The Power of Higher Agreements

A higher agreement can help to dissipate psychological tension and aid in busting the CAGE stories we all carry.  A higher agreement is a statement we can believe in to remind us of the truth.  For example, a higher agreement aimed at dispelling a belief that we are not good enough could be: “I can create what I want despite my belief system.”

Using a higher agreement or higher agreements in our creative journey is an effective way of dissolving the psychological tension that arises as a result of the creation process.

As we know, there are three aspects required for creating:

• Creative Tension—using the structure of an end result and a vision and being clear about your current reality.
• Intuition—allowing yourself to receive what is obvious whether that be an insight or an inspired action.
• Mastery of Focus—being able to switch your focus from being in your CAGE and creating from that space to being in your vision and creating in that

When we establish creative tension, we also raise our psychological tension. Tension seeks resolution along the path of least resistance. And the path of least resistance will be where our energy is most of the time.

So, if we're unconscious about what's going on in our CAGE, the path of least resistance becomes resolving the psychological tension of our CAGE, and our energy will be going into that as opposed to creating our vision.

To create effortlessly, we want our power and energy in the creative tension.  There are two key ways of doing this:

• By putting the power into our vision, by being in that vision, and by choosing it
• By taking the power out of the psychological tension, by recognising it and making ourselves conscious of it

We’ve shared many exercises that can support you in doing this, such as:

• Stepping into the vision (simply stepping into our vision and choosing it puts the power in that vision)
• CREATE exercise (when we put the power into the vision and name the psychological tension, thus taking the power out of that tension)
• SHIFTing (recognizing when we're in our CAGE, honouring this fact in order to take the power out of it, and stepping into the vision of what we want to create puts the power back into our vision)

There is yet another exercise that can support you in taking the power out of any psychological tension: creating a higher agreement.

Taking some of the power out of our psychological tension can serve us in staying in the higher vibration because it stops us from having our CAGE rattled as much.  This can mean we need to SHIFT less, so it feels even easier to stay in the higher.

When I started learning about my CAGE, every time someone criticised me (or I perceived it like that!) it was like someone had driven a knife into my side—I felt the pain of my CAGE telling me that this meant that I wasn’t good enough.  These days, I have a powerful higher agreement that states that I want to be of service to my end result, and so when someone gives me feedback, I can appreciate it as serving me towards creating what I love.  It feels more like someone gently prodding me in the side.

So, what exactly is a higher agreement?

Higher agreements are powerful in the creation process.  These agreements are what hold us in our highest vision rather than allowing the stories of our CAGE to cloud what we know to be true.  We don’t need to change our lower-level, CAGE agreements to create. Our beliefs, assumptions and definitions have been with us a long time and are a core part of what makes us human.  Trying to ‘fix’ them would keep us focused on and worried about our stories instead of dedicating that focus to creating.  A higher agreement is helpful in neutralizing these stories and putting the power back into our creative energy.  As a tool in the creation arsenal, higher agreements can shatter psychological tension, catapulting us toward what we would truly love to create.

Higher agreements bust the CAGE story cycle

One common belief type is the “I’m not good enough” lie.  Your CAGE will create stories that highlight this belief whenever you are working towards a choice, especially one that is a little higher on the Fibonacci creation spiral.  Your identity will do its best to give you plenty of examples of how you are not good enough, reiterating to your subconscious that this belief is true.

This can be a toxic cycle without introducing higher agreements.  A simple higher agreement that pacifies this belief could be, “I can create what I want despite my belief system”.  It is a simple way to alert your subconscious that you are headed down an old story path and that your higher vibration is in control.

Higher agreements versus affirmations

To some, higher agreements may sound like affirmations—the popular, yet ineffective practice of reciting positive statements in the hope of one day believing them.  Affirmations are a way to try and trick your subconscious into believing something that we want to be true, whilst down deep we don’t believe it.  By affirming and repeating enough times, the goal is for our inner psyche to eventually believe it.  Unfortunately, affirmations only reiterate to our subconscious that we don’t believe we are good enough and that we require fixing. Our subconscious mind doesn’t just take what we say at face value, it looks beneath that to what is really going on.

“I can lose weight easily”, “I am good enough”, “I am worthy”, “I am smart enough for this new role”.  All of these statements are telling our subconscious that we don’t have believe we can achieve these things—and, since our focus is on all of the ways we are not  good enough, we inadvertently create more of what we don’t want.  Remember: focus creates reality.

On the other hand, a higher agreement rises above the oscillation of our CAGE and anchors our Spirit to a more powerful vision.  Higher agreements neutralize the negative story loop and reprogram the subconscious to aim higher.

Please note that a higher agreement is not the opposite of the negative story loop that is playing in your CAGE (that would be closer to being an affirmation).  A higher agreement is something that rings true that you truly believe in, and that elevates you out of the negative thought spiral.

I have a belief system that frequently finds new ways to convince me that I am not good enough.  Because of this, constructive feedback was a difficult thing for me to hear.  I would become defensive or immediately jump to the conclusion that I truly wasn’t good enough and find excuses not to aim for my end result.  I would have a physical reaction to feedback and would position myself in such a way to avoid it.

Today, I’ve landed on a higher agreement that serves me to listen to and truly hear feedback with a grateful heart.  What I once perceived as criticism now supports me in creating what I would love.  I now choose “to be in service to my end result”.  This simple agreement allows me to understand feedback as a gift, just another step towards creating what I would love.

This agreement also allows me to take the power out of my psychological tension and the CAGE stories that reiterate my instinctive belief system.  Since I am operating in my higher vibration more often, I find that my need to SHIFT comes less frequently and it is easier to remain in my higher.

Higher agreements in action

My belief structure causes me to avoid conflict.  As a result, I have been a people-pleaser for most of my life.  If everyone is happy and I don’t rock the boat, my identity feels like it is safe.  What I know to be true is that I can’t please one-hundred percent of people one-hundred percent of the time.  This fact does not stop me from creating what I would love in my life.

Since people-pleasing has been a main component of my fundamental belief structure for so long, I need to remain conscious of these behaviours.  I created a higher agreement that helps elevate my vibration when I find myself falling back into old patterns.

“Pleasing people doesn’t make them like me” hangs on a post-it note above my desk to serve as a reminder.  I know this statement to be true: life isn’t about pleasing people; it is about creating what I want.

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