Ever feel like you’re stuck in some area of your life (finances, relationships, health), but you’re not sure exactly what’s holding you back?
What is it that’s preventing you from stepping into your unbound potential and being your fullest, freest, most magnificent self? (Because you really are magnificent, you know?)
The truth is, sometimes we can go round and round in circles trying to figure it out. Maybe you journal on it, talk to a friend or read a self-help book, but the same ‘stuff’ keeps coming up time and time again.
I get it.
I’ve been there my friend and it’s pretty darn frustrating.
Usually as you’re trying to ‘figure it out’, you’re up in your head, using your conscious mind and trying to logically reason why on earth you’re feeling so stuck.
But the truth is, if you’re feeling blocked in some way, it’s likely that something is going on subconsciously – and your subconscious mind is not the most rational place. Believe me, as a hypnotherapist, I’ve become used to the very particular ‘logic’ of the subconscious mind over the years.
The good new is there’s a simple way to bypass your conscious mind and tap into what’s really going on. It’s a technique I use myself and share with my unbound clients to help uncover and shift blocks of all kinds.
It involves tapping into the inner knowing of your body and it’s a super-quick route to more ease and flow. Let me share it with you now:
1. Start to focus on the area of your life where you’re feeling stuck at the moment. Be as specific as you can, thinking about a particular situation, issue or relationship.
2. Notice how you feel in your body as you focus on that particular issue. What sensations are you experiencing and where?
3. Tune into whichever part of your body you feel drawn to most. As you focus on the physical sensation you’re feeling there, ask yourself, ‘If this was an emotion, what it be?’ Notice what comes to mind.
4. Stay tuned into that particular part of your body and ask yourself, ‘If this sensation was a colour, what would it be?’ Notice what comes to mind.
5. Now you have a part of your body, a sensation, an emotion and a colour, ask yourself when you first experienced this. For example, ‘When did I first experience this tight, blue, angry feeling in my throat?’
6. Notice what comes to mind. It’s very likely that you’ll think of a particular memory and if one doesn’t come, just guess when you first experienced this feeling. Hint: You can’t get this wrong, whatever comes up will be coming for a reason. Choose to be open to whatever your subconscious presents to you.
7. Now you have a specific memory, this is GOLD. Rather than trying to figure it out for yourself, your subconscious has given you the precise piece of the puzzle you need right now. All you need to do is trust that this is the case.
Focus on the memory that’s come to mind. Ask yourself, ‘What did I learn here? What did this experience make me believe about myself and the world?’
Take some time to journal on what comes up and begin to reframe it.
For example, when I was doing some personal work recently, a memory came up from when I was a little girl that had made me believe that when I express myself, I make people angry.
As I thought back to the situation that had come to mind, I could see that it wasn’t me that had made people angry, there was much more going on at the time that I simply hadn’t been aware of as a child.
The belief that expressing myself made people angry had been preventing me from being fully myself, in my personal life and business. But as I worked with this memory, that old belief began to shift.
I would never have got to that memory, if I hadn’t tuned into it via the steps I suggested above. It’s not a memory that had ever come to mind before.
And that’s why this technique is SO powerful.
When I work with clients, I generally combine this approach with hypnotherapy or EFT tapping, but you can easily use it for yourself to access information that would otherwise be out of your awareness.
Hint: Awareness is always the first step to change.
Try it out for yourself and see what new insights come to you.
Your next steps:
Want to learn how you can use EFT tapping in combination with this approach to create your own breakthroughs? Click here to access my free tapping routine to help you move through Upper Limit Problems.
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