The writing on our walls
As babies and infants we are openly curious about the world, and we are instinctively driven to investigate what is around us, needing to learn how to survive well in our environment. It is mainly the experiences we have in the first few 'formative' years of our lives that programme our unconscious minds with certain beliefs about who we are and what the world means to us.
As children we do not have a strong sense of 'who we are', and so it is from the behaviour of the people we have close relationships with - usually parents, siblings, teachers and relatives, that we build our picture of ourselves and the world.
For example, if your parents told you or even inferred in subtle ways that they were disappointed in you for something, you will carry the belief about yourself ' I am a disappointment' in your unconscious mind and literally perceive everything that you do through the filter of that belief.
As we continue through our life we can continue to develop limiting beliefs - for example, when we experience trauma, but even our perception of the trauma is dependent upon those first programmed beliefs! The 'writing on your walls' effectively runs your life.
People instinctively search for happiness -this drives all of human behaviour. As we search we find limiting beliefs create dead ends in our lives. As we try to achieve certain things, we will come across familiar blocks, like dead ends in a maze. Neuroscience estimates that 95% of our behaviours, including the decisions that we make, are governed by the unconscious mind. We have only an awareness of our conscious mind, a mere 5% of what is happening!
It is because EFT enables us to ' clean and re-write the walls' that it is such a powerful and effective tool.
