As within, so without. As above, so below. Our subconscious mind is in the dark. And so much of healing is about taking the time to shine light in there- see how it's programmed... identify which childhood and generational programs are impairing you and your life and upgrade them. Once something unconscious becomes conscious, you can work with it. You can heal it. You can reprogram it. You can choose differently. And you start to remember that you have a lot more power to create your life than you were taught. The outside is a reflection of the inside. And some things just can’t be nipped, tucked and dressed up. Sometimes you can change the job, change the relationship, move across the country, set another boundary, read another self-help book—and somehow find yourself standing in a strangely familiar situation again. Why am I always the one carrying everything? Why do I keep ending up with people who don’t support me? Why do I freeze when I need to speak up? Why does this particular person make me feel five years old? Why am I having the same argument I swore I would never have again? Sometimes it didn’t even start with you. That argument with your family member? It could have started generations ago. Friday I did a session around an imbalance in the workplace. There were backdoor deals happening and my client was left in the betrayed position. When we followed it down, there it was in the family system. A grandfather. A secret affair. A baby. And a grandmother who had been betrayed. Different stage. Different actors. Same story. And someone eventually has to see it. This is part of what I consider the Matrix. The unconscious programming we inherit, absorb and repeat—and then mistake for just the way life is. Until we remember. Last Thursday during the free Global Healing, we were reminded of another piece of this. Sometimes the machine looks SO big. There are so many systems. So many people participating in them. So many people acting like Mr. Smiths. And some people who have consciously become corrupt themselves.