What do Soul Retrieval and Napoleon Hill have in common?
My Mom used to accuse me of “proselytizing!” I would get so passionate about a topic it sounded like I was preaching! Recently, I was doing the same thing while talking about the limitations of our brain. I was sharing about how Soul Retrieval and Napoleon Hill work towards the same goal – our mental freedom and success.
What I’m sharing here is what I learned from a master teacher in the success and leadership field named Dack Quigley. Yes he is as entertaining as his name. I don’t know where he gets all of his information, so I don’t have perfect references. However, I believe this information to be true because I have seen it in myself and in my clients.
We create about 50% of our adult belief systems by the age of 5 years old. We further lay about 30% more beliefs by the age of 8. By the ripe old age of 18 we’re 95% programmed with the beliefs we’ll be using to run the rest of our lives. I wonder why we don’t have better success in life?
Here’s how those belief systems get laid in, followed by how Soul Retrieval is connected…
Childhood traumas and experiences cause us to decide how the world works. Then our brains collect evidence that it’s true. From a little evidence, the brain physically creates shortcuts so we can think faster, called Myelin Sheaths. Seems like a good idea, except they protect belief systems we created when we were children that are mostly or totally dysfunctional for our adult life!
This is a made-up story to demonstrate how we may thwart our success:
There’s a little girl named Hilda and she gets a spanking from Daddy. Maybe she doesn’t understand the punishment or maybe Dad’s a little too angry. From this event, little Hilda, who is very much like the little girl or boy inside of us, has created a belief that all men are mean. Now every time Hilda interacts with a man, she has this filter: “Is he mean? I bet he is!” Her brain weighs evidence higher that men are mean, and so it becomes true. Hilda’s brain confidently creates a myelin sheath to save on her thinking time.
Life goes on and Hilda is at dating age. She keeps attracting the guys that treat her pretty crummy. Eventually she gets married to a mean guy, and these things perpetuate down through the generations.
What happens when Hilda’s friends intervene and Hilda attempts to find better guys or leave her marriage? She is paralyzed with fear. Even if her brain allows her to understand their ideas, they seem foreign at best. Let’s say she finally can leave her marriage…often she will unconsciously re-create a very similar situation because her brain is stuck in a rut.
Notice that we humans are blocked in our success in at least three “natural” ways:
- Being programmed for adult life by childhood experiences
- Brain development and functioning
- Our ego self-protectors on steroids.
It actually seems unnatural whenever we start going around these mechanisms. When you add peer pressure for doing things differently there’s a powerful 4th way our limitations are reinforced.
Soul Retrieval and Napoleon Hill
I’ve studied both Soul Retrieval and Napoleon Hill. Each achieves many of the same improvements that Hilda would dream of – a better life with better men in it.
Both use techniques to re-program the subconscious mind to be an ally in our desires instead of an enemy.
A Shaman using Soul Retrieval will go back into lost or forgotten experiences of childhood and heal those places. Then the hurt child can grow up into a whole healthy woman with a much easier chance of making significant improvements in her life. How? Soul Retrieval releases the myelin sheaths and increases brain elasticity. The ego has less to protect, so changes can more easily be made. A good Shaman will provide tools to establish and maintain the improved programming that a client needs.
Napoleon Hill, Joseph Murphy, Florence Scovel Shinn, are among the hundreds of teachers and researchers in the success field who use many other exercises and techniques to start breaking down the mylein sheaths and help you get over the ego fears. (I have been learning these techniques too).
I Want Your Success
Successful people are usually a different breed altogether. Fortunately, we can learn to be successful. What does it take more than anything else? COURAGE and ENCOURAGEMENT. Repetition, faith and discipline also make the re-programming faster.
Wishing you the BEST LUCK navigating through the brain minefield so you can live your joyful purpose!