REMOVING BLOCKS
How to Remove Blocks & Limiting Beliefs: The Body-First Way
Every time you move toward something you want, you may notice a resistance somewhere in you. That resistance is likely trying to protect you based on limiting beliefs, and even though it presents as thoughts… it lives in your body.
How to move through these blocks, is some of the most important work you can do. This is what we do in the luteal phase (phase 3) in the Déjà Method.
What Is a Limiting Belief, Really?
Limiting beliefs are old software — programs written by a younger version of you, in response to a world you were still figuring out.
At some point, a thought crystallized: “I'm not good enough. Love isn't safe. I always mess up when it matters.” And because that thought helped protect you once, your system kept it. It’s still running on a subconcious level causing you to subtly sabotage the things you say you want.. because they represent the risk that these blocks are trying to protect you from.
And it doesn’t necessary help to “know” what these blocks are.
The more self-aware you become, the more sophisticated your blocks become too. They stop looking like fears. They start looking like wisdom, caution, discernment, or even random distractions that seem even more important than they should. You think you're not blocked — you're just being realistic. But realistic is sometimes just the story your nervous system tells you to feel safe.
Why Understanding It Isn't Enough
Most approaches to limiting beliefs work at the level of the mind; affirmations, journaling, cognitive reframing, talk therapy. These are genuinely useful. But the mind can fully understand a pattern long before the body releases it.
That gap — between knowing and feeling — is where transformation gets stuck.
The nervous system doesn't speak in concepts. It speaks in sensation, in safety, in felt experience. When the body perceives a lack of safety around something, even something good, it will quietly pull you back toward the familiar.
This is why practices like yoga nidra, somatic work, and EFT tapping can move things that years of intellectual work couldn't reach. They speak the body's language. Neuroscience backs this up — the brain is most receptive to new programming during theta brainwave states (4–8 Hz), the state accessed in deep meditation and yoga nidra. This is when subconscious beliefs become not just reachable, but changeable. Your body holds the belief long after your mind has figured it out, and the body needs a different approach to let it go.
Why we use Yoga Nidra to engage Theta Waves in the Brain for rewriting new beliefs:
Memory Encoding: Theta rhythms (\(4 - 8\) Hz) are highly prominent in the hippocampus. They help temporally organize information so that the brain can successfully consolidate short-term memories into long-term storage.
Here’s what to do from the moment you feel a trigger or a charge that you know is a block preventing you from your big desire.
A Five-Step Process for Unblocking
Step 1 — Uncover what you're actually telling yourself
A student was noticing that every time she started dating someone she would start feeling insecure because she would put them on a pedestal and put herself down. They were someone more advanced in their career, “cooler” or something that she seemed to actually want in herself.
So underneath this block is a story of unworthiness. What you’re telling yourself is “I’m not good enough for this person, this job, this opportunity” - whatever the situation your limiting belief will come forward to stop you from progressing.
Step 2 — Trace it back
For each belief, ask: where did I first learn this? Usually it came from a moment in childhood — something a parent said, a rejection that landed hard, a dynamic you watched and absorbed as truth. You're not assigning blame. You're just seeing that a younger version of you made a rule to stay safe, and that rule has been running your adult life without your permission.
So go back to that version of yourself and give her what she needs - as the wise, older version of yourself now. In the example above maybe that younger self needed some encouragement, confidence, cheerleading. Go give it to her. Re-parent yourself and give statements that you know to be true about yourself.
Step 3 — Stop fighting it, get curious about it
Every belief you carry is, on some level, something a part of you wants. Wanting to feel insecure keeps you from taking risks. Feeling unworthy keeps you from disappointment. Rather than pushing against these parts, go towards them. Get curious, get on your knees and surrender to the scary feeling that this block represents. Often feeling it fully and coming out the other side will allow it to pass. This concept comes from the book “Existential Kink” a recommended read for shadow work.
Step 4 — Challenge it honestly
Ask the belief three questions:
Is this 100% true, always, with zero exceptions?
What would I say to a close friend who believed this about herself?
What would my life look like if I simply didn't believe this anymore?
Most beliefs fall apart here, if they haven’t already. They were never facts — they were conclusions drawn by a younger, more frightened version of you.
Step 5 — Build the new belief with real evidence
All beliefs start as thoughts and thoguhts need repetiton to become deep seated beliefs.
You can't leap from "I always fail" to "I am always successful" and expect your nervous system to buy it. The shift has to be believable. Start small: "I am someone who learns and keeps going. I am resilient." Then gather proof, one small thing at a time. After thirty days, your brain has a new story — and actual data to support it.
I always recommend sticking to honouring the new belief and building new evidence for at least one full menstrual cycle.
Working with Blocks by Cycle Phase
Each phase creates a different inner landscape. When you align this work with where you naturally are in your cycle, it moves the block from all parts of you.
Menstrual — Witness (Days 1–5)
Estrogen and progesterone are at their lowest. The veil between conscious and subconscious is thin. This is not the time to push through blocks — it's the time to witness them. What surfaces now is showing you where your next layer of growth lives. Rest here. Let what needs to be seen, be seen.
Recommended practice: Phase 1 Practice or Deep Listening — somatic journaling
Follicular — Manifest (Days 6–13)
Rising estrogen brings mental clarity and a natural sense of openness. Your nervous system is more receptive, more willing. This is the best window to install new beliefs. Your brain is primed for neuroplasticity. The small wins you stack here build real evidence for the new story you're writing about yourself.
Recommended practice: Phase 2 Practice or Relentless Authenticity — the secret to manifesting
Ovulatory — Magnetize (Days 14–17)
You are most outwardly magnetic right now, and the block that often surfaces here is around receiving — around being truly seen, around letting yourself be loved without shrinking to make it feel safer. EFT tapping during this phase can move energy that has been lodged in the body around worth and visibility.
Recommended practice: Phase 3 Practice or Venusian Activation — radiant body visualisation
Luteal — Integrate (Days 18–28)
As progesterone rises and then falls, the amygdala becomes more sensitive. Triggers feel louder. Old wounds feel closer. Research confirms the luteal phase is associated with heightened emotional reactivity and increased access to the limbic system — the brain's emotional and memory centre. What surfaces is showing you exactly where your deepest reprogramming work lives.
Yoga nidra is particularly powerful here. It moves you into theta brainwave state, where subconscious beliefs can be rewritten not just mentally but in the body, below the level of conscious resistance.
Recommended practice: Phase 4 Practice or Dream Self — shadow work for manifesting
You don't have to heal the wound before you show up. You show up, and the showing up becomes the healing. The commitment itself is what breaks the pattern. One cycle at a time, one practice at a time.
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