Blessings to all and Happy Spring!!!
I have had more volunteers for the re-location of the ground hog next year!!! Thank you all.
It has been my experience when we try to change our "stinking thinking" without addressing the Gatekeeper a/k/a Critical Voice, it feels as though we are on an endless Merry Go Round. So how does one address the Gate Keeper and what is the Gate Keeper you ask? Very briefly, the gate keeper is the silent voice in our heads that decides what is true and what it will allow to be true based on what we were told/imprinted as children. The job of the Gate Keeper is to keep in tact that which it thinks to be true for our survival. Boy howdy, it will do almost anything to protect what it thinks to be true! Like sabotage almost every intention/change we want to do that GK thinks is in direct opposition to what it protects! The Gate Keeper must be addressed almost covertly. It must be taught that what it was taught may not be and most often is not true. Like teaching a toddler what is good for them and what is not. Remember GK was imprinted by the adults around us when we were children. Those adults had their own "negative emotional baggage", so how could they have imprinted us with positiveness? They, those adults, did the best they could based on what they were imprinted with. Thus it is a Merry Go Round... Even if the adults verbally showered us with positive re-enforcement, if they did not do the internal work themselves, those negative imprints still leaked out.
So, every time one thinks they are on a Merry Go Round, maybe they should give GK a giant lollipop to distract it, while you begin the journey of re-shaping within what a Glorious, Lovable, Deserving, Worthy Being you really are!!!
