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My “Holiday Blogging” Gift To You: Entry # 21/Breaking Your Spirit

Think about all the lies that are told at Holiday Time. For example, “Santa Claus” leaving presents and living at the North Pole with his reindeer, elves, and Mrs. Claus.

When you are little, the people who you love and trust the most lie to you over something that is really, really important to you at that age.

You are imprinted that you can’t trust your loved ones to tell you the truth.

If they lie to you about all these multiple holidays, what else do they lie to you about?

You learn at an early age not to trust the people you love; that the people you love lie to you.

Hence, Isolation Programming, Relationships Issues, Abandonment Issues…you have a lot of issues that the holidays/ritual days imprint upon you.

The attempt is to break your spirit before it even gets started.

To take out all the excitement and joy; destroy your hopes, dreams, and fantasies.

Stop your creative process because why bother?

It is all unattainable anyway.

You lose a lot of enthusiasm/energy this way.

This sets you up for a lifeline of deflated joy; of a broken spirit; of a “why try” attitude.

You may even use the expression, ‘I’m broke” if you run out of or are low on currency/energy/money.

The cycle run exceptionally deep.

They are so ingrained that it is challenging to identify them, much less change them.

How do you feel about the myths perpetuated to children at holidays?

How did broken myths affect you as a child? How do they still perpetuate within your life today?

14 Responses to My “Holiday Blogging” Gift To You: Entry # 21/Breaking Your Spirit

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    gina1971 says:

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    You are right on with the loved ones lying to us at an early age. As I work on my anger issues I am starting to realize that they stem from this. Santa Claus not existing was such a letdown for me. Same thing about organized religion. I was lied to about this “loving God” who is watching over me, loves me unconditionally BUT….will throw me into hell, that horrific place where you will burn and suffer forever if you don’t follow and believe the Christian doctrines.
    I had to find out my own truth on that. I was very relieved but extremely angry. I was in my late 20′s when I started soul searching because what I was told didn’t resonate with me. I outgrew this child like dogma.
    Then I was told college was the only way to become successful. Well, another lie! No wonder I’m filled with so much anger!! I’ve been releasing all that bright red energy to my oversoul for the past 3 years and it feels like its never-ending.
    Now I can go back to early childhood and understand where the anger originated. I have an understanding of why I have all this anger.
    This is an eye-opener!

    • K says:

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      I too thought you had to go to college to succeed. Then I thought that you had to work in an office or business 9-5 to be successful. I do feel anger for believing all these years that was the only way I could succeed and since i could never attain that type of job I labeled myself a failure.

      • gina1971 says:

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        Exactly, K! I was told you cannot get all the nice material comforts without a college degree. When I graduated and started working I remember how upset and disappointed I felt when I learned several people in my department didn’t have a college degree but were earning the same as me. That’s when I started really questioning everything thing else I was told in my life. What I was told was really outdated and false information. It closed me off on all the other possibilities I could have explored but didn’t.
        I know it wasn’t done in a malicious way, but ‘for my own good.’ My parents meant well so I try to focus on that to release all this pent up anger.
        I hope you are successful at releasing all your past/present anger on this!

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    michelle says:

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    Thank you sooo much for bringing these things to our attention. Its like a buried toxic deposit that is just under the skin. We know its there but have no name for it. What causes the most anger? Its what Gina said that gave me a clue, deception. Do you think this is now all coming to the fore- to create more and more of this anger in our collective emotional body? I wonder.

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    Anthea says:

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    When I was a kid growing up, I remember my dad would put up the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and then after we finished decorating it, my dad would read the nativity story from the bible. Santa Claus was never mentioned in my house, and all us kids knew the presents came from our parents. When I was little, I once asked my dad, and our priest, how do we know Jesus was born on December 25th since it doesn’t say so in the bible? I don’t think I ever got an answer from them.

    • gina1971 says:

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      That’s a valid question. How does Christianity come up with December 25th for Jesus’ birthday?
      David Icke does a wonderful job explaining how christianity is really a pagan religion worshipping the sun, not the son (of God).
      I need to dig out his book and re-read that part. The book is called “The Biggest Secret.” That book woke me up and changed my life and led me to this website!

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    Anastasia says:

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    I was thinking about this yesterday. I remember when I was going up, my brother and I were taught about Santa claus, easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. I remember trying to make sense of how santa claus, etc. got into the house as we lived with my grandparents at the time, and my grandfather always made sure to lock the doors. I asked if Santa somehow came in through the key hole or could walk through walls or something, because the chimney went to the furnace downstairs and that was locked. Their “lies” (for lack of a better term) did not make sense. Around the time I was 7, my parents started really questioning the catholicism they were brought up with and started doing their own research. Around this time, we learned that Christmas was really a “pagan” holiday, along with easter, and so forth. My mom started referring to it as “gift-giving day.” At that time, she took me out of Saturday catechism and boy was I glad! When we moved out of my grandparents’ house, our family never set up a Christmas tree or put up lights or go to church or anything. We did exchange gifts, though.
    I think being lied to was the start of my trust issues, but my family was the sort that would promise things and not deliver afterward, or forget to do so. They also had trust issues of their own, and passed them down. Now after researching on my own about the government, politics, medicine, the nature of reality, I know that everyone has been lied to on some level. I’ve also learned that some people want to be lied to.
    This year my aunt asked me to help order from a “message from Santa” service for her son. While I was doing it, for the first time I felt bad for doing it because I knew I was participating in a lie. It reminded me of when I was being mischievous with my friends in junior high sending fake “love letters” to other students.
    As I was thinking about all of this yesterday, I was thinking that on the one hand it may contribute to not trusting others, but because I am seeing this though my own trust issues that I hold on to, I also saw it as “protective” as opposed to “isolating.” If I had believed everything I had been taught, I’d still be asleep, so some skepticism is healthy, I think.

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    Alexander says:

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    I remember as a kid I loved christmas, in an almost obsessive way. I thought of it as a magical time that felt special in a way nothing else did. Welp, that was programming! I remember feeling weird at the age in which I started realizing that Santa wasn’t real. It was a weird transition, and it’s weird that it’s a transition so many people go through. It’s as if our mind goes from believing in a ridiculous not real magical force to becoming very logical and left brain oriented. This splits our mind and compartmentalizes it. I think that this society would be very different if families gave gifts to each other in an honest and unconditional manner. Why lie about it? Why should we have to create an artificial entity that brings artificial love and happiness? Perhaps if we as a collective are more willing to show honest and unconditional love, we will release the need for the imaginary santa.

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    frackire says:

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    I like the part about deflated joy. How many years has that been my sad story? Too many, kind of seems abnormal to me know even in just a short time of knowing something different.
    Even though Christmas sort of sucked for me, I kept doing the protection and clearing work and then had some huge breakthroughs with my music and my family members combined.
    Not a Christmas present I was expecting!
    Happy Holidays***

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    K says:

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    Umm… I can’t speak for every abused child but my childhood / adolescence was so messed up I don’t even remember ever finding out Santa wasn’t real. I WISH that was the only heartbreak I was dealing with as a kid. I realize there is a point here but really there are worse things in life. Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth fairy, etc all those fantasies were comforting to know at least those characters ‘cared’ even if your real family didn’t. Off topic yes but just felt like sharing.

    • JypsyJeanyn says:

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      Yes. I agree. In some way those characters were comforting…seemingly “good.” Looking aka blaming characters for created traits within doesn’t seem fair. Or does it? Hmmmm. I guess anything & everything is possible. You have a valid point of view though! I see everyone as a “illusional” character whether flesh or not…what it means individually is up to each of us to decide.

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    Derek says:

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    Growing up as a kid, and having to sing and perform in Christmas programs for both school and church, made me as if I had ‘earned’ my Christmas presents.

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    rebus says:

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    I feel we are almost completely over Christmas as a concept in our family. Santa Claus is pretty much a trade mark of the Coca-Cola company now. I haven’t perpetuated any myths because I haven’t had any children yet. I’m not sure if I will keep that alive for another generation. I think children are more interested in getting the presents they want rather than the method of delivery. I suppose I liked the idea of Father Christmas as a child and didn’t enjoy the realisation that it wasn’t real.

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    2ruth41ce says:

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    So lemme get this straight…Santa’s not real?

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