When I talk to people about “The Slowdown” (that time in your life when NOTHING seems to be moving, no matter what you do) I intuitively know that they are being held back not just with global energies, but by the residue of past abuse and trauma that have lodged limiting core beliefs in the subconscious. A number of people on a Teleclass I did on 11/11/11 told me that something they had been working on for ages finally shifted on that call.
Every single one of us has suffered in childhood and some in adulthood, in this life and in past lives, emotional, psychological, verbal, physical, sexual abuse,neglect and trauma in some combination or permutation. Changing the subconscious programming that was embedded at the time these experiences occurred is key to being able to feel safe and permitted to move forward into our destiny.
The call I mentioned was a Teleclass called Stepping into Your True Life The focus of the call was Navigating The Stress ~ The Slowdown ~ The Shift.
On that call I introduced an energy shifting, healing process I developed from my WHAT IF…? Quantum Questions concept. This process is used to clear limiting beliefs and I underscored the importance of following limiting beliefs down to the core issues they arise from.
During the Q&A on the call a young woman named “Ally” asked, ‘How do I know I’ve found a core issue?’ I’m very certain that my time-constrained response was inadequate. I want to amplify my response so that this important issue is clarified.
So Ally, this one’s for you—with my apologies.
Core issues are founded on the conclusions we have drawn about ourselves based on our early experiences. They are the lenses through which we view, judge and evaluate ourselves, others and life. They can be positive or negative. “I am loveable.” “I am worthless.” “People can’t be trusted.” “The world is a safe place for me.” “I deserve to be happy.” “I am bad.” These are all examples of messages to the self, arising from core issues.
Our ‘self talk’ goes on at a very rapid, non-stop pace under the surface of our awareness. And these messages are being re-iterated endlessly. The sub-conscious mind thinks in black and white terms, hammering home these messages. The results of the negative beliefs are damaging to our self-esteem, our personal growth, and our life success.
Hyper-critical inner voices tell us to be careful, pull away, protect ourselves. The negative core beliefs become strong and form the framework of our approach to life with negative expectations, pessimism, and often a victim mentality. We become convinced that they are keeping us safe from pain, harm, rejection, etc.
They can sabotage our efforts toward success, happiness and well-being. They can close us off from new experiences, hopes, and dreams of good things go come.
In working to eliminate negative, limiting thinking and beliefs, getting to the underlying core issue may take time and patience and an expert eye. As we uncover layers of negative, fearful self-talk and beliefs, we come closer and closer to the underlying core theme. A skillful therapist or healer can lead the client through the defenses and rationalizations they have layered over the painful experience and resulting negative belief, the core of the issue.
Usually deep, painful emotion is experienced when we finally come to the core of the belief that is rooted in abuse, trauma, neglect, or other painful personal experiences. If you’ve been abused by a trusted family friend or family member that might give rise to a belief that “No one can be trusted.” If your parents fought about money, that might result in the belief that “Money is bad.”
The simple version of my Theta WHAT IF…? Quantum Healing process I taught on this call can be applied to move through the layers of limiting, negative beliefs and self-talk, ultimately arriving at the core belief and clearing it. This process represents a combining of Western counseling and therapy, and Eastern energy techniques. We follow the thread of thinking and feeling so that the underlying causes of the negative belief are discovered, the emotional and physical residues of this belief are released, and it is then replaced with a positive belief. (Note: When I work directly with someone using this process, as we proceed in the work, we use muscle testing, a pendulum, or a ‘felt sense’ to make sure we’re on the right track and that beliefs are being cleared.)
This process allows for rapid change by working in the quantum energy field to release the physical and emotional energy blockages resulting from the early negative experiences. It also allows for the establishing of positive, optimistic thoughts and beliefs and associations.
If you find that your sub-conscious is thwarting your progress toward what you consciously want, chances are good that you are dealing with a negative core issue and you will want to work to clear it. Evidence of this is that you are chronically frustrated, and observe a pattern of ‘spinning your wheels’ as you try to achieve your goals in a certain area of your life.
Hopefully this has shed light on what core issues are and how important it is to heal the ones that keep us limited as you Step Into Your True Life!
Love you, Bless you,
Janice Masters, The Shaman Mama
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