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Personal Exercises for Empowerment
I am an advocate of using a variety of exercises, techniques, and strategies for self empowerment and personal growth. Here are several exercises to support you in neutralizing the effects of negative thinking, limited beliefs, and obsolete vows.
Personal Exercise: Writing with Both Hands
If the rescinding vows affirmation touches you emotionally or mentally when you read it or think about it, you may want to write it. For even greater impact, you can write it repeatedly, first with your dominant hand and then your non-dominant hand.
When you write a powerful statement/affirmation with the dominant hand, you send messages to and use the brain in the usual ways. The non-dominant hand, however, activates a part of your brain that is generally underutilized. The pattern 9-3-9 is particularly potent, that is, nine times with your dominant hand, three times with your non-dominant hand, and nine more times with your dominant hand. Or simply alternate, left and right for each affirmation, writing it as many times as you want.
You may find that this is an emotional experience for you -- one that evokes sadness or anger or resentment. Relax and remember: this process is designed to stimulate release, and it is working! I have often seen clients break patterns established in childhood through this simple D-ND-D writing pattern.
For additional information on this approach, please refer to the article, "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment."
Personal Exercise: Experience the Opposite
Sometimes you may feel you are trapped in habits. You may not realize you are trapped until you have an experience outside the trap. The four items that follow are intended to stimulate you into exploring an opposite behavior pattern. If none of these seems relevant to you, consider how else you feel stuck or disempowered.
- Do you feel that you cannot speak about something? It is time to speak!
- Do you believe that you are unworthy? Now, feel your self worth!
- Have you experienced betrayal? This is the perfect time to move on!
- Do you feel you do not have enough? Know that you have all you need, right now!
You do not need to stay in a dysfunctional pattern, unless you choose to do so.
Personal Exercise: The Enlightened Fingertip
The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to experiment with the idea of separation and oneness, struggle and peace. Pick up a piece of paper or book or CD Rom case or any solid, flat object. With that object in one hand, place your other hand in front of you about 10-12 inches from your face with the palm facing you and your fingers spread apart. Now, place the object against the palm of your hand so that only the tips of your fingers and thumb are exposed. See the five fleshy things, each somewhat similar yet unique and unconnected. Slowly, begin to move the object downward or your hand upward, so that you gradually witness that these five pieces of flesh become closer as the obstruction lessens. Then remove the object to reveal that the five digits that first appeared as separate are not only connected, they are all one.
Imagine the interactions of the fingertips to each other when the object veils the Truth of their oneness -- probably they fight, compare, and wish or bargain for a different position. When the appearance of separation is dissolved, how truly absurd it is that one fingertip might injure or envy another fingertip. After a fingertip accepts itself as a fingertip, it explores its journey to the source and remembers (re-members) its oneness.
Personal Exercise: Vows Review
Without over-analyzing your life, I suggest that you review some of the vows you may have made that now seem outdated. For example, you may have told someone "I'll get back at you for that!" Such a statement works in several ways: You can, indeed, "get back at" someone, and you may also open yourself to invite others to "get back at" you. You may find that you often feel revengeful, or that others act revengeful toward you, or you may have back problems! Select one statement of this nature that is relevant for you and explore various aspects of it, without getting obsessed by trying to figure it all out.
With this suggestion is the caution that you not become overly involved in analyzing the specific vows that have created this or that struggle or limitation. A little awakening on this subject goes a long way. Notice, and rescind the vows of limitation and struggle.
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