by Cassie Howard | Jul 12, 2017 | Blogging |
I was just doing some journaling around fear, and something in particular that I am really afraid of right now, that I’m worried about, and that I’m trying to process. It’s something so big, so scary, so “omg, what if?”, that it made me feel physically ill. And as I was writing, I realized that I was ALLOWING the fear to take over, I was allowing it to hold me down, and I was not allowing myself to move past it. I was holding on to past beliefs around it, letting them consume me and take over, instead of saying “OH HELL TO THE NO, YOU ARE NOT!” and stopping them dead in their tracks. I was journaling for just 15 minutes or so, when I had this big breakthrough: “Choose something different.” Something so obvious. So simple. So BUT OF COURSE! But something I wasn’t seeing because I was filtering out. All I was seeing was the fear, and so that’s what I focused on. Which meant, of course, that I wasn’t able to properly heal and move forward, and yes, choose something different. It didn’t take long for me to realize this sabotaging thing I was doing to myself. And once I realized it, I was easily and quickly able to choose something different; something that would make me feel EXCITED and not afraid. The process for changing a belief is like so – When something feels off, something IS off. Identify it as quickly as you can. This may require journaling, meditation, someone else asking you deep questions or YOU asking yourself those questions, thinking/quiet time, or...
