What Breakthrough Sessions Reveal
A client came to me with a fear of failure.
Through a Breakthrough Session, he discovered he wasn’t just afraid of failing. He was so afraid of trying that he was creating injuries and illnesses to justify not even attempting.
It all traced back to something seemingly small from ages ago, and his body was keeping him “safe” the only way it knew how.
What emerged through our session was fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time.
This wasn’t conscious self-sabotage; he had no idea he was creating these physical barriers to protect himself from the possibility of trying and failing.
His body had developed a sophisticated protection system. If you can’t try, you can’t fail, and if you can’t fail, you stay safe from the pain that trying and failing once caused.
The Body Remembers
Following the thread of fear through the session, he discovered his self-protection traced back to childhood experiences that seemed small, but had created a lasting impact.
His body remembered what his conscious mind had long forgotten: that trying and failing led to judgment and trouble, so it developed a strategy to prevent it from ever happening again.
The injuries and illnesses weren’t random. They were perfectly timed protection mechanisms, appearing whenever an opportunity to try and potentially fail arose.
What amazed him was how sophisticated this protection system was.
The timing was always perfect. The physical symptoms were always legitimate. The reasons for not moving forward were always completely believable. This system took him through his life, showing up while he was in school and in his business ventures, until now.
He never had to face the choice between trying and not trying because his body made the choice for him by making trying impossible.
His body thought it was the perfect solution; avoid the risk of failure without having to admit you’re avoiding it.
When Protection Becomes Limitation
What once protected him, he realized, was now limiting him.
The same system that kept him safe was also keeping him safe from growth, opportunity, and the very things he consciously wanted to create in his life.
His body was still operating from information gathered years ago and was still processing experiences through that information. He could now look at it and appreciate that his system had been working tirelessly to protect him, even though that protection was now preventing him from living fully.
Once he connected with his younger self that created this story and processed the feeling of fear, he was able to move forward and create something preferred rather than continually create unpreferred.
This is what happens in Breakthrough Sessions. Follow the fear to the root, to the base, and process it. You end a session feeling lighter and seeing the world in a new way, brighter and with possibilities.
Your younger selves are always trying to keep you safe.
What once protected you now limits you, and when you can see that, you can appreciate it for what it was and allow it to be used in a new way.
That’s when what you desire becomes possible.