I did a workshop this weekend. It was emotional freedom technique level 2. This weekend was like undergoing personal therapy for twelve hours. Level 2 teaches the participants how to access your core issues by getting in touch with your subconscious mind (which runs you 95% of the time versus the conscious mind which runs you 5 % of the time!) and works on reprogramming it. This is so important. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. It contains beliefs that you learned in your first six years of life. Bruce Lipton who is a brilliant scientist on the planet right now states that your propensity to develop a serious disease is set by the age of six…isn’t that crazy?!

Yes, we are at the mercy of our subconcious programming to a point until we become conscious of it and learn tools to work with it. We can reprogram the tape player so it plays a tape that supports our health and healing. EFT is one tool that can access the subconscious mind and work with it. It can release the energy tied up in the subconscious and liberate it so the individual is free to live an empowered conscious life. EFT is like acupuncture without the needles; psychological acupressure that allows for optimal energy flow along meridian pathways. It is simple and effective; this technique helps release energy that has been stored in the body preventing optimal health.

This workshop as mentioned was fairly intensive. What struck me though was the courage that people had to be vulnerable in front of other people. The instructor was at the front and would often seek audience members that wanted to work on personal issues. All of the people that went to the front had tears flowing. These individuals that had the courage to be transparent in a group full of strangers should be commended. It is not easy to be this vulnerable but the people that bravely went to the front of the room gave us so much of their heart and soul. I thanked one particular women after the class finished telling her that her bravery allows us all the courage to be more vulnerable in the future. What all of us need to see and be with each other is vulnerable and real. We have to take off our masks and let people see who we really are. Who we really are is individuals wanting to connect with other individuals hoping to be loved no matter how vulnerable we may appear in any given moment. This is the courage to be vulnerable. Bravely offer your love to someone who has shown the courage to be vulnerable in  your life. I can tell you I am gathering courage to go to the front in a level 3 workshop….

It is time to take the power back regarding your health. For hundreds of years, you have put your health in your doctor’s care. The world needs doctors; they are a necessary cog in the chain of health care. They have a valuable role to play. But, realize that you have to some degree, put your power outside of yourself, in someone else’s hands. The whole health care system is built on this structuring of power, where the patient has the least amount of power; therefore, their fate lies in someone else’s hands. It is time, to take back the responsibility for your health. Your chronic thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and your emotional habits all affect your health. When you see some of the reasons behind creating imbalance in your body, you can begin to shed some light on how you heal it. Illness is a gift and it is a catalyst for your transformation. No one else can do the work of personal healing, but you. A prescription may buy you time but it will not get to the root cause. It is up to you to undertake the job of self exploration, self examination and the pursuit of self knowledge, because, herein, lay the secret to curative actions. Here is the grand paradigm shift, required in health care, and it will be vehemently opposed by many, who would desire to abdicate responsibility for their own health. But for those of you desiring deep healing, this is how it works.

This journey of personal healing never ends…In my quest to heal every aspect of my life, what has been coming up for me is yet more old beliefs that need to be let go of. Every time that I think that I have excavated my inner landscape ad nauseum…I unearth more old beliefs. I was having a bath the other night thinking about my childhood and all of a sudden, an old belief surfaced. The belief was ‘no matter what I do, it is wrong.’ I clearly saw that this belief still operates in my life; in fact, it operates in many different corners of my life. I have trouble making decisions in my life… no wonder, if this belief lurks in the depths of my subconscious…I make a decision and then think that I made the wrong decision. I often reverse my decisions. I can see why I do this now! ‘No matter what I do, it is wrong.’ I have flashbacks of staying in relationships that were far past their expiration date yet having a heck of a time leaving them. ‘No matter what I do, it is wrong.’ Unearthing this old belief explains a lot…

I see this belief in my working life. If I have an idea that comes from the place of inspiration and I know it, I am still flooded by doubts when commiting to the idea and carrying it through to completion. When I am focused on my working life, I never feel sure that the path that I am on is the right one. ‘No matter what I do, it is wrong.’ I see a carbon copy of this belief in every aspect of my life. This belief immobilizes me and takes me far away from my knowingness; my intuitive connection to my higher consciousness so thank God it came forward to me so I could work on healing it. Even recognizing it is a major a-ha. Can I trace this belief back to my childhood? I expect so but I can’t be sure of when it started. My mom told me that when I was playing in a soccer game when I was in grade 5 the ball hit my leg and went into my own team’s net. I was so ashamed believing that it was my fault that I left the game and ran all the way home. I lived 3 miles from school to put things into perspective. I was trying my best in the soccer game…maybe this was where my belief was created ‘no matter what I do, it is wrong.’ I think it probably started before I was consciously aware of it. The point is to acknowledge these old beliefs, make them conscious and create new beliefs that are empowering so you can move forward in your life. A new empowering belief might be, ‘no matter what I choose to do, I am worthy of love and acceptance.’  The young child that learned the belief ‘no matter what I do, it is wrong’ that caused her suffering is an adult now and capable of creating beliefs that are healing to her mind, body, and soul.