Emotional Health: How to Stop the Roots of Self Sabotage – Part 2

August 22nd, 2011

Stop Self SabotageThis is a continuation from Causes of Self Sabotage – Part 1.

I’d like to share with you an interview I had with Michael David Lawrience when I got to ask him about the topic of stopping the roots of self-sabotage.

Anne Lyken-Garner : How Do We Stop the Roots of Self-Sabotage?

Michael: We can start to become aware of our unconscious beliefs through reprogramming methods such as the one explained in Carolyn Ball’s book, Claiming Your Self-Esteem.

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Emotional Health: Causes of Self Sabotage – Part 1

August 15th, 2011
Self Sabotage

Self Sabotage

I’d like to share with you an interview I had with Michael David Lawrience when I got to ask him about the topic of recognizing self-sabotage and the causes of self-sabotage.

Anne Lyken-Garner: How Can We Recognize Our Self-Sabotaging Behaviors?

Michael: We all have our ways of perceiving the world from our core beliefs, conscious and unconscious. We create our experiences to confirm the truth of our perceptions. We may have a core belief that we will never succeed at anything we do. So we set up our outcomes to prove that we will never succeed and thereby sabotage any possibility of success and we keep creating obstacles to our success on an unconscious level.

If for example we start a new relationship, expecting it to fail like all our previous ones than it probably will and we get to be right. Rather than continuing to create a false paradigm, we could choose to look at our core beliefs and “truths” to assess their degree of truth.
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Do You Self-Sabotage Your Success?

March 29th, 2011

 

Overcoming SabotageHow do we self-sabotage our success?

Janie Behr, a life coach, talks about ways we create self-sabotage. Self-sabotage involves beliefs buried in our subconscious mind, which counter our conscious intentions. Janie says, Over reacting to stressful situations is a form of self-sabotage that causes emotional stress. Do you know people who create unnecessary conflicts and emotional drama?

Teenage girls thrive on emotional drama. When another girl says something towards another girl that triggers an emotional reaction, feelings explode on both sides like a nuclear reactor. Subconscious unresolved feelings, for instance related to low self-esteem, come to the surface. Usually these feelings never get resolved on a conscious level and another emotional explosion lies hidden down the way like a roadside bomb.
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