Rule 5: Your Mind Does Not Care If What You Tell It Is True or False

Our inner dialogue is accepted by the subconscious as absolute gospel truth. It has no built-in fact-checker for self-deprecating narratives or anxious forecasts. When we casually repeat stories about our worth, our age, or our capabilities, our biology accepts those thoughts as laws of nature and shapes our posture, energy, and hormonal output to match them.

Somatic Feeling Associated: A collapsing inward of the posture, rounded shoulders, a caved-in chest, and a heavy downward pull behind the eyes that mirrors the defeat of an internalized false narrative.

Real-Life Situation: You catch yourself repeating a quiet,

looping narrative after a setback:

"I always mess things up; I'm stupid, I cant do this, I am not good enough, I am not worthy" 

Your body responds by shrinking, holding tension, and draining your energy.

Somatic Work: Your subconscious treats repeated thoughts as absolute law.

Notice the physical posture your body assumes when you believe that story, usually caved-in shoulders and shallow breath.

Consciously straighten your spine, lift your chin slightly, and offer your mind a truer narrative paired with bodily expansion:

"I am learning, evolving, and exactly where I need to be, I am enought,

I am worthy of what I choose to set my mind to do and achive "

Reflection & Integration for Rule 5:

• Which limiting beliefs have been installed that shape your life and distort your truth?

• What words, encouragement, or praise do I want to give myself instead of an old critique?

• Write down one false narrative to reframe it into a postive!

If you are curious and would like to chat about rewriting the stories your subconscious takes as fact, let's have a discovery call!

Best to you,

Ashley Howitt Specialist in Nervous System Recalibration!

Founder, Somatics-Embodied Clinical Hypnotherapy & IFS, NLP Somatic Counseling

somaticsembodied@gmail.com | (415) 634-7481

The Answer to Freedom Is Inside of You!