27/07/2026
As I stepped outside for my morning walk I heard a voice inside say " You are only as free as you allow yourself to be."
This, I pondered as I walked.
It's true.
We give so much of our power (attention, energy, focus) to our thoughts, feelings and beliefs.
When painful and uncomfortable thoughts and feelings arise they often come with a story attached.
Our subconscious mind gathers information from past experiences and prompts us to behave accordingly.
Our Ego orientates our experience and helps us make sense of what we experience.
Unfortunately this information is from the past and usually not relevant to the present.
The job of our subconscious and our nervous system is to keep us surviving.
The way it does that is to pattern match from other times in the past(often from childhood) that we have experienced similar or the same circumstances.
When the same thoughts and feelings are generated from our life experiences over and over again it prompts us to behave a certain way.
This creates a strong belief that life is a certain way for me and this is who I am.
BUT our thoughts and feelings are not the truth they are an energetic response to an experience.
Emotion - Energy -in-motion.
We make up a story that fits with our thoughts and feelings around who we are in alignment with our experiences.
This is a belief that has built up over time and when we believe something about ourselves it becomes our truth.
It becomes an obstacle in our energy flow that prevents us from living and thriving. We are stuck in survival mode.
For eg. If when you were a child between the ages of 0-5 you experienced your needs not being met in some way, that experience forms a template for future experiences and your subconscious mind pattern matches.
This continues throughout your life. Automatic responses generated by your subconscious mind.
It responds to your beliefs and your beliefs have been built from your thoughts, feelings,actions/behaviours.
Do you keep having the same thoughts, feelings and life experiences?
Do you feel like you are thriving or surviving?
We are so much more than our thoughts and feelings.
They are real but not the truth.
They are sometimes so uncomfortable and painful to experience but they still don't give us a true indication of who we are.
✨ Remember our thoughts and feelings together create emotion.
✨ Thoughts, feelings and emotions are energy.
✨ E-Motion. Energy -in -motion.
✨ We can rewire the looping survival patterns within ourselves.
✨ Detach from the story we have created to make sense of our experiences. That does not mean we undermine our painful experiences but we acknowledge this is a past version of ourselves and we live in the present.
✨ It does not serve us in any way to bring our past experiences into our present.
✨ Our power is in the present.
✨ We can feel the energy in our body.
allow it to arise and move through you. It is energy it needs to move. Fear, pain and discomfort needs to be released not held in the body.
✨What we feel and think is not who we are so don't make it mean anything about you.
✨ Our body, nervous system, mind it's all doing exactly what it was designed to do which is keep us safe - Survival.
✨ There is more to us than these mechanisms and programmes of how to survive.
✨ We also have the ability to thrive and live a fulfilling, abundant and peaceful life.
Can we identify the survival patterns, programmes or templates that are running our lives and keeping us looping and limited?
Which brings me back to those words that came to me as I went on my walk. " You are only as free as you allow yourself to be."
Once we are aware of our survival patterns we become freer. Once we rewire them we are free 🦋🩷✨
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