Most of my readers probably don't know this about me, but I have not always been a reader.

Honestly, I used to say I hated books and would never read one. I was fully committed to that position.

And yet here I am, three books deep into a goal of reading twenty this year, writing an entire email about one of them. 🤫 Life is funny like that.

The book is Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza, and I want to break it down for you in plain language because the ideas inside it are too important to stay locked behind a 300-page read.

So let's get into it.

Here is the core idea: your personality creates your personal reality.

The way you think shapes the way you feel, which shapes the way you act, which shapes the life you are currently living.

Not your intentions, not your goals, not what you wish were true about yourself, your patterns, beliefs and stories.

And most of those are running completely underneath your awareness, which means you wake up every day, think the same thoughts, feel the same emotions, react the same ways, and then genuinely wonder why nothing ever changes no matter how hard you try.

That is not a motivation problem.

That is what happens when your body has memorized an identity and keeps returning to it because familiar feels safe, even when familiar is painful.

I read that and just sat there, because that was my entire life for years. I kept trying harder and wondering why harder wasn't working.

The answer was never that I needed more effort... it was that I was unconsciously rehearsing the same version of myself every single day and expecting my life to look different while nothing on the inside was actually shifting.

This is exactly why CMS exists.

You cannot create a new life while operating from the same identity you have always had.

If somewhere underneath everything you still see yourself as the anxious one, the one who always quits, the one who can't stay consistent... your nervous system will find its way back to that no matter what you layer on top of it.

Not because you are broken. Because your body has memorized who you are, and it will fight to stay there because that version of you feels like home.

The shift starts with awareness. You start noticing what you are thinking on repeat, the emotions running quietly in the background every day, how you show up when things get hard.

And then you start interrupting it... not perfectly, not all at once, just in small moments.

You catch the thought, you question it, you choose something slightly different.

That is how identity actually changes. Not in one dramatic breakthrough, but in hundreds of small aware decisions that slowly start feeling like you.

If you feel stuck right now, sit with this one question:

What identity am I unconsciously rehearsing every single day?

That answer will tell you more about why your life looks the way it does than anything else. And the moment you can see it clearly, you are no longer fully trapped inside it.

Awareness is always the first move.

It was mine.

It can be yours too.

PROUD OF YOU 💙

Walking with you,

Leasha

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