Fears Louder? You’re Not Going Backwards. This Is The Shift In Consciousness

I’ve coached 250+ business professionals over the last 5 years.

Let’s say I’ve averaged 10 coaching calls with each person that’s over 2,500 coaching sessions.

Throughout these thousands of coaching calls, I have seen a very clear pattern that almost everyone goes through.

Most transformations I’ve seen have include a moment where you really question everything… 

You question yourself, your path, your goals, and even your purpose.

You’ve been doing the work: journaling, meditating, rewiring your thoughts… and yet suddenly, it feels like you’re going backwards.

It feels like your fears, doubts and concerns are turned up on high volume.

Your inner critic is loud.

If you’ve had this experience, it’s not because you’re going backwards.

It’s the shift in consciousness.

It’s the uncomfortable, transitional space where your old beliefs are coming to the surface so you can release them but your new beliefs haven’t been fully anchored yet.

Becoming The New Self

Here’s what happens when someone decides to change their life.

At first, there’s the high, the early rush of clarity, energy, and motivation that happens within the first 30 days.

You’re dialed in, disciplined, and inspired so you feel the shift happening in real time.

Then comes the dip, the doubts, the fear, the overthinking, the old patterns resurfacing.

You start asking, “Why am I feeling like this again? I thought I’d already dealt with this. Is there something wrong with me?” 

You think you’re failing or you’re not good enough.

But this dip isn’t a sign you’re failing.

It’s proof that the subconscious mind is trying to release what’s been suppressed for years.

The negative thoughts, the anxious energy, the self-doubt, they’re not punishments.

They’re the old consciousness surfacing to be released.

But unfortunately most people don’t see it like that, instead they think they need to go to the doctors and get a diagnosis.

This is why so many people will say they “tried but it didn’t work”.

The people who have success in life, make this shift and let go of the past.

Letting Go Of The Old Self

When you decide to become someone new, you’re also deciding to leave your old self behind.

Your beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and even your biology are adapted to this old version of you.

So as you start embodying your next level, your subconscious will bring all of this old stuff to the surface for you to release.

It feels like a resistance because the subconscious mind is how you’ve learned to be safe in life.

It will silently whisper… “Wait, we’re not safe here.”

It resists the change.

 It tests your faith. 

It tries to pull you back to what’s familiar, mentally, physiologically and yes even biologically.

That resistance is your cocoon, the messy middle between caterpillar and butterfly.

If you don’t learn to go through that process, you stay stuck. 

If you surrender to it, you evolve.

You Can’t Quit

This part gets uncomfortable. It’s where most people quit, label themselves “broken,” and go back to their old ways.

But what if anxiety, fear, and doubt aren’t just mental health problems… 

What if they’re the path to true spiritual growth?

When you stop trying to push the feelings down and instead let them surface, something powerful happens, you integrate.

You heal.

You shed a layer of yourself that no longer fits.

That’s how the shift happens.

The Process: How to Make The Shift

Here’s a simple reflection process I use personally and with clients.

1. Let Your Ego Rip
Grab your journal and write every fear, doubt, or frustration that’s coming up.

Don’t censor it. Don’t spiritualize it. Just get it out.

“My ego says I’m not good enough.”
 “My ego says I can’t keep this up.”
 “My ego says it’s too hard.”

Let it all spill out of your head and onto the page.

2. Ask: What Would I Have to Believe for This to Be True?
Become the detective of your own subconscious.

If your mind says, “I’ll never be successful,” what belief does that reveal?

Maybe it’s “I’m not worthy of success” or “It’s to hard to be successful”

3. See What Your Subconscious Is Trying to Release
What theme keeps showing up?

That’s the belief ready to die.

That’s the old identity you’re outgrowing.

4. Acknowledge How It Once Served You
How was this belief serving you positively?

Every limiting belief was born from protection.

It kept you safe once. But what kept you safe then is now keeping you small now.

5. Decide What’s No Longer True
Ask yourself, “Are these beliefs the absolute truth?”

Then consciously choose what you’re no longer identifying with.

This is where the shift begins.

6. Anchor the New Truth
Write it clearly. Speak it out loud.

Don’t Force It. Allow It.
You can’t rush your rebirth.

The dip is the sacred pause before your next season of expansion.

It’s kinda like a pregnancy, it has to happen before birth.

When it feels heavy, remember: the pain you feel isn’t proof that you’re broken, it’s the signal that something old is dissolving and something new is coming.

So don’t resist it.

Don’t suppress it.

Allow it.

Because on the other side of the dip… is your shift.

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You got this.

With Optimism,

Josh