Thought Artist

The Why and the How

our Beliefs Create our Reality

Everything in the universe is energy, including our feelings, thoughts and beliefs. We have innumerable thoughts a day, most of which we are consciously unaware of. But there are some persistent, prevailing thoughts we have that we may be peripherally aware of if we stop to think about it. They materialize from our consistent, strongly held beliefs, many of which are subconscious; beliefs formed at a young age or as a result of trauma, which are not necessarily rational at first glance but serve to protect us somehow. Most of us are unaware we even have these core beliefs and that they are scripting our lives. But by becoming aware of these beliefs, we can change them. By changing our beliefs, we change our energy, and vibrationally attract people and circumstances that match our changed energy. And so we change our lives.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Sometimes we need to ask ourselves the hard questions, like, am I genuinely happy or am I just comfortable?*

If you're genuinely happy with the way things are in your life, then nothing needs to change. But if you're unhappy with a certain aspect, or frustrated by a recurring pattern, or aware that life isn't living up to your expectations but you're not sure why, then you may want to consider why you're attracting these situations into your life - and then change that.

*If you started to justify this to yourself by thinking "well, no one is genuinely happy, everybody has troubles, etc." - stop and ask yourself, is that really true, or is that just conditioning? How would your life be different if that wasn't true? If it is actually possible to be genuinely happy, regardless of external factors?

But if it's broke - Maybe fix it

Affirmations and consciously trying to control our thoughts is a great place to start, but our beliefs are what really lead to our thoughts and feelings, which create our reality. A strongly held subconscious belief is formed as a result of a compelling experience, and is not easily changed through conscious affirmations if the root cause isn't addressed.

We perceive the world through the lens of our beliefs, and energetically we attract life circumstances that match the energy of our beliefs. To truly create substantial, lasting change, we need to check our beliefs.

The good news is most of these beliefs are subconscious and serve a purpose, so at least we're not consciously trying to sabotage ourselves. The even better news is these beliefs can be changed.

What's the catch?

Pretty much everything we choose to do, or not do, is driven by our expectation of how it will make us feel, and usually that expectation is borne out of experience. We give a lot of weight to our feelings. For example, we might avoid confrontation because maybe we're afraid it will make us feel stupid or humiliated or ashamed. But it is our thoughts that create our feelings. It's a trite example, but if you think happy thoughts, you can actually create happy feelings, at least momentarily. Try it right now.

So why do we prefer to stay comfortably unhappy instead of pursuing true happiness? Because challenging our beliefs means confronting our pasts, our demons, ourselves, and that can be scary because ultimately it can hurt. This is also why we repress trauma or refuse to deal emotionally with difficult situations - it causes us pain. It's truly amazing the lengths we will subconsciously go to to avoid feeling pain or shame. But either we suppress our pain and it eventually comes back to haunt us thirty years from now while leaching colour from the days in between, or we drum up the courage to face it, get through it and get past it, because once we face it, we will get past it. In the meantime, the pain is patiently waiting to be processed, because there's a lesson in the pain - feeling 'bad' is our inner knowing telling us that what we've experienced isn't right and to do something about it. So it will keep waiting in the shadows until we understand what it's trying to tell us.

So why not just get the lesson and live a better life for it now, instead of postponing the inevitable? Yes, it may not feel good in the moment or even for some time while we process repressed emotions and deal with uncomfortable truths, but it will feel incredible to finally be free of it once the storm has passed. And you'll be left musing as to what you were so afraid of, and may even be left wishing you had challenged these beliefs even sooner. But, whatever you decide, take comfort that whether you choose to heal now or later, everything is unfolding in your favour (because your subconscious believes it has your back) and you are exactly where you need to be at this moment in time.

....though where you are is on this page. #justsaying!

So how does it work?

A healing session takes you on a journey, combining guided meditation, talk therapy and energy work to identify and resolve the underlying reasons for the issue at hand and facilitate healing on an emotional, mental and energetic level. During the session, you will come to understand the subconscious reasoning behind the undesirable experience you are having, process the associated trauma and emotions and shift those limiting beliefs that are no longer serving you.

You will be briefed on what to expect before the session and guided throughout, and you need only relax, trust and surrender to it. Each session will take approximately one hour.

Physical proximity is not necessary and the sessions can be done just as effectively online via Zoom as in person. In person sessions are available in Vancouver, BC.

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What can we fix?

Everything! Any issue you are facing in your life, even illnesses, can be resolved through belief work. Typically, the types of issues my clients seek to resolve are listed below.

INNER CHILD

Much of the distress we face in our adult lives is a result of unresolved adverse experiences we've had in childhood. Our minds and bodies register and store experiences that may seem relatively inconsequential (such as having a busy or emotionally unavailable parent), as trauma, and develop coping mechanisms to aid us in our adult lives. Although well-intentioned at the start, these coping mechanisms that once served you well as a child may now be wreaking havoc in your everyday interactions and you may be perplexed as to why your nervous system goes into overdrive when, for example, a message you sent is left on 'read'. Perhaps it's because as a child you couldn't rely on a parent's consistent attention leaving you feeling emotionally abandoned, and this is now triggering your abandonment wound. This is inner child work. It can seem heavy, but it's entirely possible to work through and reframe these childhood perceptions to allow you to be more present now.

abuse, GRIEF, TRAUMA

There's 'big trauma' and 'little trauma'. The categorisation is not to diminish your lived experience but is made available mostly for you to decide how to define the events in your life. It is completely valid for two people to interpret the same event in entirely different ways. Having said that, physical or sexual abuse, growing up in a violent or unstable home, or death of a loved one, especially at a young age, can have long term implications and inform many of our deeply held belief systems and world view altogether, and if it happened early on in life, we may not even be aware of how differently we perceive the world compared to others who have not suffered similar trauma until we begin to heal from it. Healing sessions can help change your beliefs and perception, the meaning you give to and take from the trauma, and bring awareness to the pain, but you will still need to allow yourself time to feel unprocessed emotions to be able to release them.

Love, Work and other patterns

Our lives are filled with patterns once we start to look for them. If you've changed jobs, you may have noticed that the type of people you've encountered at different places are oddly similar - names and faces change, but not much else. Or you see the same types of issues time and again in your personal relationships and possibly even in the relationships around you. Patterns are not inherently bad or wrong - our belief systems just generate patterns that fit our beliefs. For example, perhaps you have a belief system that work is your social life, and so you've always found you made good friends at every job. If there is a pattern you feel repeats in your life that doesn't seem to benefit you, whether you can easily identify it or not, we can determine the root cause of this pattern, the purpose it serves and then, if you're ready to, shift it.

MANIFESTING AND abundance

Abundance blocks typically mean money issues, but it can refer to an abundance of anything - love, friends or even laughs. If you feel your abundance is blocked, it really means you're not manifesting the things you want. A lot of people don't believe that they actually have the power to manifest. The truth is, we are always manifesting, and everything in our lives we have actually manifested, albeit unconsciously. The way to manifest what we truly want is to become conscious of those unconscious drivers and replace them. This usually involves ancestral belief work, as beliefs around money and abundance generally tend to be inherited - beliefs such as 'money doesn't grow on trees', 'easy come, easy go', etc. are common limiting beliefs that many of us seem to have but, if you think about it, it may be a parent's belief, but is it really yours?

Fears

If you are not living your best life, it's probably because there are some fears that are holding you back. You may be consciously aware of them and just unable to overcome them by sheer force of will, or you may be sabotaging yourself without really knowing why. Either way, fears are, in essence, learned limiting beliefs. Afraid to start a business or tell someone how you feel? Unlearn what failure means to you and take that step.

Regret and ReSEntment

Living with regret can be painful, especially if the opportunity to make up for it has passed. Or perhaps someone has wronged you in a way that you feel you just can't forgive. We tend to hold on to regret as a way of punishing ourselves, and resentment as a way of punishing others. It can be surprising how much subconscious grudges and old resentment drive our lives - they usually come up during other healing sessions in which they weren't the focus at all. Although we may consciously feel like we can't forgive those who have trespassed against us, releasing regret and resentment is actually the kindest gift we can give ourselves.