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Deprogramming

People who are highly sensitive and energetically perceptive often absorb far more than they consciously choose. Everything from emotions, beliefs, expectations, problems, and energetic patterns from family systems, genetics, relationships, environments, and culture.

Over time, this absorption can become internalized, shaping nervous system responses, emotional patterns, and identity in ways that no longer reflect who you truly are.

Deprogramming is a form of remote energy healing that supports the release of these internalized patterns at an energetic and nervous-system level, allowing your system to reorganize around its own natural baseline, your own essential frequency rather than long-held survival strategies. This work is gentle, non-invasive, and trauma-aware. It is not about fixing you or changing who you inherently are. It is about saying "hello" on a spirit to spirit level to your true self and clearing what was never meant to be carried. It is about reclaiming yourself, your power, and your freedom to truly choose and express yourself through your life.

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A Child Friendly Story: The Backseat Driver & the Bike
An Illustration of how programming works through the clairvoyant lens

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How Your Energy Gets Programmed

Imagine your brain is a camera that takes snapshots of everything you do. When you get hurt—like for example, when you fall off your bike and scrape your knee—your brain takes a quick picture of that moment and saves it in a special folder. That specific snapshot is called a "pain picture." Your brain doesn’t do this to be mean. It does it to protect you! It wants you to remember that falling hurts so you can be careful next time.

But then, your mom sees you fall and gets super worried. Because she loves you, she has her own scary pictures about you getting hurt. She says, "Don't get on that bike, you're going to get hurt again!" Then your teacher sees you wobble and says, "You aren't very good at riding your bike yet, you should wait a few years." Then maybe the pastor at your church, after hearing your bike story, says that perhaps you didn’t pray enough or ask forgiveness for something and God couldn’t protect you, or that God was punishing you for something you did wrong to teach you a lesson. Now, you have the heavy energy of shame sitting right on top of fear and the feeling of not being good enough. You now have the ingredients to a recipe that creates disconnection from yourself, from your soul, spirit, and your own knowing.

When they say those heavy, worried words, they are unconsciously projecting their own limitations and heavy emotionally filled pictures around what they think you are capable of right into your mind energetically. All of those pictures and directives pile up on top of your hurt knee story and create a huge, dark cloud of limitations, control, fear, shame, and not being good enough. In response to this big heavy dark cloud of energy, a strict rule or list of directives gets solidified on top of that pain picture in your mind as a result. These directives are called a program. A picture just shows what happened, but a program is a command—a strict directive that tells you what you must do, or what you must not do, who you should be, or not be etc. A program takes a little level-2 ouchy and turns the volume up to a level-10 scream, commanding "You are bad, you are wrong, and you are not safe! Lock the doors! Never look at a bike again!"

The Open Door and the Backseat Driver

Because that level-10 cloud of fear, shame and outside emotions is so loud and overwhelming, your own inside self might feel too small and sad to sit in it. You might shrink back, step away from the controls of your bike story, and leave the door to that room wide open.


This is a totally normal human response. We all have our own "bike story." Because the door to that room can be left wide open, an outside visitor passing by might find a match with your story. All of that left-behind energy, emotion, and shame makes the room feel exactly like home."  Think of this visitor like the hired help that you handed over the keys to that you forgot you hired, or like a backseat driver. This backseat driver can have a matching story of their own—maybe they love being in control and offered to help run that room for you, or maybe they are terrified of bikes too. They see the open door, see that familiar cloud of fear, and say, "Perfect, this feels like home! I'm moving in." They jump right into the captain's chair of your bike folder and take over the controls. By feeding their own frequency into that original pain picture, they amplify the existing programming even more.

Now, the backseat driver is the one running the program. Every time you even look at your bicycle, they start screaming instructions from the back: "STOP! DANGER! RUN AWAY!" They yell so loudly and so often that you on an energetic soul level may accidentally let go of your own steering wheel. You might climb out of the driver's seat energetically and sit in the passenger side. Because the backseat driver has been talking inside your mind for so long, you get completely used to their voice. You start to think their voice is your voice. You look at the backseat driver and say, "I guess that's just who I am. I am just a person who is terrified of bikes." But it is an illusion! That isn't you at all. It is just an uninvited, or invited but forgotten visitor running an old program that is sitting on a painful undigested experience in a room that belongs to you, in your house.

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Reclaiming Your Steering Wheel and Your Freedom

Often times, the backseat driver rarely leaves on their own, and their directives never update. You grow up. You turn 30 or 40 years old. You are big, tall, and totally strong enough to ride any bike in the world. But when you walk past a bicycle, the backseat driver wakes up, grabs the controls, and floods your body with that exact same level-10 terror from when you were five years old. Your view of reality is totally warped. You are a strong adult, but you are letting an old, outside visitor and the directives of those people around you freeze your body over a tiny scraped knee from a long time ago. You might think, "what is wrong with me? Why do I have such intense reactions that are so out of proportion?" 

 

Deprogramming isn’t just about asking that backseat driver to leave. It is like doing a deep, magical spring cleaning of that entire room so you can re-own it completely again.  Deprogramming is about walking into that room, tapping the backseat driver on the shoulder, and saying, "Hey, pack your bags. This is my car, and I am taking the steering wheel back."
It is also about completely clearing out the heavy rules and programming left behind by your mother, your teacher, and the pastor, as well as that outside visitor or backseat driver who stacked their own strict commands on top of your story. You completely wipe away the scary warnings, the limitations, the rules that say you aren't good enough, and that heavy weight of shame that told you that you were bad or being punished for something. 

Finally, it is about washing the old hurt right out of that original pain picture of falling off your bike, turning it into a quiet memory, and filing it away safely so that the physical shock is no longer trapped in your body, never to get stuck there ever again. That experience can then be digested and transformed into wisdom.


Deprogramming is about reclaiming that room, reclaiming your self, and reclaiming your own knowingness for who you are. It is about taking back your power for where it was accidentally, coercively, or unintentionally given away. A lot of the time, the karma that we are living out and suffering the effects from is being created from the places in ourselves that we aren’t owning or even occupying. While the backseat driver gets off scott-free when the policeman pulls you over. You are the one who pays the ticket, or the karmic debt that may not even have anything to do with you or your original story. 

After the Session

Many clients after a deprogramming session will report feeling lighter and having a deeper clarity about what is true for them. Clients report a stronger connection with themselves and a deeper sense of safety inside their own body and energy. They report noticing the ability to move toward their purpose without self-sabotage and a natural improvement in health, stress levels, boundaries, expression, and creativity.

 

During the deprogramming session a client may feel various sensations as energy moves. However, you may just experience a lightening and an opening up as the weight you've carried for so long falls away. The effects of a deprogramming session will typically take around 3-5 days to move through your system. The body and spirit enters what we call a "growth period" as your life and your body recalibrate to match the steps you took energetically. Many clients will report having new insights and shifts in their life, relationships, and health long after the session. 

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Free 20-Minute Clarity Call

Get clear on what’s driving your pattern and whether deprogramming is the right next step for you.

This is not a reading or a session. We assess what’s running the pattern, discuss what this work involves, and determine if its a fit you.

Contact

Jeffrey Smith

Clinical Qigong Practitioner & Qigong Meditation Instructor

Jingui Golden Shield Qigong Instructor

 

Located at The Healing Portal

3820 S Palo Verde Rd Suite #111 Tucson, AZ 85714

Located at Envision Wellness

8700 E Tanque Verde Rd, Suite 100 Tucson, AZ 85749

​​Tel: 303.564.5764​

jeff.centeredliving@gmail.com

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