To Have or Not To Have? That is the question.

My partner and I were having a discussion, of nothing in particular really until he said something to the effect of me changing people's minds.  I responded that I can't change people's minds.  In which he replied, "You change people's hearts."  And I said, "No.  I don't do that either."  Then he said, "I thought you do energy healing?"

Ay, there's the rub.  I think there are misconceptions about energy work, massage therapy and other healing modalities.  If I help a client release limiting beliefs, non-beneficial energies, emotions and past events but if on some level they don't believe they deserve to be healthy or they believe that the past dictates who they are now or anything of the like, those energies that were just let go of will probably come back.  Not all of them but some of them.  If you can't have or own the new changes or the new awareness that is occurring then you might revert back to an old pattern.

Everyone has a choice.  This is kind of similar to my Stay or Run? post.  Do you choose to stay in the old paradigm or move to the new one?  Sometimes it takes those 'aha!' moments to show us what is for our highest good.  Those moments don't even have to be big.  Aha's are really realizations, right?  Shining the light on something that was probably right in front of your face but couldn't see.  Those moments can also take the form of deciding for yourself that you want something different.  And not just wanting it but having the determination that you're going to have it no matter what.

If we go back into an old pattern that doesn't mean we're doing something wrong, or this is how it's always going to be, it may just be the process.  It could be a very deep, core belief that in order for it to be dismantled it needs to be done so a little at a time.  If you were to rip away something that was so ingrained and attached to your identity and you did so in one big, fast movement, can you imagine what would happen?  You would probably go guano crazy. (If you don't know the definition of guano, google it).  So be gentle with yourself the next time you're going through a transition period (aka growth period).