Old Habits Don’t Open New Doors

The Loop of Experience

There’s a story I often share about a student who came to Reiki training and for several treatments, saying, “I keep ending up in these terrible relationships with my heart broken. Can you give me Reiki to fix my heart chakra?”

I told her what I’ve seen time and again: life repeats its lessons until you learn them. It’s not punishment, it’s intelligence. The universe keeps showing you what you haven’t yet mastered and what you are still doing wrong. There was nothing wrong with her heart chakra by the way. It was a mindset issue.

We think we want change, but change can only happen when we stop living from habit and our old patterns and when we can meet life differently and we can just let go.

The truth is, your body only knows how to survive through its current and past patterns and attachments. It’s wired for safety, not expansion. But the next version of you, the one waiting behind those familiar walls, doesn’t exist in your body’s memory yet. You have to create it. You have to create something new from scratch, from the materials you have available.

To step through that door, you need to act, feel, and respond in ways your old self never has. Old habits do not open new doors.

The realisation of that is where evolution lives.

Ask yourself:
“Where in my life am I still repeating what I already know?”

And then:
“What could I do differently this week that my old self would never have tried?”

Even the smallest shift, a new way of responding, a moment of stillness instead of reaction, can open a new door.

The Abundant Self & The Abundant Mind

This is the work of The Abundant Self, stepping into new patterns of energy, thought, and awareness that expand who you are. The Abundant Self programme now has five confirmed to attend and others are still thinking about it. I’m capping attendance for this first class at 8 attendees, so if you would like to attend, please do contact me as soon as you can!

The free Abundant Mind Facebook community is where this exploration continues. It’s new and still settling into rhythm, but it’s open now for those ready to live this work. Join, connect, and add your voice to what’s unfolding.

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Upcoming Courses: Practice as Transformation

Every practice is a doorway — each attunement, each session, each insight.
Step through one of these and meet yourself anew:

✨ Reiki Level 1 – 24th & 25th October
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Closing Thought

You can’t open new doors with old keys.
And you can’t become who you’re meant to be by staying loyal to who you’ve been.

Life will keep sending you the same lesson until you stop surviving it, and start transforming through it.

Step forward. Your next version is waiting.

All the best,

Steve