Beliefs: Limiting vs Supportive

Now that you understand emotions as energy in motion, vibrating at different frequencies, it’s worth exploring what actually triggers them: your beliefs.

Beliefs are essentially the stories you tell yourself. Some are shaped by external influences like family, community, or society, while others are formed through your own experiences. These beliefs play a major role in how you interpret and respond to events in your life and the world around you.

They generally fall into two categories: supportive and limiting. Supportive beliefs help you receive what you want and tend to feel positive in your body. For example, thinking “I am worthy” often brings a sense of ease or confidence. Limiting beliefs, on the other hand, block that flow and feel uncomfortable or discouraging, like believing “I’m not worthy.”

It’s also common to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time. For instance, you might believe that money is beneficial because it enables freedom and generosity, while also believing that money leads to corruption. When you focus on the positive aspects and imagine having more money, it can feel uplifting and motivating. But when you dwell on the negative belief, it creates discomfort and resistance.

Having both types of beliefs isn’t the issue. The challenge arises when limiting beliefs become dominant, overpowering the supportive ones and influencing your thoughts, feelings, and actions more strongly.

You don’t attract what you say you want, you attract what you consistently embody. If the dominant energy you’re putting out aligns with the belief that money is corrupting, then you’ll unconsciously block the level of financial abundance you’re aiming for, regardless of your intentions. Money, like love, carries a high, expansive energy. Fear-based beliefs about money operate at a lower level, creating a mismatch. To receive more, your internal state needs to align with that higher frequency.

What can you do? Start by noticing when you feel emotionally activated. Pay attention to what you’re thinking, what you’re watching and listening to, and who you’re around in those moments. Instead of resisting the feeling, let it move through you, like water flowing over a rock, then gently guide your thoughts toward a more supportive belief, one that feels lighter and more empowering.

How can you tell when a limiting belief is in charge? Usually, it shows up as discomfort. You might feel anxious, irritated, heavy, or even physical tension somewhere in your body. Your body is a reliable signal, it reflects your emotional state, which is shaped by your beliefs. When you learn to recognize these cues, it becomes much easier to interrupt the pattern and shift toward a more supportive perspective.

With consistent practice, you can retrain your mind. Over time, those empowering beliefs become more natural, and your default response begins to align with the version of you that’s open to receiving more abundance.

Laying the foundation - let's talk about energy!

 Before I begin the conversation of trust, it's critical to lay the foundation by talking about energy.  Bear with me as I geek out for a bit :)  It's important to understand the science of energy because it directly relates to the emotions felt in the body.  Emotion means energy in motion: E-motion!

Okay, here's the physics of energy.  Are you ready????  Let's go!!!!!

Everything in the Universe is made up of atoms and those atoms have electrons moving around them at a very high rate of speed. This causes the atom to vibrate at a specific frequency.  I want you to think about what happens when you put a pot of water on the stove and turn the heat on.  Water is made of molecules of two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom.  When the water is cold, the molecules are moving slowly, vibrating at a low frequency and the water is dense.  Slowly, the water closest to the heat gets warmer and the molecules begin moving at a faster rate vibrating at a higher frequency.  As a result, the water becomes less dense as the molecules bump into each other causing them to spread out and rise to the top.  Eventually, all the water molecules in the pot are moving so fast,  bumping into each other, and spreading out that there is a phase change where liquid water becomes a gas - steam. 

Emotions are very much like the water molecules in this example. Those that vibrate at a low frequency are more dense and feel heavy in the body.  Some examples are fear, anger, shame, and guilt.  Emotions that vibrate at a high frequency are less dense and feel light in the body.  Examples of these are peace, joy, and love.  Think about this for a minute:  when you feel sad or fearful, it's a heavy feeling in the body and your shoulders might sag but when you feel love and joy, you feel light, airy and energetic and hold your head up high.  

Because emotions have a frequency to their vibration they trigger different responses in the body.  By the way, you will NEVER hear me say there are good and bad emotions.  All of them are important and serve a purpose.  I will always refer to them as low or high frequency.  Emotions that vibrate at a low frequency trigger the release of hormones, such as cortisol, that damage the cells in the body which can lead to illness.  Emotions that vibrate at a high frequency trigger the release of hormones, such as serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins, that bathe the cells of the body helping to regulate the nervous system and heal the body. 

Below is the Map of Consciousness, developed by David R. Hawkins, which shows the energetic frequency of different emotions.  Keep in mind, emotions are not quantifiable so the number is a representation of how one emotion differs from another. The lower the number, the lower the frequency of the vibration and the heavier it feels in the body thereby the more damage it does to the body when one sits for prolonged periods in the emotion.  Notice shame and grief are at the bottom.  Anyone who has felt these emotions knows the heaviness of them.  Notice, now, the high frequency emotions such as peace, joy, and love.  These emotions feel good in the body and are light.

It is natural to move throughout the map in any given day, sometimes in any given moment.  You might be peaceful one second and something happens that shifts you into fear.  The key to regulating your nervous system is being aware of the shift downward, allowing yourself to feel it, and then moving through it by using tools I will teach you in future blog entries.  

It's important to note that emotions are alarm systems. When we feel those that don't feel good, it's an alarm that something we are thinking, hearing, or seeing isn't aligned with our higher self which is always in a high frequency. They aren't something to run from, they're something to address and move through in order to get back  to the emotions that support us. 

Welcome to "Where Doubt Ends, Trust Begins"

 Welcome to my blog!  

Have you ever felt weighed down by doubt? Wondered if a decision will truly support you or steer you off course? Do you find it hard to ask for help or to trust others to do things “right”? If so, this blog is for you.

I’m writing to share my journey from self-doubt to self-trust, exploring the many ways mistrust shows up in everyday life. Self-trust is the foundation for all other trust. We often think the issue lies in trusting others, but in reality, it’s difficult to fully trust anyone if we don’t first trust ourselves.

Like most people, my life has included both highs and lows, times of growth and times of deep struggle. As the youngest of six children, I learned early on to protect myself by building a tough outer shell. Trust didn’t come easily to me, and that pattern followed me into adulthood, showing up in many different ways.

In each blog post, I’ll focus on a specific way mistrust appears in daily behavior and offer practical ways to shift toward patterns that support rather than undermine you.

Learning to trust yourself isn’t a single breakthrough, it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, time, and consistency. It’s built through small, intentional steps that create momentum. Over time, those steps grow into the confidence to move toward what you truly want, trusting that when something feels aligned, it’s the right choice.

By sharing how mistrust has shown up in my own life, I hope to help you recognize the patterns that keep you stuck in doubt, and offer grounded, practical ways to begin trusting yourself again, especially in moments of uncertainty.