“Training in NLP provided me with a set of tools and techniques that gave me access to that ‘central storage system’, also known as the mind. Now I understood the mental processes underlying my behaviors and had strategies to replace those programs with more empowering ones.

I was still troubled, however, because there was still so much I didn’t understand about why I had developed all these feelings.

Shortly afterwards, however, I started studying Energetic NLP (ENLP) developed by Art Giser and had a breakthrough that was to complete my Awakening.

One evening, while in an ENLP workshop, I felt a massive knot in my stomach. My body seemed to be reacting to the workshop leader’s words and, at one point, I felt as though I couldn’t breathe, so I asked what was going on.

He closed his eyes and, smiling, said: ‘Oh, it’s your mother’s anxiety. You are breaking free from your ancestral patterns . . . 98 percent of who you think you are is not truly who you are, it’s other people’s energies in your space. Their beliefs, attitudes, stresses, fears all influence our behavior.’

His words opened up a world of questions for me, but finally I knew where to look for the missing piece of my puzzle.”

—from: The Awakening: 9 Principles for Finding the Courage to Change Your Life by Sidra Jafri