You can use this powerful and insightful process with any image, emotion, or perceived limi-tation that comes to mind. As a note, Reframing is also the basis for the R&A Process
You can read the Reframing Process to yourself, closing your eyes at any time to visualize and taking a few breaths to deepen your experience, as needed. To do this process, you first need to learn the Soul Centering Process in Chapter Two and feel comfortable about being in a soulful state, because it is from this centered place that you will clear the limitation.
Before starting, you also need to have a specific limitation in mind to address, the more specific the better. For example, if you want to address fear, start with a specific fear, like the fear of speaking in public, which prevents many people from achieving the things they want.
Attempting to address all of one’s fear in a single process is not generally effective, because it actually includes a number of different fears.
To make the most of this process, find a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down your observations and insights gained during the process. Also, allow am-ple time, as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself, close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience, and visualize the different aspects of the process. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and mes-sages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze.
Start by taking a few deep breaths and allowing any tension you feel in your body to begin to melt away. Fill your lungs completely with pure, clear air with each inhale, and allow more tension to release with each exhale, so you feel more relaxed with each breath, and your body becomes lighter and lighter. Just allow any tension you are releasing to melt down through your body, legs, and feet, into the earth. As you
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continue to breathe, allow the breath to be loving and nurturing, embracing yourself with relaxation. Focus on sending this relaxation to every part of your body, starting at the tip of your head and working your way down to the tips of your toes.
When you feel relaxed, allow the limitation you want to address to come into your awareness. If it is disturbingly uncomfortable, imagine that you are moving away from it as if you are viewing it from a distance or on a movie screen. This should make you feel better. While you continue to focus your awareness on the limitation, allow an image of it to emerge in your mind, such as a time when you experienced it. As the image emerges, make note of each of the following:
• What you see
• What you feel physically
• Where you feel it in your body
• How you feel emotionally
• What you hear
You may want to jot each of these things down before you go further. Focus par-ticularly on how you feel emotionally and on how strong the emotion feels. You can measure the strength of the emotion from one to ten, with one being barely measur-able and ten being the most intense. This will give you a measurement to compare to when you are done with the process. Also notice how this blockage limits your ability to create what you truly desire in your life.
When you have a complete picture in your mind, imagine that you can rise gently above it to a higher place where you can view the situation from an elevated perspec-tive, the perspective of your soul. You may want to imagine going to a mountaintop, onto a billowy cloud, up onto a star, or back to your universal home described earlier.
You will know the right place for you. As you imagine yourself rising, take a few deep breaths to clear your mind. Breathe clear, loving energy into your heart, recalling how it feels to be connected with your soul. Then, when you arrive at your higher destina-tion, allow the soul’s loving energy to radiate out through your body and all around you, so you are completely embraced by this energy. Just breathe and feel the con-nection with your soul.
When you feel connected, place a hand on your heart and focus all of your senses on this experience of being aligned with your soul in this higher place, making note of what you see, how you feel, and what you hear. Jot down what you notice from this perspective. Focus particularly on how you feel emotionally and how you feel about your possibilities. Now bring in the joy and excitement of creating your heartfelt dreams. When the image is clear, ask yourself what color(s) you would associate with this soulful state, and imagine surrounding yourself with this color.
The color(s), sounds, and positive energy you associate with your soul create an energetic hologram that you can overlay onto the limitation you left below you to transform it. Focus again on surrounding yourself with the soulful color, allowing it to permeate every cell of your body and surrounding yourself completely with it. When this feels complete, look down and notice the original image of limitation below you.
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Now imagine that you can send the positive energy and the soulful color down and completely cover the limiting image below you, filling everything in the image with the new energy and color. Focus again on the positive feelings and imagine gently follow-ing the color back down into the original scene. Notice yourself there surrounded by the soulful color and notice how you feel in this situation now compared with how you felt when you connected with this scene earlier, jotting down any changes you per-ceive. Also, return again to the emotion you measured earlier and measure its inten-sity again between one and ten, making note of any difference.
Now, from this soulful place, reflect for a moment on the limitation you perceived initially. Notice what your possibilities are now for manifesting your dreams. It should be quite different. If it feels positive now, imagine that the future is extended out be-fore you, and send the soulful color and energies into your future to enrich your entire life. As you gaze out into this future, remind yourself that you will be able to recall this soulful state and all that you have gained any time you wish in the future.
To complete the process, take a few final breaths, breathing in active energy, feel-ing you are ready to return to your normal state of awareness.
When you are done, you should feel quite different. It is worth spending a few moments of reflection to allow more insights to emerge and integrate the changes that have occurred.
Also remember that any time you are in a situation similar to the one you just transformed, you can intensify the positive experience again by imagining yourself surrounded by the color and energies from this process.
We have been using reframing with our clients and ourselves for years with remarkable results. Here is an example with Jane and a client we will call Judith, who reported having difficulty connecting with high vibrations like joy and lightness. When they started the Re-framing Process, Jane asked Judith what she experienced physically and emotionally as she focused her awareness on this difficulty. Judith immediately said “I’m just average, not a per-son who will ever do something that is truly great.” In her mind’s eye, Judith saw herself as a wallflower in a dull looking room, where she blended into her surroundings, not standing out in any way. Physically, she saw herself slumped over and emotionally she felt a dullness that matched her surroundings. Judith reported the dull feeling to be at around a five out of ten.
As their focus shifted to a higher place where Judith could benefit from an elevated per-spective, she connected with the love in her heart and allowed this energy to radiate out, so she was completely surrounded by it. As she did, she immediately felt giggly as the feelings of dullness were replaced by utter joy. Judith then saw the image of herself brighten up, leaving the dull room for the open air, where she raised her arms high up into the air and heard her-self declaring, “I am bubbling with joy. I am unique and I can create an extraordinary life, not just for me, but for everyone I touch. The world can be a brighter place because I am in it.
This is my reason for being and I want the universe to know that it will be hearing a lot from me. My bright future is happening now and I stake my claim to greatness.”
Judith now reported her feelings of bubbliness and joy to be around nine out of ten. All this happened in about ten minutes and it completely transformed Judith’s perspective on life.
It brings up the point that each of us has a choice. We can settle for feelings of dullness and emptiness or we can choose to step out of the crowd and actively transform our lives.
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