As a child you are open to everything that happens around you. You are, as it were, a sponge that absorbs information from the environment. Especially if you were a highly sensitive child. You haven't learned enough about boundaries or how to set them. Often the boundaries were set for you. This causes you to adopt beliefs and feelings like your own while they belong to other people. They mainly come from your parents or guardians, grandparents, friends or other people who have had a significant influence in your life. When grandparents or parents fail to face their own emotions, children can carry them for their parents. The children are often labeled as difficult and further research will follow. Oftentimes the true reason for the behavior is not found or symptoms are treated. Years of conversations with an expert can follow with little or no result. In addition, all kinds of things are projected on you throughout the day by the outside world that you receive. This is done by your parents (and grandparents), your loved ones, the educational system, the government, religion and the media also contribute to this. They show what is appropriate and what is not. Beliefs about how you should behave as a man or woman settle in your energy fields. Beliefs that are not yours, but that you have come to experience as your own. Feelings of shame, guilt, sadness, anger and fear are part of your daily reality. You feel that it is not right, but you cannot name what it is about. By examining your feelings and beliefs, you can discover that they no longer serve you and in fact were never yours. Now the real letting go of that which is not yours can begin. This way you find out what you really think, what is yours and what is the other's. Only then can you really develop yourself and live from your inner wisdom so that you can be yourself.
Angela van der Stad
Adopted emotions and beliefs
Bijgewerkt op: 12 dec 2022
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