by Lynne on March 11, 2010
Each of us has adopted a bevy of thoughts with a central, most often limiting, belief that rules; these are our core beliefs. Core beliefs generally originate in childhood. Often they come from a thought lineage that has been passed down to us from previous generations and that consists of both positive and negative beliefs. However, when I use the term, core belief, I am referring to the limiting or negative core beliefs since they are the ones that cause us trouble.
Core Beliefs act like a magnet by attracting into their orbit other complementary thoughts/beliefs, and creating a belief energy field that becomes our identity. This limited identity often establishes what we call victim consciousness. In other words, we adopt core beliefs that define and shape an often painfully limiting victim consciousness, an energetic pattern of consciousness, or identity, that we then become totally addicted to – even though it may be a sorely dysfunctional and painful one.
We ‘wear’ these patterns in our body. They are carried energetically in the body and are visible through our physical habits and posture; these patterns form what we call our victim posture or stance that, though we may attempt to compensate for it, or hide it, it nonetheless transmits a ‘victim vibe’ that attracts to us people and situations that vibrate at the same low frequency. In other words, through our victim posture we invariably attract to us the people and situations that verify for us what ever victim belief we have adopted and are carrying physically.
Our body reflects our beliefs, and because this is so, we can use the body as a doorway to identify our negative, limiting core beliefs, and to clear them. How? By identifying the places in the body where the victim pattern has us out of physical right alignment and using those places of contraction and chronic discomfort to identify the belief that we are carrying there. Through observer consciousness (the antidote for victim consciousness) we investigate the painful beliefs we are carrying in our body and begin to bring ourselves back into a healthier alignment. Years of chronic pain disappears as we begin to release the troubling thought patterns that have been holding our bodies in contorted, painful misalignment and return to an alignment that restores health on all levels, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
Through years of researching these ideas in my experiential work with clients (and on myself) I have verified them and continue to discover better ways of moving us out of our victim patterns and into alignment with our Universal Source which, when we are in alignment with it, heals and restores our health and sanity.
I don’t generally use my blog to advertise my workshops … however, I am so excited about the alignment process that has evolved through recent months I couldn’t resist telling you about it and encouraging you to come experience it.
During the weekend of Saturday & Sunday, May 29 & 30, 2010 I will be offering this life changing work to those who are ready to let go of their victim patterns and find new alignment with life and Source. Core Beliefs In The Body will take place at Forest Haven. Click here for more information.
Blessings, Lynne
by Lynne on March 7, 2010
photo credit: Flóra
I took what could have been a serious tumble yesterday during my yoga practice . It shook me. It happened when I was attempting a new type of inversion. When my arms buckled I crashed to the ground – fortunately I tucked hard and so took the brunt of the impact across the tops of the shoulders instead of the neck; that ‘tuck & roll’ instinct probably saved my life and/or limbs. But that is not what I want to write about. It’s the awakening process that the incident brought me that I want to speak of, for that spooky fall did indeed tumble me headfirst into reverence and gratitude.
The tumble, (more accurately “crash”) happened in slow motion in my mind, I had mental time enough, while it was happening, to watch the fall and mentally comment on its moment by moment unfolding. From the moment my arms collapsed, my thoughts went something like this: “I’ve done it now. So this is how it ends. So be it (the body eases a little). I’ve broken my neck. Is anyone close enough to call? I accept it - tension eases. Are my teeth ok? No damage there. Good. What about head injury? Not sure, maybe (head is throbbing). I accept it – body relaxes a little bit and my head pain begins to diminish. Neck okay? I think so … don’t move it yet tho. Wait ’til it releases. I accept it – body releases even more. I am SOOOOO grateful! (waves of gratitude now) Thank you, Father, for protecting me.” And my body continues to release and relax.
As I continued to assess my body damage, slowly, slowly releasing, uncoiling the body from its recent crisis by lying very still at first and then beginning to make small adjustments, slowly unwinding the body towards a full corpse pose on the floor. I’m guessing it took some fifteen minutes to unwind my crumpled body into shivasana (corpse pose). Time is difficult to guess when we are operating outside its relevance, so I am not sure how long I lay there barely moving on the outside but with mad goings-on inside my mind? I know it must have taken a full half-hour or more before I was ready to uncurl into full standing pose – my head still throbbed on the way up. I continued to slowly seek standing alignment, gently stretching as I went, until I found myself in my qigong ‘ready’ position. I was surprised, I hadn’t decided or planned to do qigong but obviously my body thought it was a good idea so I cooperated. 
Unimpeded by my usually bossy mind, my body led me through a gentle unwinding. My job was simply to let go and let it lead. I did. As the body moved through various qigong forms I focused on Source, bringing healing life energy in to re-establish balance in the body after its upset.
I noticed that the quality of my thoughts had changed dramatically, moving from the terrifying thought, “I’ve done it this time!” – to thoughts of acceptance and surrender, “I trust that I am ok. I trust that I am protected – that this is happening for me, that I am safe.” Such thoughts gently nudged my body into a relaxed state from which to unwind any damage that might otherwise have resulted, if not from injury, then from the tension and contraction of going through the trauma of the fall. I relaxed enough to release and thereby prevent damage to the point that I sit here today writing this with little negative effect whatsoever, beyond some tolerable soreness.
My fall turned out to be a powerful testimonial for the healing power of acceptance and surrender! It verified my conviction that healing requires the ability to fully relax into trusting Source. I am convinced that it is surrender/accepting/leting-go that most often saves us because when we let go and trust reality and the way things are we don’t have to fight against ourselves, and /or Source. Resistance always leads to contraction and creates a barrier that causes us to pull away from life rather than to allow love and healing to happen. Trust in Source alleviates the need to resist. With trust, peace and healing enter naturally the space that surrender creates.
I felt I was a part of a miracle yesterday morning. It brought me an enhanced awareness of how tenuous and fragile life can be and allowed me to experience how powerfully protected I am. I walked out of that room yesterday grateful to be walking and profoundly aware of the Presence of a Loving Source who is ever present and into whose capable, loving hands I can relax knowing that the more I fall into surrender, the safer I will be.
Blessings, Lynne
by Lynne on March 2, 2010
photo credit: Sydigill
When we approach our painful relationships with the intention to use them to discover more about ourselves, we grow exponentially. For example, when instead of fighting against the way someone treats us, we look at how our interaction with them reflects our own thoughts, feelings and behavior towards ourselves, we do better because we put our energy towards the things we can do something about, rather than investing it in blame and futile efforts to change them.
Rather than staying fixated on what they are doing to us we instead become increasingly interested in treating ourselves better. We focus more on how we don’t take care of ourselves and become more committed to taking better care of ourselves, (which may include leaving an abusive relationship). Rather than resisting the way they treat us, we use our interaction with them to discover how to be kinder to ourselves.
The seeming miracle happens when they begin to treat us better too which, in reality, is them reflecting to us our kinder attitude and treatment of ourselves.
When we use the world as an instructional reflection of our own attitudes and beliefs, and shift accordingly, abusive dynamics disappear – either because we move away from them, or because our interaction with them changes for the better.
Think of it as an energetic thing. As long as we abuse ourselves, by the way we think about and treat ourselves, there will have to be someone in our life who mirrors that abuse to us. It is universal law; as within so without. When we shift, the world outside us changes to reflect the shift.
The energy we experience in the world is always, and can only be, a mirror image of our internal relationship to ourselves and the world. Why? Because the world is designed to do just that – the world is set up to mirror our individual and collective state of consciousness.