Into the Mystic

In a previous post:  The Concepts of Energy Working, Transmutation and Release Work of Negative Imprints and… I introduced how negative messages/energy imprints can function as blockages preventing us from achieving our full potential and success in life.

This is the second installment in a series of articles that I am sharing to assist those that have difficulty taking leaps of faith and accepting opportunities in a timely fashion that could lead them on a path to fulfilling their desires of personal success.

Astrologically we are approaching a time of very dynamic energies that shall offer productive opportunities for those that have the courage to utilize these energies and opportunities in a timely fashion.

These forthcoming transits are of special interest to those with planets/angles in the late mutable and early cardinal signs for they have been intensely impacted by the Saturn square Pluto transit and much of their personal world has been deconstructed in preparation for new growth, expression and function to come forth.

If you have been doing self-work in the area’s related to self-esteem, trust and/or change and have yet to achieve your desired results then what I am presenting here may be what you need to shine some light on issues that you may have not yet seen as possibilities as to why you find it difficult to accept changes with ease.

This article expands upon negative imprints that were received via messages in childhood that can hamper our achieving success in our adult years.

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When embarking on the path of conscious self-healing one of the first concepts we learn of is the need to be aware of negative thought forms.

Many spend years diligently monitoring their thoughts, practicing positive expression and sifting through their emotional and mental bodies to release any blockages residing within themselves yet still find there is something there that appears to be blocking them from success in one or more aspects of their life.

When this is the case we have to go deeper into the unconscious to locate the source of blockage and on occasion what we find is an energy imprint that on first review appears completely innocuous in nature, yet in actuality is a false positive imprint that functions in a self-sabotaging manner and hinders us from taking actions that would help us to progress and reach the goals that we wish to achieve for ourselves.

Most negative messages/imprints are easy to uncover and work through for they contain certain words that are obviously dis-empowering.

Messages such as  “You’ll never amount to anything” and “You never do anything right” or “You’re stupid, just shut up” tend to set off red flags.

Other messages though can be veiled in positive wrappings and are not as easily identifiable.

These types of messages I term false positives.

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False positives are often not recognized in having a negative impact in our lives due to our receiving them from an authority figure that we trusted to protect us through our childhood years.

In fact, many of these sorts of messages came to us from people that had no intentions of causing us harm and were unaware that the message they were sharing could have negative connotations for us for they were simply repeating something that had always been viewed as productive wisdom within their family/culture.

While preforming energy healing services I have found a high number of chronic energy blockages in others due to these false positive messages.

False positive messages can be found in some to be at the root phobia and chronic anxiety disorders.

When this is the situation, it is likely the person experiencing these reactions will have a tendency to analyze situations presenting far beyond what is considered necessary to be of good discernment in an attempt to prevent an anxiety reaction from occurring.

Yet with opportunities presented to us from external factors time is usually of the essence and those that tend to over analyze and procrastinate beyond normal measure often find they are repeatedly left empty handed due to their inability to act in a reasonably timely fashion with decisiveness.

Though many are well-qualified for a position in life they wish to achieve, they never attain the outcome they desire for they procrastinate on taking the necessary steps and accepting opportunities offered by others to reach their objectives, due to a variety of self-limiting fears instilled by these false positive messages seeded within childhood.

When one repeatedly “misses out” on opportunities a lack of self-esteem is often the resulting development and once this occurs it can be difficult to get oneself out of this self-defeating pattern.

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As an example of a message that I consider to be a false positive I will share one that I received regularly in childhood and came to find many years later was functioning as an unconscious blockage and limiting my personal success:

“If you do that once you will always be doing that.”

This little phrase seems harmless enough and especially to a child when there are no obvious words of restriction contained within it.

As a child I am certain I registered this phrase as being in my best interest and as being valuable wisdom offered that would afford me protection within what my elders viewed and projected as a dog eat dog world.

Yet many years later I came to realize the implication I registered with this phrase was that if I preformed a certain task for someone or achieved a certain level of success in any area of my life I would always be bound to preform said task or to continue to meet or better the benchmark attained of a certain success.

This early message was also fertile ground from which sprung later fears of never having the choice/right to rescind commitment/participation to any person/situation regardless of current circumstances once I had pledged my involvement to said person/situation.

On a far deeper level this message also served to instill in me a belief that if I were to commit myself to someone or thing that I was then at the mercy of fate from that point forward within the relationship established, be it with a person or other responsibility, and had effectively turned over my personal power to an other or a thing and must do whatever was required by them/it from that point forward .

These fears were unfounded though and just served to limit my life experiences for we have the inherent right of making new choices each and every moment and at any given point we can rescind our commitment through the exercise of free-will.

From one little message a slew of other self-defeating patterns were sprung.

In retrospect I can now clearly see how many opportunities I have allowed to pass me by due to limitations imposed by this tiny and seemingly innocuous phrase that once was intended to protect me.

Opportunities that may have secured earlier success in certain aspects of my life had I been courageous and self-assured and taken a leap of faith at the proper times.

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So what can be done to bring to light any messages that function as negative imprints and self-limitations?

1. Keep a Journal

Often when we write within a journal we are in a space of feeling and do not form our thoughts or words in a manner to please others so we are more likely to pick up on red flags that signal inner dysfunction.

Review your journal from time to time and be attentive to any phrases or thoughts that you tend to repeat on a consistent basis.

Take a closer look at the phrase in question and ask of yourself these questions:

(a) Is this a phrase that you have uniquely formed or is it borrowed from another(s)?

(b) Even if the words are all of an appealing nature in and of themselves when you use this phrase is it generally when you feel unpleasant?

(c) If so, is this phrase empowering you and bringing forth a better state when you use it or is it an ’empty phrase‘ one used out of habit and lacking any beneficial energy?

If you find a phrase to be empty or one that incites an anxiety or depressive response have a closer look at where you learned this phrase and evaluate if it is still a beneficial message to act from today.

Do not overly concern yourself with the who’s, what’s and why’s of this message for it is likely not to serve much purpose.

Simply decide yea or nay as to if you want to continue to embrace this message due to it’s potential for assisting or limiting your quest in achieving your goals and well-being today.

2. Enlist a partner

Sometimes the best way to identify the more illusive patterns within ourselves is by having them brought to our attention by another.

Share with someone close to you that you spend a lot of time with and/or tend to speak openly and honestly with.

Fill them in on your intentions to uncover any detrimental energy patterns that are unconscious to you.

Often by just sharing your intent, the Universe responds and utilizes another as their ‘personal’ messenger allowing incredible assistance and information to come through in amazing speed.

You may be surprised too, to learn that the one you’ve asked for assistance is already holding the key you need and has just been waiting for the opportunity to deliver it.

3. Observe your words and thoughts but do not censor them!

Yes, flies in the face of more conventional teachings of positive intention techniques, but I am a firm believer that to see something for what it is we cannot wrap it up in pretty sparkles for that only places the ugly in a different package and we’ve done nothing but move about the unwanted energy pattern.

Let it come up, out and all about in any way it feels like coming forth!

Do your best not to spew on anyone. 🙂

During these phases of release work, it often helps to bounce these things with someone else ,and brings to light what needs to be seen much faster when we allow ourselves to verbalize these things in full living color.

If you have no one in your personal life who can handle being what you need, in other words they become too emotional or think it is about them and take offense easily, get a proxy ‘release-work bouncer’.

Many in the healing fields, especially energy workers, myself included are quite capable and happy to play the proxy roles necessary for others to effectively do their release work.

Once you see the truth of something, no matter how ugly that something may appear to be to you, you are now able to rework that ugly into something beautiful in fast order or to just dispose of it completely if you so choose.

4. Take the time to consider if it is truly beneficial for yourself and/or others to confront the one(s) that passed you any negative messages you uncover before acting upon it.

This I simply share due to the fact that what is harmful to one may still be of benefit to another.

I have learned this through trial and error.

My attempts to shine a light for others in certain past experiences just left me with more issues to be dealt with after my not-so-well conceived attempt at being helpful when what I was truly trying to achieve was resolution and closure for myself.

We live and learn.

My advice in this situation is to find what you need to know and do what you need to do.

Be open to sharing your knowledge and experience with anyone that comes forth and/or share through certain avenues that allow you to be in your ‘space’ and trust that whomever needs what you carry will come forth.

I feel the Universe does a fabulous job of matching students/teachers when we relax and trust in it.

I have personally never found it to be of benefit to be aggressively confrontational with another even with the best intentions .

This includes confronting a source(s) in a well-intentioned yet misguided attempt to enlighten them as to their error in propagating a message that was detrimental to my well-being.

5. Muscle Test and Strength Train that Decisive Muscle

Start by honestly assessing your past performance concerning your ability or inability to exercise  decisiveness and take leaps of faith when opportunity knocks.

You can do this by making a simple chart.

Create four columns and label each column as such:  Desired Success/Opportunity Presented/My Response/Outcome

Chart your previous experiences and allow the chart to show you where you may need improvement.

Take positive action to turn your negatives into positives.

For instance, if you are one that has consistently been a maybe responder and the consequence of this was lost opportunities make the commitment to giving only yes and no responses.

You can start with small everyday decisions that arise and work your way towards being able to respond yes or no to everything with full confidence and trust that you have made exactly the right decision for yourself in the current circumstances.

Remember, we always have the right to make another choice at any time we so choose! 🙂

When working your opportunities/success chart, if you should find a pattern of opportunity anxiety freeze either within past experiences or occurring in your current life, stop and ask yourself what the blockage/message is that is causing this freeze and limiting your ability to say yes to beneficial opportunities/changes.

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May you find yourself embracing all of the wonderful opportunities you deserve and and achieving the success you desire in all area’s within your life! Kachina