My mother had two favorite nursery rhymes that she repeated frequently to me when I was a child. One was “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good she was very, very, good and when she was bad she was horrid.” Her other favorite was “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”

While those are perfectly acceptable nursery rhymes, they were like punishment to a very scared little girl. Since I had curly hair, I was convinced the good/horrid words were about me personally. Thus, I worked so hard not to be horrid that I never got to relax in my goodness. The second nursery rhyme stamped a message on my unconscious mind to be ever watchful, or my very essence could be stolen.

Of course, my life was not tainted forever by the false messages I had taken in, because I eventually learned that I was not the victim of my unconscious programming. However, I still had to consciously erase those unconscious messages in order to free the real me.

To erase those untruthful messages that were programmed in my unconscious mind, I had to intentionally imprint the truth. I repeatedly reminded myself that goodness comes from my heart’s desire to be real, not from a fear of being bad. This reprogramming has given me the wonderful gift of choice. And a choice to act from love rather than fear is delightfully freeing.

Erasing the untrue message that my soul can be taken from me if I let down my guard has also been delightfully freeing. The truth imprint used for this reconstruction, has been about choice. My free will allows me the right to say who and what I allow into my space. This then allows me to relax in the knowing that I am safe, not only in sleep time but in waking time as well.

Your fears may not look like mine. But you are not at the mercy of those fears. You can’t talk your way out of fear. But you can re-imprint from untruth to truth.