{"id":823,"date":"2018-06-16T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=823"},"modified":"2018-06-16T01:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:06:23","slug":"i-am-noticing-resistance-to-doing-the-clearing-practices-and-am-not-sure-why","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/knowledge-base\/i-am-noticing-resistance-to-doing-the-clearing-practices-and-am-not-sure-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I am noticing resistance to doing the clearing practices and am not sure why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ve noticed resistance to the clearing practices in the last few days but wasn&#8217;t sure how to name it. This morning I realized that I have some fear around releasing what I&#8217;ve historically perceived as security mechanisms: patterns of behavior, beliefs, and emotions that &#8220;keep me safe&#8221; since early childhood. I can consciously understand that this isn&#8217;t true, and these beliefs and behaviors are no longer useful. I want to clear these patterns and live more freely in flow, but the resistance has proven to be slippery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly common to feel resistance to letting go of old patterns as they have often served as a form of protection as children or adults when we didn&#8217;t have the cognition or conscious awareness to understand what was happening. There is often a secondary gain, a benefit, to keeping the pattern. For instance, maybe it gets you out of something you don&#8217;t want to do, maybe it gets you attention and love. Often these patterns are subconsciously reinforced or an identity is created around them. Every behavior, even &#8216;negative&#8217; ones have a positive intent, even though they end up limiting us in a larger sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some questions you can ask yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>+ Are there any \u2018benefits\u2019 you\u2019re getting from keeping this pattern?<br \/>\n+ Who would you be without this story\/pattern\/emotion?<br \/>\n+ What do you fear would happen if you let it go?<br \/>\n+ With your new understandings from this higher perspective, if there was a better way, a way that\u2019s healthier and more loving, to get that same benefit, would you be willing to let it go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed resistance to the clearing practices in the last few days but wasn&#8217;t sure how to name it. This morning I realized that I have some fear around releasing what I&#8217;ve historically perceived as security mechanisms: patterns of behavior, beliefs, and emotions that &#8220;keep me safe&#8221; since early childhood. I can consciously understand that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[20,21],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-823","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-limiting-beliefs","ht_kb_category-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/823\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow-mastery.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}