Honoring Your Entire Life History
as Your Most Valuable Resource

The idea of viewing a person’s life history as their most valuable resource is a key component of TLEC’s philosophy. This is an important concept to embrace, yet often difficult to accomplish based on the emotional turmoil and pain many people have experienced.

It is a normal human reaction to avoid painful memories; however, research proves that the distress and pain of one’s life history does not disappear. Instead, it can exponentially worsen due to the body’s inability to overcome, contain and manage this distress over time. Therefore, working to clear your life history of the vast majority of distress allows for clients to embrace their lives more completely.

Viewing your life history as your most valuable resource comes from the perspective that one has learned lessons and experienced events that create strength, resilience, and stamina in powerful and meaningful ways. Taking this viewpoint allows one to see their life as an adventure that can be used an important tool and reference point.

By reviewing your life history through a perspective of curiosity, observation and discovery, your life’s lessons and patterns begin to naturally emerge and a level of life-changing consciousness begins. Until you can create a sense of self-reflection, your life will remain on “auto-pilot” and you will be unable to see how events are connected.

Self-reflection is something I consider an art form. The ability to look deeply at one’s self, while holding a curious-observing stance, allows our neurology to more effectively stay in balance to discover our life lessons. Unfortunately, past negative beliefs, patterns and ideas often prevent the art of self- reflection.

Once someone begins the process of self-discovery by looking for insights and connections, a wave of recognition related to challenges and patterns naturally emerges. This can be painful and overwhelming, and/or enlightening and exciting. At either end of the spectrum, clients are encouraged to be gentle with themselves as they embark on a new journey.

The next step is to begin clearing the distress from your life history, which is necessary to keep from being thrown off balance when certain events are triggered. This clearing of your life history may be one in which you are no longer triggered by certain events or may not even remember what was bothering you. Other clearing can be one of clarification and insight as to what is meaningful in your life, and as you understand the lesson, you reference it for teaching, or understanding where your sense of power originates.

By holding the position that your entire life history is valuable, you are not using mental energy to defend or dissociate painful parts of your life. Instead, a threshold is passed in which a person goes from a distressed state of living to a more balanced thriving position. At this point, events, tasks and projects take effort, but they are clearly directed by choice. Maintaining this position allows a person’s life to soar.