Do you ever have the feeling that you aren’t the one driving the vehicle that is you? If you do, chances are you are absolutely correct! Just like your computer has an operating system and runs a library of programs to support your work and play, you have an operating system, as well- your Higher Self – and a series of programs that play out in your daily life.

What are these programs and where did they come from? Most of them are stored programming from long, long ago. You aren’t even aware of them. They run in the “background”, hidden from your consciousness, but very impactful on your reality. We play out the stored beliefs of our ancestors. Every lesson they learned while they walked this earth—the good ones and the bad ones, real or imagined, get passed down through the generations. When we choose to incarnate, we make a bunch of other selections. Will I experience life as a man or as a woman? What culture will best support my learning the life lessons I want to master this time around? And the BIGGIE? Which birth parents have the appropriate set of programs to be the catalysts to awaken me to my lessons at the perfect time?

How to stored programs affect us? Here are a few examples:

-      My grandmother was the product of a broken home at age 11. Her mother left her father because she had reason to believe he had committed adultery. My grandmother grew up not trusting me, not even trusting herself. She had a belief that she couldn’t have what she wanted, and she ran a program that caused her to be blindsided when things looked like they were going well. She would be betrayed or things would go wrong. She passed these programs down through my father to me.

-      My mother’s father died when she was seven, leaving a family with four small girls and a widow who had never worked and had no skills. My mom ran a program which I inherited that men can’t be trusted to be there and they will either let me down or leave.

In my life I have played these programs out, totally unaware that they were there. I continued to do this until middle age, when I found tools to remove them.

How can we delete the programs and effectively clear and defrag our “hard drives”? First, we must acknowledge that they exist. Second, the feelings associated with each program have to be felt, really felt. It is helpful to try to imagine how the ancestor might have felt at the time they made the decisions which set the programs up. Third, apologize to the ancestor and forgive him or her, and then imagine they are doing the same for you. Finally, using your intention, erase the program from both yourself and your ancestor, and even erase it from your children and grandchildren, if appropriate. This allows you to end the cycle once and for all.

There are tools to assist you in locating the ancestors and their programs. InnerSpeak is one of them (www.inner-speak.com). VoCal is another (www.theclearvoice.net). There are many more, but these are two that I have used and can attest to.

What do you gain from a Soul Defrag? Freedom! Finally you can create and manifest the life you desire and deserve. Now is the time!