Lesson 4: Impediments to Allowing

When I began teaching people to ‘allow,’ I found that about half of my students would understand immediately what I was talking about. As had happened for me, it was as if their bodies just knew what to do. But other people were stumped.

Trying to help them, I discovered one major issue. Shades of grade school trauma, perhaps, but many people who tried to ‘allow’ couldn’t get past an internal voice telling them that they were doing it wrong. Sometimes people think they're not ‘spiritual’ or special enough. In those cases, I advise people to process their Inner Child alongside whatever else they're processing. We'll look more at that in the next lesson. 

Other people were simply too ‘smart’ to sit behind themselves. These tend to be people who do really well in school and were highly rewarded for it. They'er just very comfortable with their left brain methodologies and try to keep using them to figure out what I mean by this allowing thing.  

I used to be just like that, but then I started practicing intuition and sitting behind myself—and doing my inner child processing. Now I’m much more comfortable using my right brain faculties. Of course, we're all using both sides of our brain all the time, switching. back and forth, but trying to learn something that can't be learned with the left brain faculties can be really triggering for some people. For those people, I also prescribe the Inner Child meditation. Because it is just so profoundly helpful in healing from the programming that name-calls what’s essentially animism as primitive or woo woo or witchy and denigrates it as non-scientific. 

Another subset of people who have trouble ‘sitting behind themselves,’ actually don’t have trouble at all, though they think they do. These are people whom I think of as being ‘highly energetic.’ They are so seamlessly using their felt sense and shifting their bodies energetically that they don’t even realize it. Trying to teach them to hold Resonant Attention is like trying to train a jaguar to be stealthy; it is just not necessary. I merely have to help them realize that paying attention, allowing, and processing is what they do naturally and that if they just engage this process consciously it’ll go even better. So for them, I also prescribe the Inner Child meditation. It just helps them get comfortable with the notion that they are already gifted in this arena.

 Coming up in the next lesson: The Inner Child Meditation itself. Join me.