SHIFT HAPPENS

A State of Mind FEELING UNWORTHY IS JUST

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When we start a personal journey and begin to peel back the layers of what defines our complicated lives, it’s one thing that we fear. Yup, one reason alone sits behind all the worries of suffering, failure, and conflict. What holds us back or pushes us forward is defined by one thought and one thought alone: “Will I be good enough?”

Is Everything you ever desired on the other side of fear? Love? Financial abundance? New job? Joy? Feeling and living here and now? The question remains, how do I get past the fear? Are you in your own way? The great news is the problem is not you, it may be your own mindset that is holding you back. The thought of “I am not deserving" or “I am not worthy” or “I am not good enough” will keep you stuck in the past and unable to get past the guilt and the fear of moving forward. Believe it or not, it is our own negative self-talk that keeps our minds stuck. The mind does not care if it is good or bad for us—it just knows what it knows and it loves repetition and replaying the past even though it is paralyzing us from bringing in positive new experiences.

It is easy to say you can’t keep living in the past, but letting go and accepting that what is done is done can be hard for the mind to accept. Even more when the mind replays and frames a failure only to set you up for repetition.

You may find yourself thinking and pondering about a trauma or a past negative experience every day, heck… you may have nightmares about it too, even if you tell yourself you need to let go and learn the lessons from the past and finally move on. The reality is that it can be hard to let go of the guilt, shame and for the pain brought on by others or pain you may have caused someone else. Your mistakes of the past can be like a ball and chain that you carry and can’t shake off, and day after day you come back to this same situation only to cause more stress and anxiety that feed the thoughts. The negative self-talk has now created a negative mindset or belief that you are not good enough. Regardless of how you dress it up, whether it be fear of failure, it all relates to one core issue. “I’m not good enough” is the ultimate human fear.

You have the power to change a negative mindset into a new positive mindset through the power of light and reaching a higher vibration in energy and connection to authentic self. It is in the light where our thoughts begin to change. Where your focus goes, new positive energy can flow. This will not change the events or memories in your life, but it can begin to change the feelings of fear, flight, fight or freeze that take hold of the mind from moving forward and putting the past where it belongs.

The self-talk of negativity is how the brain tries to protect you by keeping you in your current state of fear. This self-talk can take hold and that is how we can be stuck in our own thoughts. The narrative your head needs to start changing. Moving from "I’m not good enough" to one of "I’m better than I was yesterday."

With the introduction of Lucia Light, the mind can begin to start a new positive pathway to leaving the past behind and you can begin to take charge of your thoughts instead of them controlling you, finally giving yourself permission to focus on what you decide to bring in. The light allows your mind to easily turn off the outside world as you begin to take an inner journey into self. This is the time to create a new journey and break free of fear-based thoughts.

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