sometimes I miss what’s directly beneath my nose—and have been for years! These monthly intentions are one example of when that’s happened to me. I didn’t notice until last month that my written intentions were constructed like beliefs. And I hadn’t muscle tested myself with ANY of them to see what my subconscious believed. Talk about having one of those forehead smacking “I should have had a V-8” moments! It turns out that my subconscious wasn’t on board for about half of the intentions. No wonder I hadn’t seen any progress with some of them!
It’s easier to solve other people’s problems.
Have you ever noticed that it’s always easier to solve problems for other people than for yourself? Behaving this way is an aspect of psychological distancing. The closer you are to a problem, the harder it is to solve (or recognize or define). I’m sure you’ve all been able to give logical advice to friends and loved ones about their problems, but how often can you be so clear about it when the issue is yours?
Sometimes when people start talking about their problem, just the process of finding words to describe the issue brings them clarity about what to do about it. For people who journal, it’s the same thing—once you describe it, it’s easier to see how to change it.
Are you ready to shift your beliefs?
Part of my process with clients involves helping them decide what they DO want to be true. Defining what we DO want is often harder than recognizing what we DON’T want. If you have an issue you’ve been working on with little to no success, there’s a good chance your subconscious is also involved and causing resistance even when you’ve determined a solution. And I can help you. Book a session here and let’s see if you can get some of those situations changed.
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