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Choose Your Thoughts, Choose Your Life, by Della Temple

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Taming your inner critic and getting to the core of who you truly are, not whom others think you should be, is a process. It's a process of intentionally choosing your thoughts instead of allowing your inner critic to choose for you. Much like peeling away the layers of an onion, this process of discovering who you truly are takes patience, self-nurturing, and fortitude. But it is possible—and once you find your true essence and live by your own internal wisdom, life is truly delicious!

However, you can't change something until you understand what it is you want to change. The first step then is to bring your awareness to your current story of how you see yourself operating in the world. Start to listen to your inner dialog. Write out some of your worst inner critic statements. Keep a journal of your dominating thoughts. Bring your beliefs of how you view yourself up from the basement of your subconscious and into the light of your awareness. Remember the words spoken to you in judgment or the expectation handed down from your parents. Journaling the story may help to bring all the pieces into focus.

The second step is intent. Do you want to get rid of the energetic imprint of these old beliefs? Sometimes you do, and sometimes you don't. Often people are tied to their stories because the victim energy feeds their sense of self. If that's where you are, then that's where you are. No judgment, just awareness.

And if by chance you are ready to be something different, intend it to be so. Awareness then intent; that's the process of becoming a conscious creator. As you choose to create new dominating thoughts, you start moving out the energy that's keeping you stuck.

Grounding to the Earth
One of the easiest ways to remove the old beliefs from our space is through a grounding cord. One end of this hollow energy tube attaches to your body and the other end attaches to the center of the earth. The gravitational pull of the earth sucks the energy attached to your old belief from your space, making room for more of your life force. You can attach this grounding cord every morning during meditation, and it will stay in place all day.

As I've done this, day after day, year after year, I've found that my inner critic's voice has diminished. I won't say it's all gone, but it is less bothersome. Now I can tune into my own thoughts about what's best for me. I've changed my dominating thoughts to those of self-worth, compassion and non-judgment.

Exercise: Releasing Your Old Story

1. Sit in Meditation with your feet flat on the floor, and your eyes closed. Take a couple of deep breaths and visualize a wide, hollow tube of energy connected to your hips. This tube falls below your feet, through the floor, and continues down to the center of the planet. Feel this cord anchoring into the core of the earth. This hollow energy cable serves as a vacuum cleaner sucking the energetic baggage right out of your aura and returning it to Mother Earth, where it will be recycled and returned to its original essence.
2. Imagine energy, the thoughts and feelings of others, the shoulds and expectations of the world, drop right out of your body and fall down the grounding cord. Let it all go. Give your body permission to release all that stress, all that foreign energy. You don't need to store it in your body. Release it all.
3. This grounding cord stays in place the entire day, continually vacuuming up all the gunk in your aura and returning it to the earth. Take a couple of deep breaths, open your eyes, get up and walk around. Imagine your grounding cord still in place. It moves when you do, allowing you complete mobility. Anytime during the day that you begin to feel weighed down by your old beliefs and thoughts of unworthiness, imagine this grounding cord removing those toxic thoughts and feelings from your energy field. Feel the rush as all that foreign energy leaves your aura and moves back to the earth.

As you remove the shoulds and expectations of others from your energy field, you empty out. And, as you know, nature abhors a vacuum. So instead of filling right back in with more of the same nasty inner critic energy, you can consciously "fill up" with energies more in alignment with your new dominating thoughts. As you consciously choose to align yourself with energies that feel good to you, there's less room for your old stories to reside.

Calling Back Our Life Force
One of the best ways of bringing new energies into your body and aura is to use a tool called Golden Sun.

The Golden Sun has two functions; one is to call back our life force so that we can function at our full potential. The other is to offer us a way to replace the foreign energy leaving our body via the grounding cord with energies that are more in alignment with who we truly are. When we fill in with energies such as peace, love, and self-acceptance, we dilute the power of the lower vibrational energies (fear, anger, resentment), offering us one more way to tame our inner critic.

The grounding cord and the golden sun are what I call "foundational tools." I use them every day to help me remove the thoughts and feelings of other people from my body and aura.

Exercise: Filling In With A Golden Sun

1. Sit quietly with your feet on the floor, and your eyes closed. Take a couple of deep breaths. Imagine a gigantic Golden Sun, about three times the size of your body, above your head. See the sun filled with golden light. Now place a giant magnet in this sun, and ask the magnet to call back your scattered energy from past events, and from time spent at your job or with family and friends. Feel all that energy zoom back into the Golden Sun.
2. Imagine that energy being cleansed and restored to the frequency that's just right for your body. This is your life force energy.
3. Next, fill this Golden Sun with relaxation, peace, abundance, self-validation, or whatever quality would most benefit you at this moment. See those qualities permeate the sun, vibrating at a frequency that's just right for your body.
4. Now imagine reaching up and popping the Golden Sun. Let the deflated sun's beneficial qualities flow into your aura and fill in every cell and membrane of your body.
5. Feel yourself refreshed and enveloped in a cocoon of energies that are just right for you today. The world around you can be full of chaos and turmoil, but when you're filled with your own energy, you can be relaxed, free from stress and turmoil.
6. Sit in this wonderfully peaceful space of relaxation and fullness for a moment or two. When you're ready, open your eyes and notice how you feel. Your body may be vibrating a little bit faster, or you may feel a bit more focused or present.

When you are "full of yourself," filled to the brim with your unique life force energy, there's less room in your aura for mind chatter. It's free, it's easy, and it's oh so comforting.

And finally, if the old story tries to reattach, just remember that you are in control. You've turned the page, and you're becoming something more. Tell those old dominating thoughts, "Oh, I remember you. You're that story that's trying to keep me small. I've outgrown you, and I am something different now, so please go away." Send those thoughts down your grounding cord and then fill in with the Golden Sun full of energy in alignment with your new dominating thoughts. Be in control. Be the master of your universe.

Choose your thoughts—choose your life.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015. All rights reserved.

I have had a strange thing happening lately with things disappearing. Last night I stopped at a store to buy a small item and couldn't find my debit card. I searched my purse and the pockets of my jacket, but no card. Then when I got home, I searched through every place I thought it might be (including my purse and jacket pockets again), but no card. This morning I got up and searched again. There it was in my jacket pocket! Any idea what's up? I have had other things disappear, and I thought my ex had keys made to the house and was coming in when I wasn't here and helping himself, but now I'm not so sure. I would appreciate any feedback! Love and blessings to you!

- Deb

Dreamchaser:

Your question made me laugh because this happens so often to me and it always drives me crazy. I know this happens to LOTS of other people as well.

We all have a whole hoard of spiritual beings around us. We have one main guardian angel, one main human spirit guide, and one main animal guide at all times. At other times, we have teaching guides. We also have helper entities.

I liken it to a television show. All we can see when we watch that show is whatever is happening on the sound stage; we don't see all the hustle and bustle backstage to get everything ready. We don't see the camera men and the production staff. Like that show, we have all these entities scurrying around behind the scenes, working for our benefit.

As far as your missing debit card, this is no doubt a "behind the scenes" phenomenon. I know you say it was a small item, but for some reason, you were not meant to use your debit card at that moment. I know it makes no obvious sense, but if you were one of those actors on stage I was referring to, you would not be able to understand the job of a production assistant, nor would you care. You would only be focused on your own best performance.

Like that show, you have to try not to focus on the "production staff," and instead, focus on doing your own best in each moment. I know that's easy to say, but you have to have some faith in the process. Spirit REALLY does know what is best for you, even if it makes no apparent sense at the time.

These entities we are speaking of often like to make themselves known. An easy way for them to show their presence is to mess with electricity. They will turn electrical items (lights, televisions, DVRs, etc.) on or off, or switch stations. They also like to move things. That is another way that they can leave their mark.

It happens to me SO often. I am incredibly organized and everything has a place. When something is NOT in its place, I look around and say, "Please bring it back" to the air. It will "mysteriously" appear again later that day or the next.

As far as your ex goes, I suggest you change the locks on your house. That way you'll know he doesn't have a key. I changed the locks on my doors recently. It REALLY is not that hard. You can do it yourself if you want to.

What is happening is REALLY normal. If you speak to your spiritual production assistants, they will hear you and help you!

*****

Astrea:

If your house is anything like mine, you have some Spirit Energy there that disrupts the normal order of things. This isn't your imagination or your ex coming into the house and helping himself. I checked for ghostly activity in poltergeist form, but nothing comes up. This is probably a case of Iby Infestation.

Ibys are tiny little creatures who get a huge kick out of making disruptions in our lives. Ibys have specific functions within their Units. There are Artist Ibys who leave the tops off the tubes of paints and squeeze them from the middle. There are Kitchen Ibys who hide your good dishes and silverware. There are Music Ibys who put extra dots on the notes or rests in the measures of sheet music. There are various types of Automotive Ibys, who plague mechanics and drivers alike.

Yours are probably some kind of Money Ibys, because they keep you from using your debit card, hide your keys so you can't go to the store, and misplace money that you've been hiding "very carefully away." Money Ibys are some of the most difficult to get rid of, because they are more evolved than your everyday garden variety troublemakers.

I also sense that you're experiencing Homebody Ibys, who are an offshoot of the Underground Race of BogusBogus. These Ibys work in tandem with your Money Ibys to keep you from going out. If you have pets, they are probably whispering to them too, to try to keep you at home. Yours have personalized their little terrorist tactics. You have at least a full Unit of the Ibys in your home. Taking a debit card from a coat pocket would take at LEAST a squadron. It's time to take some Anti-Iby action!

The best way to get rid of Ibys is to bake or buy a birthday cake. Ibys LOVE birthday cake. The more decorated the birthday cake is, the better. It doesn't matter if the cake comes from the grocery store or your kitchen, but it does have to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on it for the Ibys to go for it.

On a Friday night, cut the birthday cake into four pieces and place it outside in the four directions: North, East, South and West. Leave a door and window open just a crack (Ibys are small), and they'll go outside and eat the birthday cake. Once they're in a sugar-induced stupor, the Iby Battalions will disband and move on to their next victim, leaving you and your house alone.

You'll know they're gone because things will stop disappearing right away!