Jennifer Heward
Blind Spots
What are Blind Spots?
When you learn to drive, you are taught to check your blind spot before switching lanes. This is the spot that you can’t see with your mirrors.
Just like a car, we have blind spots. There are things about ourselves that we can’t see. Many years ago, I had two friends, we will call them Jane and John. Whenever the three of us would hang out, Jane would later complain to me about John. I always found this so interesting because the things that bothered her about John were things she did herself. She just never saw or recognized that in herself. These behaviors were Jane’s blind spots.
Blind spots are hard for us to see on our own. Sometimes we need someone else to bring them to our awareness. That is where I come in. I can identify your blind spots in a non judgmental way, bring them to awareness and then release them.
Why would you want to know your Blind Spots?
Take a quick look at your life. How are your relationships, your health, your career, your spirituality and your finances?
My guess is that there is at least one area that could be working better.
When things aren’t working the way we would like, it is because there is ‘something’ within us that doesn’t want that thing to work.
That ‘something’ is held within our blind spot and is what I have trained to look for.
Awareness
Imagine someone puts on a big, heavy coat in the morning and leaves for the day. They then forget that they have this coat on. The day gets warmer and the person gets hot. The person tells the people around them that they are hot. They start to complain about the weather and say it is such a hot day. They don’t let anyone stand next to them because it makes them hotter. Someone finally tells the person to take off the coat. This person looks at themselves and awareness comes. They see that they are wearing a coat and now they have a choice. They can either take it off and cool off or leave it on and stay hot.
We are like this person. We are walking around wearing coats that we aren’t aware of. If you are ready to know what coats you are wearing and take them off, reach out to me. I can help.
Our Reactions
The way we act, or react to the events in our life, are based on our blind spots. When an event occurs, we have a whole bunch of thighs happen within us simultaneously. We have thoughts about it and/or the people involved in it. We perceive it through filters and judge it in some way- mostly good or bad. Emotions come up and we feel something about the event. These thoughts and feelings determine if we go into fight, flight or freeze mode. Think about yourself. What do you do when something “bad” happens in your life? Do you get angry and yell? Do you withdraw and disconnect? Do you freeze up and not know what to do? Do you complain about it? Do you think about the event for days and wish you had said something different or done something different?
When things happen and we get upset, we are never upset for the reasons we think. Your blindspots hold the real reasons.
Opposition
Imagine two people standing in front of each other ready to fight. As they are about to punch each other, one of them gives up. What happens to the fight? It’s over, there is no more fight. For there to be an issue or “fight” in your life, there has to be something generating, creating or wanting it. We aren’t constantly upset about everything all the time. The ‘fight’ is stored in your blind spot.
How do I identify what’s in your Blind Spot?
I use the tools of muscle testing and intuition in my work.
In simple terms, muscle testing, or applies kinesiology, is the idea that you can use your muscle to gain truth. When you apply pressure with an intent or question in mind, the reaction of that muscle will tell you the answer. If the muscle stay strong, the intent or question is truth, if the muscle goes weak, it is not truth.
For example, if someone asked me if my name is Jennifer and then pushed on my arm, my arm would hold strong and the person would not be able to push my arm down. If they asked if my name is Fred, my arm would go weak.
“With lightning-like speed, the muscles of the body go instantly weak in the absence of truth; they go strong in the presence of truth or that which supports life.” - David Hawkins
There are a lot of different ways of muscle testing. If you would like more information on muscle testing, click the link below.
