Hi there,
This is Dana,
And today I'm going to guide you through a process,
A technique,
That will help you to release the old.
Release some old emotion that's been trapped,
That's been held,
That is being carried by your unconscious.
Your unconscious mind,
Its number one job is to keep you safe.
Does it keep you alive by running your systems,
Moving your blood,
Digesting your food,
Helping your breath go in and out,
But it holds on to anything that it has come in contact with that relates to you.
Now it could be that you've had events in your life that triggered emotion,
And maybe you didn't know what that emotion was,
You couldn't put a label on it,
Couldn't put a name to it,
But your body took it in and captured it and held it,
Because it thought,
Your unconscious thought,
My number one job is safety,
So I'm going to hold on to everything,
Because that will keep them safe.
Our view,
Or our lens of what happened and how we captured that emotion could have been a little skewed.
Maybe we only had a little bit of information,
Didn't have the whole picture.
Whatever it is,
We distorted what we took in,
And we captured that emotion,
And we held it.
And after we build up many,
Many,
Many of those,
Then it's almost as if we are dragging,
As we walk through life,
Boxes of emotions that become heavier and heavier.
We don't even know what's in those boxes.
We just are dragging them along with us.
And if we can begin to release some of this trapped stuff that we've had for our lifetime,
And let it go,
Then as we move into this next phase,
Then we will feel lighter and brighter and more hopeful,
And we'll be able to step through events that in the past would have caused a certain reaction,
A physical or emotional reaction.
So this process,
This technique I'm going to guide you through,
It may sound very simple,
And it may be that,
You know,
You've done this before in different ways,
But just give it a try,
And I'm going to ask you to grab a piece of paper and a pen,
And then at some point we'll set a little timer for five minutes,
And I'll have you go through this process.
So go ahead and press pause,
And gather your tools,
And then come back and start the recording again.
So if you will write on the top of your piece of paper this statement,
I forgive myself for judging myself for,
And I'll repeat that,
I forgive myself for judging myself for,
And in a moment I'm going to have you write out that sentence and fill in the blank.
Just write it out.
Maybe you're drawing pictures,
Drawing symbols,
Writing just words that come up,
It doesn't have to make sense,
Nobody's going to read it,
And in fact you're not going to go back and read it.
This process is simply for you to get something out,
And this is a method of automatic writing,
Where you are just tapping in to the deeper parts of yourself and asking what needs to be released.
These emotions that are trapped,
They're a response of some event,
Something happened,
And you felt something,
And that was stored in your body.
Again the unconscious's role is to keep you safe,
And it thinks that you need everything to stay alive.
But as you've gone through your life,
You've learned lessons.
Everything that has happened,
Every moment,
Every event,
Every interaction,
Every conversation,
Everything you learn a lesson and you take it with you.
And we just have to help the unconscious,
The subconscious,
That's interchangeable that word,
Understand that you have had an event,
Had an emotion,
Captured it,
But you learned a lesson along the way,
And the lesson is what you take with you.
You don't need all this other stuff.
You don't need to be lugging this cord,
This rope,
With boxes and boxes of emotions.
You just drop that rope,
And this is one way that you can do that.
You can begin to unravel,
Untie,
And drop off these boxes full of stuff that you don't need.
And what it will do is begin to help you feel lighter and brighter and clear and unstuck and unblocked.
And so as you step into the future,
You begin to feel like things are possible.
Everything else is possible.
And it may be that you don't make the connection consciously,
And that's okay.
That's not what we need to do.
So grab your piece of paper,
Set a timer for five minutes,
And go through this process.
If you don't get anything that comes to the surface,
It's okay.
First time I did this,
It was very hard.
I was really surprised.
So I wrote out my sentence,
And I sat there.
And I doodled.
I scribbled.
I wrote out my sentence again,
And I doodled.
I wrote out my sentence,
And I thought,
Okay,
I'm going to start small.
I forgive myself for judging myself for snapping at my husband this morning.
I forgive myself for judging myself for making a face at the person that pulled out in front of me at the traffic stop.
I forgive myself for judging myself for,
And then things started to loosen.
Some of the bigger things that have happened in my life,
Those began to show up.
I didn't judge myself for them.
I just released them.
So as memories come up,
Just say,
Huh,
That's interesting.
Don't try to figure it out.
Don't try to decide what you needed to know about this or what happened or whose fault it was.
Just say,
Huh,
That's interesting.
And then just move on through your day.
So if you'll do this process for like five minutes a day,
And if you get really into it and you want to go longer,
That's great.
But once you write out for five minutes all your,
I forgive myself for judging myself for,
Then make a short little list of the lessons.
Don't revisit all the details.
Just what are the lessons I've learned and make a short little list.
And then you don't need this paper anymore.
You can rip it up.
You can shred it.
You can make some confetti out of it.
You can burn it.
And then that process is letting it go.
So give it a try and then let me know how did this go for you.
