This Damn Newsletter as a Spiritual Path
If you are reading this, I DID IT! I SENT THE FIRST NEWSLETTER! Only about 10 months in the making, it took me as long to birth this newsletter as it did to birth my son!
Actually, that’s a good analogy for what I am thinking right now. The body, free from Mind, can create an entire human in 10 “short” months. On the other hand, my Mind, full of monkeys, kicks and screams, procrastinates, lolligags, and does anything and everything else instead of writing and designing this damn newsletter! WHY OH WHY do we do that to ourselves??
Let me see… FEAR
Fear of being vulnerable, fear of being seen, fear of being ridiculed, fear of JUDGMENT!
Oh GOD! I’m just an empathic introvert that would rather be in quarantine for 6 months than write about myself to people who might read it!! OH LORD NO!!
Lets add the fear of seeming self centered
As a hypnotherapist, I tell my clients to listen to their inner critic, that demanding voice that we all have living between our ears, listen to the messages, ask if it's true and do your self hypnosis practice to reprogram your limiting beliefs.
And so I did…
Newsletter as a Spiritual Path
Ok, so lets do this!
The good news is anything can be the object of your spiritual path. I tend to choose things that I have set as a goal or something that is fraught with juicy emotional obstacles.
Note to self: Next time try something fun like, Ice Cream as a Spiritual Path or Long Lunches with Friends as a Spiritual Path…. Naps with Cats as a Spiritual Path…
Alas, the newsletter. Fraught and I mean FRAUGHT with obstacles, blocks and baggage so as a good hypnotherapist I got into it. Through my self hypnosis technique I was able to bring up that this particular fear based programming was linked to my mothers similar fear that I picked up in the womb. It solidified itself in my body, specifically my stomach in the shape and weight of a large energetic bowling ball, when I was in fourth grade, being asked to read out loud. Reading was never easy for me, and reading out loud in front of people was like, well, this is what came out when I asked my younger self what she would like to say about it….
I HATE THIS, I WANT TO LEAVE!! MY ANXIETY IS THROUGH THE ROOF, COUNTING THE PARAGRAPHS SO I CAN BE PREPARED! ITS SO STRESSFUL, IM NOT EVEN LISTENING TO THE OTHER KIDS READ THE LESSON! THIS IS BULLSHIT, LIKE SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL TORCHER CHAMBER FOR FOURTH GRADERS!
Oh look! It's trapped emotions holding me back, let’s pull that shit out and commence with the mind reprogramming!
Fast forward
This, for me, is a path, a journey to self discovery, the real work. If this story is resonating, maybe you are working on a goal, or shall I say, marinating on a goal, getting ready to be ready to work on said goal. I invite you to look at it as the object of your spiritual path, become curious, what are my limiting beliefs, what does this feeling remind me of? Doing the deep dive with hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help you bring up the bowling balls in your stomach so you can identify, forgive and release your limiting subconscious beliefs, and free yourself of that triggering energetic baggage that is holding you back from your goal!
Who are you without your limiting beliefs?