Member Journey: Part 3

The exercises you practiced this month were all designed to increase your ability to connect with your soul’s knowing.

The internal environment you’ve worked hard to create to hear your inner voice is now clear, pristine and open to accepting messages from your Higher Self.

You’ve spent the last 3 weeks cultivating a loving inner world, where you can calmly and safely have dialogue with yourself to create a wellspring of inner wisdom you can draw upon at any time.

Imagine a reality where whenever you feel cloudy, confused, pressured to act, or there’s multiple demands on your energy and resources, you can simply retreat within, have a loving internal dialogue with yourself and return with a clear answer.

That’s the reality you now have access to!

How does it feel to have a safe space within where you can now witness your own thoughts?

The good news about this newfound inner space is you don’t have to defend it to anyone other than yourself. It’s a free creative zone, where you can entertain ideas without harsh judgement or criticism coming in from elsewhere.

So we’ve now made it to the final frontier. 

Your goal this week is to keep that internally safe reality accessible and ready to go at any moment.

To do that, you’ll now have to keep the space free of harsh judgment and criticism coming from within.

Negative inner dialogue patterns may be genetic, they may also be learned. 

If they are learned, we now know through psychology research, you can unlearn them. If they are genetic, by choosing to engage in different activities, through epigenetics research, we now know you can turn off genetic expression of certain traits.

Exercise: Guarding Your Inner Dialogue

The goal of this exercise is to practice protecting the space you’ve now created to hear your inner voice. You want to keep this newfound sacred inner space clear, pristine and safe. 

So the final step is maintaining a strict vigilance with the inner thoughts you DO entertain. 

Do not let a single negative thought go past you unchecked. Whether the negative thought is about you, someone else or a situation, as soon as you have it - redirect it to a positive or neutral place.

Redirect means immediately guide the negative thought towards a new, more neutral to positive thought. 

You are going to pretend as though your thoughts are as easily guided as dogs on leashes, and over time, you can guide any dog towards new places internally.

Example negative thought: 

XYZ person is so inconsiderate! 

Redirect that to: They are likely looking out for their best interests, which is exactly what I need to also be doing right now. What does that look like for me?

Example negative thought:

XYZ place is crowded and the patrons are rude!

Redirect that to: That place seems to be popular and the customers there certainly feel free to be in a ‘main character energy’ mood. 

It’s true that I prefer places that are a little more low key whose customers treat you like you’re one of them. Where are those places? How soon can I find a reason to go there?

Example negative thought:

I wish things were going better!

Redirect that to: Things are actually better than they were even 10 years ago. If I compare things today to where they used to be, I can see there’s been an improvement. I enjoy reflecting on the different improvements as they occur.

A Few Final Notes:

Do not waste any time with these thoughts. Even if you have negative thoughts all night (i.e. nightmares), start when you wake up with the redirection.

Don’t allow the thoughts to linger - the longer they linger, the more insidious they become. The more difficult it will be to energetically clear yourself.

If negative thoughts are allowed to proliferate unchecked, they may take up so much space in your inner environment, your inner voice’s true messages will be less easily accessible. And, rather than having your loving, wise inner voice guiding you, the negative thoughts will be doing that.

Which reality sounds better?

To Recap

Let’s wrap up! The takeaway of this week’s practice ~

You’ll…

Practice guiding your inner thoughts to a more neutral or positive place whenever a negative thought arises - whether the thought is about you, a current situation or another person.

The goal is to keep the sacred inner space you’ve created all month clear to continue to receive messages from your inner voice moving forward into 2025!