Releasing Old Beliefs

The whole point of everything that I am teaching - absolutely everything that I’m saying here — is to undo beliefs.  Beliefs are not important.  Notice where you’ve been thinking that they are important. Notice where you’ve been taught to believe that they’re important. Notice where your beliefs are dear to you. Notice where they cause you to resist and hold back and fight.  You’ve been taught that they mean something— that they’re the key to your identity, the truth of who you are even. If you let them go, what is left? It’s a scary thought. What do you think will happen when you let go of these “identifiers”? When you start to lose what you imagine makes you who you are, what will happen to you?

Sometimes we think, alright, I’ll let go of this belief, and then I’ll trade it for this other one!  Hilarious! Let go of one belief to take on another belief so that the people around you will be able to “know who you are”. And know what you stand for. Except, why do you have to stand for something? Actually examine this. And examine why you have to have an identity. What will happen to you if you let this go?

If I say something that resonates with you, and makes you want to let go of your old belief, be really careful of what you attach to. In other words, if your ideal end point is total freedom - don’t take on anything that I say. Don’t hold on to it as a belief, don’t internalize it, don’t believe in it. Hear what I am saying. Feel what I am saying. Think about what I am saying! Let it flow into you. Let it change the coding of your DNA. Let it reshuffle your innards! Let it unravel your brain. And then, let it flow right back out of you. These words are not the essence of you. They are not who you are or what you are. They are just words which may help you undo other words you have taken in. But they are also just words. And that goes for every other belief you’ve ever taken on. Even if they came from someone really important to you, someone who you love, or trust, or idolize, or someone everyone else loves, trusts, and idolizes — don’t internalize it. You can hear it, you can remember it, but let go of the belief.

"So how do you do that?” asks your mind.

"How do I let go of my beliefs?”

Well, just enter the body for a moment. And when we bring up that belief, whatever that belief is — say it out loud for a moment - and how do you feel when you say it? However you feel when you say it - including “I feel nothing,” just take a deep breath into that feeling.  Nothing needs to happen, nothing needs to change. You’re just taking a deep breath, and you’re imagining that your breath is flowing into that feeling, and you just let the breath flow right back out of you.  And when you bring up that belief again, are there more feelings that are coming up? Great! Then just keep breathing into it. When you relax your body and breathe into it, remember that you’re not looking for a specific result! You are only breathing, and allowing flow to come through.

-MXS

Madeline Sol is dedicated to evolving emotional intelligence and deeper self-awareness on a bodily and mental level.