Clearing the negative energy

So you’ve invested a great deal time in learning all kinds of techniques to better your mindset. You’ve focused on a positive result. You’ve diligently repeated affirmations. You’ve read and thought about the many case histories of others who have somehow managed to shift their mindset and make wonderful changes in their lives. But you are still no further along in your own life. What gives?

It is a common experience to move a step forward and then move two steps back. Then three forward and one back. Why does this happen? It is what many have called counter intentions, or simply negative programming we haven’t dealt with properly.

You see, when you make the decision to better your life, you have made a conscious decision. You may feel better for a while, until something “bad” happens, and then all of your effort seems to go out the window. Then you pick up again where you left off, at some future date.

This “falling back” is only your subconscious programming at work. If you are not satisfied with your present circumstances and are trying to move beyond them, you need to go further than changing your conscious mindset. What happens when you don’t is that the moment you take your mind off your goal, the subconscious programming kicks in again as it was designed to do.

How do you change this subconscious programming? There is another technique called clearing. As the name suggests, it is a method to clear that programming that you consider to be undesirable. Call it house cleaning of the mind.

Everybody has programming that they would like to change. This is nothing unique to any individual. It is important to realize this and to simply take the steps necessary to neutralize it.

There are a number of ways to accomplish this, and I cannot go into them all in the limited space I have here. I will give you the basics that tend to be the gist of most of the techniques I’ve learned and used.


Awareness


To become aware of the fact that you do have negative programming and how it is affecting your results is vital. You can’t do anything about something you are not aware of. Often times, just being aware of the effect of certain programming will immediately lesson its effect on you.


Acceptance


The next step is to accept that you have somehow managed to acquire this programming. It is the belief of some that you need to trace it back to the point in your life that you did acquire it. The theory is that by revisiting this experience in light of what you know today, as a mature adult, you can then let it go.

I agree that this can be helpful and may work best for some people, but I don’t think it is absolutely necessary. It can be very difficult to do as much of our programming was acquired from the most mundane experiences in life while we were very young and probably could not pinpoint a specific moment without expensive and questionable therapy.

I also feel that spending too much time dwelling on the past, looking for negative influences may only serve to reinforce that negative energy. I guess I would describe my feeling this way:


“If you’re going to go digging up buried past memories to dwell upon, why not dig up and dwell upon the good ones you have forgotten all about?”


I believe that if you can simply accept the fact that you have this negative programming and that it has affected your results in a not-so-positive way up to this point, that should be well enough. I would add that you must accept the fact that as you begin to release that programming, keep in mind that it may not go easily. It may take time. Be patient with yourself. You are growing.


Reason


When you become aware of a limiting belief or negative programming, and you can use your faculty of reason to see how it may be affecting you in a detrimental way, simply make the decision at this time that you will let it go. Understand that this is a process. It will require time before your decision takes hold on an unconscious level.

Knowing this, you will not be discouraged when you find yourself being influenced by it from this point on. You will simply recognize what is happening, and reinstate your decision to change. Congratulate yourself on catching it and enjoy the more positive energy of liberation from a past obstacle to your success.


Release


The final step is to release the need to maintain this programming in your psych. Once you become aware, accept that it exists, and give it permission to go away. Again I remind you, this is a process. Some programming is easier than others to overcome.

Be good to yourself in that you are now seeking a better way. Every time you catch yourself slipping, reward yourself for catching what you were not even aware of earlier. This is where gratitude comes in. The more grateful you can feel, rather than frustrated, the quicker and smoother will be the change you desire.

To your best life,

Jeffrey Brandt



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