Dear Nikkole:

The feeling of being less than, I think it  can and will go away entirely but it will take a  long, long time and within that time you may think, like I did, that it already went away only to find  out sooner than later that  it  didn’t  go away. This is why  I wrote that extreme patience is required. I can’t  tell you yet  that the  feeling went  away entirely for me but seems to me that it will. If I live  long enough, that is. The physical process of changing what we  believe about  ourselves takes a long, long time and there is  no way to make  it faster than  is possible.

Note, if  you will, that it is not about changing our  beliefs alone, it is  changing what  we  believe so to believe in what  is  true to reality. It is about  changing  what we believe that is not true to reality to what is. Some of what we  believe is already t rue to reality,  so no need to change those.

A belief  is a thought glued (in our brain) by emotion. The emotion is  very convincing.

“How do  we  understand more on an emotional level”- how do  we feel not  less than, is the question, correct, how do we feel sure that we  are equal, worthy-

I had to  go back to my childhood to figure out  how it happened that this  belief  of being less-than took hold. Insight into childhood where our core beliefs are formed is essential, I don’t  see  how it is possible to  change core/basic beliefs formed  in  childhood without going back and examine what happened there.

Do you want to do that?

anita