Awaken The Species
The process is about uncovering hidden beliefs. Now this is not Awaken the Species Review about doing huge excavating in your life and tearing apart old memories and dissecting conversations, it's just about taking the time to become aware of what you believe about certain things. Whether you know it or not you have been influenced by your family, religion, culture, the media and society-at-large. This is the stuff that plays in the background and contributes to you sabotaging certain aspects of our life.
For example if we were taught that money is the root of all evil then acquiring money can encourage feelings of guilt or it can even prevent us from ever having any money in the first place so that we can continue to be good people. Many of us have underlying beliefs that play out in love, in our careers, in our family dynamics, in our health and in our Sense of Self. And we can choose to alter those beliefs at any time.
I've been reading a book called the Brain That Changes Itself by Dr. Norman Doidge, MD. It speaks to a new science called NeuroPlacticity and it's all about how we can change how our brain functions by setting up new expectations for it. But the conclusions of the book speak to our need to UNlearn behavior before we can apply NEW learning. UNlearning is a process that one needs to allow time for. You simply can't make a new connection when the old connection is still in place.
I've been encouraged to explore more areas of my life where ineffective beliefs are still playing out and holding me back. I can actually set myself up to succeed by understanding that I've got some programming running in the background and being aware of it is the first step in letting it go. Replacing that belief with what I'd prefer to believe is the next step and practicing the new thought is step three. Step three can take some time or it can just be a click and everything falls into place. However it unfolds, its worth the effort.
