Many of the traumas and mental injuries we experience leave lasting impressions that run silently in the background of our thoughts and actions. These impressions often express themselves in the form of limiting beliefs. I compare these limiting beliefs to idle computer programs that we forget to close, causing our life systems to run slower and less effectively.
I have come to rely on certain healing methods to reprogram my limiting beliefs as they come to the surface, and other methods as a daily cleansing. Below is an overview of the four methods I use most often.
Rooted Affirmations
Rooted affirmations are based in prayer technology. They are affirmations that address limiting beliefs specific to individual personal experiences. The components of a rooted affirmation include the limiting belief, gratitude, truth, unification with the truth, and thanksgiving.
- Limiting belief- The limiting belief is the residue left by trauma and are usually rooted in fear. Since fear can take on many forms, it is important to get to the root of the specific fear that you would like to resolve. For this demonstration, we will name the limiting belief “I am unworthy of love”
- Gratitude– Although it may seem counter-intuitive, embracing your limiting belief is an essential step in healing and reprogramming. The feelings that we view as negative are actually here to point us to the areas that require healing. Paying gratitude to the limiting belief is to say “I am grateful that you are here to point me to the area of my life that needs healing”.
- Truth– I rely on the things that resonate with the truth within me as trustworthy. These are things that flow with ease and do not require questioning or explanation. They have not been tainted by outside opinions or screened through biased studies. This is the truth that shows up as love, grace, compassion, kindness and security. It is based in intuition and sometimes described as “I knew that would happen!” or “I am not surprised that it happened that way!”. Although circumstances can make us hesitant of embracing this form of truth, it is always available to us through our innate knowing.
- Unification with the Truth– The unification step is where the limiting belief is replaced with the truth that you have downloaded from the Spirit or researched for evidence. It is important to state the inner-knowing truth and personalize it into an affirmative statement (I AM). This reprograms your limiting belief into a statement that empowers the inner-knowing truth to be expressed through your life experience.
- Thanksgiving– Express your thankfulness for whatever arises in you during this process.
Here is an example of a Rooted Affirmation
Limiting Belief: I am unworthy of love
Gratitude: I am grateful that love is always available to me, even when I do not feel worthy of love.
Truth: The Universe expresses its love to me every day. I feel love when I am in nature and I witness love through the actions of others.
Unification with the Truth: Because I feel love when I am in nature and because I witness the acts of love through others, I AM connected to love at all times. Love includes me in its being and in its activities.
Thanksgiving– Thank you for revealing to me the ways that I am connected to love.
Now we are ready to reprogram the limiting belief through the evidence of Truth that we uncovered. Here is what we have affirmed:
I am grateful that love is always available to me. The Universe expresses its love to me every day. I feel love when I am in nature and I witness love through the actions of others. Because I feel love when I am in nature and because I witness the acts of love through others, I AM connected to love at all times. Love includes me in its being and in its activities. Thank you for revealing to me the ways that I am connected to love.
Remember to repeat your Rooted Affirmation as often as needed. As your Spiritual Practice evolves, your affirmations will become stronger, until you realize the absolute truth of who you are!
Embrace and Release
I think of embrace and release as deleting old files. They are outdated and beyond reprogramming. They just need to leave.
Embrace and Release is more intuitive and requires a more free-style writing. Sometimes I embrace and then release, other times I release and then embrace, depending on how things unfold. It is indeed a purge, perhaps detailing some stored thoughts and feelings that have been forgotten. Although these feelings may have some validity, they are harmful to the system and thus need to be removed. I primarily use this method after old and deeply buried emotional injuries as they come to the surface for healing.
Here is a portion of an Embrace and Release writing from my personal journal. I was facing the bitterness that I felt surrounding the life I no longer had after my divorce:
Release: The old idea of who I though I wanted to be
Embrace: Who I am right now
Release: “I guess I first have to embrace the fact that there were parts of my old life that I enjoyed. The financial security, the beautiful houses, the beautiful SUV, the supposed “status”, even though all of it was paper-thin and fleeting. It was all a house of cards. All I really want is the home, the building that I loved because it felt like it belonged to me- and of course the money. So maybe I am trying to get something back that was never really there. The houses were all rentals. We made tons of money yet our accounts were often in the negative. We were just feeding that “superior” status image. So what is it that I’m really envious of? What am I trying to get back? Maybe it’s the idea. But even the idea is dated. It doesn’t fit who I am today. I release the old idea of who I thought I wanted to be.
Embrace: I embrace who I am right now. I am a healer and I consciously seek to heal my past injuries and traumas every day. I am a mother and a friend. I am a creator, full of purpose and beauty. I am compassionate and I share my compassion and love with others. I actively seek to master my life and to contribute positively to society.
This Release and Embrace session allowed me to see that the things I coveted were not even real; they were props in a superficial life. It then allowed me to honor who I am today and to see my growth in real time. This writing helped me tremendously in overcoming one of my frequent life triggers.
Word Purge
Word purge takes the pressure out of forming complete sentences to express thoughts and feelings. The words are like a trail of breadcrumbs that can lead you to deeper feelings.
When I first began using this method, I would only write “positive” words like love, kindness, compassion, etc. I later realized that any word that wants to be expressed should be given the opportunity to do so. I have even written words that seemed to have nothing to do with me, only to have them come up in conversation a few days later with a friend or client.
Word purge involves writing the first word that comes into your head, and then the next and the next until your journal page is full. (I separate each word with a dot or a heart). Once your page is full, look at your words and see how they make you feel.
For example, one of my journaling pages has words such as vanity, deportation, landfills, chaos, suffering, overtaxed and hopeless.
These words helped me to know that I was concerned about the direction of our society as a whole. From this insight, I was able to form questions to the Universe such as “How can I make things better?” and “How can I make my time more effective and helpful to others?”
I also color-code my words. I use highlighters or markers that do not bleed through the pages, and I box my words in different colors. This started some years ago because I wanted to add the dimension of color to the pages of my journal. This aesthetic practice evolved into a writing method that helps me build unique prayers and affirmations.
I use a 5-color word coding system. I alternate between 5 colors until each word is bordered with a color. It is visually pleasing, which helps me to linger with the words longer and feel deeper into the messages each word represents (separately and together). Use your imagination to allow the words and colors to mingle together to form new meanings, some of which are designed only for your understanding.
Healing Affirmations
Healing Affirmations are designed to focus on specific areas of life that need healing. This can include changing negative thought patterns, mending relationships or finding the roots of personal traumas.
My techniques for writing healing affirmations come from a variety of creative sources. This method of writing is highly intuitive.
Although it is difficult to explain the entire creative process, I can share these components of my healing affirmation writings:
Acknowledgment of the Spirit- Because I cannot create anything outside of Spirit, I must pay reverence before starting my affirmation. I address Spirit under many names, such as Divine Mother, Divine Father, Divine Collective, Divine Energy, Great Connecting Energy, Divine Spirit of Truth, Universal Law, The Universe, Ancestors, God, Goddess, etc. This is acknowledgment is either written clearly or implied throughout the writing.
Gratitude to the Divine Spirit– Gratitude is always expressed somewhere within the writing, usually in the opening. It too can be written clearly or implied.
Self-Affirming Language– It is important to use self-affirming/ life-affirming language in your healing affirmations. This lets the intelligence within you know that you are available for fuller expressions of health, life and restoration. Words and phrases such as “I am ” or “I appreciate” are highly affirmative, giving a firmly positive charge to the remainder of your sentence structure.
Rarely (if ever) do I use words such as “not” or “no” or “don’t” in this space. These words can give off a negative charge, which can slow down, block, or even cancel your original intentions. For example, I would replace the statement “I don’t know what to do” with “I am connected to the Infinite knowledge that inspires me to move with Divine right action”
Below is an example of a Healing Affirmation from my personal journal:
I woke up today immersed in the fluidity of your wisdom, Divine Energy. I am grateful for a restful night of focused insight. Our togetherness flows in a lake of elegant reciprocity, and the meaning of my life is forever clear.
My feet touch the grass that lines my path, and the intelligence of the Earth rises throughout my body. I breathe in the knowledge of who I really am and reconcile my unfounded limitations with the majesty of this truth. I rest my cares in the awe of the Beauty that surrounds me in this moment.
My senses are infused with refreshed alertness, allowing me to operate in the fullness of my Intuitive Power. I manage my day with cultivated ease.
I appreciate the timeless flow of Love available to me in forms seen and unseen. My talents spring with vitality as I merge with the Spirit of Creativity. In this sacred space, I embrace the closeness of my being to the Glory of my Higher self.
I release this affirmation as a yellow flower into the river of human consciousness, and it inspires comfort and healing throughout the Universe. This flower multiplies with each life that it touches, until every soul, every kingdom, every being is covered in virtuous Love. We are awakened to Beauty unseen. And so it is.
Just as we take time to care for other people and causes, we must also take time to learn about ourselves. Self-Journaling is a beautifully intimate way of knowing ourselves and initiating a plan for self-healing from past traumas. It also inspires our creative expressions, adding new depth to our existence.
Reference: How To Pray Effectively From The Science of Mind By Ernest Holmes
Breathe.Gratitude.Love. 
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