Good one. I'd like to hear a little more about "shifting the [mental] road blocks" and how you managed to do that.
Wobbycarly....Thanks! Thought I'd respond to this one separately. Basically, what my understanding of the mind through the self development work I've done is...In most cases, we learn our beliefs during childhood (I believe 5 years old?). If we believe we are crap and that we stuff up all the time, guess what - our subconscious is programmed to act accordingly and hence attract experiences that feed that belief. However on the contrary, if we program our subconscious brain positively those are the experience we are going to attract. I'm not saying this is easy and some people have A LOT of issues to work through to change their mind/beliefs/patterns.
It's hard to notice these patterns. However I've realised that the lessons that we don't learn and give us pain will keep coming back to us till we notice and learn from them and this (from my experience) shifts the perception so much that these negative experiences never come back again. It's like we are magnets and the energy we carry WILL keep coming back to us - positive or negative. Something that has helped me is journalling. I've not been so consistent lately, but over the past few years I committed myself to journalling at least 3 A4 pages of "stream of consciousness" journalling every night i.e. dumping whatever comes to mind on paper...and it takes around 20 minutes. Then you don't have to read it and definitely not let anybody else read it as you must not judge what you wrote. This exercise has helped me see patterns in life. It's incredible what we hold in the depth of mind and when it's just flowing on paper a lot of things that you jot down tend to bring to attention and sometimes "wow's"/"woah's" of what you do and why you do it.
Further I believe in our society we are taught that "big girls don't cry" or "men shouldn't cry" / or get angry - basically NOT feel. It's ironical, because feelings connect us to our souls. While growing up some of us get out of touch with our own truth of who we are and what we are capable of doing. We avoid anger because we think it's "bad" or we don't cry because we think we are going to come across as weak. While the reality is if something makes you feel upset, it is definitely a pattern from many many years ago that is being brought to your attention to "resolve". You can do two things
a) forget it and supress it as we get told in this world (but be prepared since it's part of our subconscious and our energy it will come back to us)
b) go back to figuring out why is the experience bothering us, allowing us our true feelings about the original experience when we felt this way at the earliest point in our life.
The latter gives you a lot more responsibility and choice as to where you act from in your life. The former only keeps you stuck as the victim.
Another thing that has helped me is to write down my beliefs on paper and then challenging them. And if they no longer serve me then I say I'm ready to let go of this belief for good. Negative beliefs about self are lies about ourselves that we may have learnt from someone or somewhere, but as adults we can choose to let go of them and adopt a belief in it's place that serves us for our higher good. ANOTHER thing that I've done and has helped is write 100 statements about something...i.e. "I feel/believe XYZ when...." So you have an exhaustive list. Once you REALLY get it, it WILL shift for you.
An author that has inspired us is Louise Hay. She is a metaphysical author and she has been a big inspiration for us. You can also watch her movie "You Can Heal Your Life - The movie" on You Tube or better on DVD.
