For instance, say someone is late for work. We ask why?
Because I got a speeding ticket…. Why?
Because I got up late….. Why?
Because my alarm clock didn’t go off…. Why?
Because the battery had died. –
When we are able to get to the root cause we may uncover some painful emotions that we’ve been burying or not wanting to feel.
“The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure that you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Once we are able to acknowledge and work through the root cause of the pain, transformation begins to take place.
When I was 30 I went
to see an intuitive, one of my first spiritual teachers.
“I want to go back to when you were about 12 or 13, what was going on at that time?” She asked.
At first I didn’t know, she persisted...
“It was around puberty, you took a decision at that time.”
“That was the time that my parents’ divorce went through, we sold the house I grew up in and had to move,” I said.
“You decided, if I don’t let
anyone get close to me, they can’t hurt me.” She replied.
“That was when I became so shy,” I said, and I burst into tears. I had been so painfully shy since then. I had built up a big wall around myself. I had always wondered why I was so shy!
By touching on that incident and getting to the cause, I was able to start healing and finally came out of my shell, breaking down that wall one brick at a time. Now most people are surprised if I
tell them that I used to be shy.
Most of us have some pain that we are using addictions to cover up. Drugs, alcohol, overwork, food, love, sex.
Get to your root cause and begin working through and letting go of the dark feelings to be able to achieve all of your goals, be it weight loss or letting go of other addictions.
“Enlightenment is making the dark, conscious.”
Jung.
This is just one of the exercises I do to help my clients achieve their health and weight loss dreams.
