Unassign Yourself, And Be Free

It’s like all problems. We delete them one day, wake up the next, and there they are again.

The system has restored them once again.

In order to let go permanently, unassigning beliefs from our lives must happen first.

I had to call customer service anyway, so when I got a pleasant service person, I asked a question that had been bugging me for many moons.

I noticed that there were folders in my web hosting account that I no longer needed. In fact, I didn’t even own some of those website names anymore.

Periodically, I would delete those folders, you know—letting go! However, the next day—dang it—there they were again.

His explanation was simple and so stunningly symbolic that I haven’t stopped thinking about it (and it worked, by the way.)

He told me I could delete all I wanted, but the system automatically restored the folder every night unless—and this is the good part—I unassigned it from the account first.

It’s like all problems. We delete them one day, wake up the next, and there they are again. The system has restored them once again. In order to let go permanently, unassigning beliefs from our lives must happen first.

It’s just like weeds in the garden. We can pull them up daily, but they will restore themselves again if we have not eliminated the entire root. The weed has to be completely unassigned from the ground.

Remember the story of taming an elephant? While still a baby, they attach a rope to its leg and then to a stake in the ground, limiting its movements. That limitation becomes so real to it that, by the time it is older, it no longer needs the rope to stay within the boundaries set around the stake.

In order to be free, the elephant has to first unassign itself from the circumstances, training, and beliefs of its childhood.

As we move through life and discover those ropes limiting our freedom, this is a key for all of us.

We have to unassign ourselves from the root of each problem. Just as I had to see those folders in order to finally, and forever, delete them, we have to see the problem in order to unassign it from ourselves.

Happily, the root of every problem always eventually shows itself. Of course, it is easiest to do this work when we first notice it instead of putting it off, but no matter how long it has tied us to the stake, we can remove it from our lives.

However, it is up to us to unassign ourselves from it.

Just as we can look out on the lawn and see the weeds, we can look out into our lives and see the symbols of our beliefs and training. Those weeds, called problems, may show up in many forms, but it is always, always, always a claim of lack.

It is always a claim that we lack health, love, or abundance in the past, now, and into the future.

It is always a claim that we have a human lineage, a human history, a human heredity, a human childhood, and a human future.

These claims and our belief in them are the rope that ties us to a stake of limitation. However, they have no power at all if we unassign ourselves from them.

In the Shift System, we call this Face and Replace. Using this system, we open our eyes to see the root of the problem. Instead of fearing it or agreeing with it, we replace it with Truth.

We don’t hide from it, run from it, or cover it over with sweet nothings or even positive thinking.

We stand and see it, not afraid.

We are not afraid because we are not those memories.

We are not those beliefs.

We are not the human story.

We are much more. We really can’t comprehend what that more is most of the time. However, we can replace the belief of lack and human knowing that we are spiritual beings.

We can know that lack is only the suggestion that health, love, or abundance are not present.

We can unassign ourselves from what we see and state the Truth.

This is Face and Replace.

This is unassigning ourselves from the root of each problem so that we remove it from our experience, never to be restored or lived again.