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As a therapist, coach, or healer, you’ll know the clients who feel stuck despite genuinely wanting to move forward. Something deeper is happening beneath the surface, and often it’s subconscious resistance that stands in the way of transformation.
But what exactly is going on at a subconscious level that creates this barrier? It’s not just the fear of change or simple resistance. A major factor is values: specifically, values that are out of balance and in conflict with each other. This creates a powerful internal tug-of-war that keeps clients spinning their wheels, unable to make progress.
Let’s look at how these subconscious conflicts occur and how they can be cleared to unlock rapid breakthroughs.
Values Out of Balance: The Hidden Block
Values are an essential part of how we navigate the world. They shape our decisions, guide our actions, and help us make sense of life. But when values become out of balance, they turn from helpful guides into hidden obstacles.
Take, for example, the value of responsibility.
For someone who values responsibility, being dependable and accountable might be core to their identity. But if this value is out of balance, it can show up in problematic ways:
- Over-responsibility: They take on too much, feeling responsible for everything and everyone around them. This leads to burnout, stress, and frustration as they shoulder responsibilities that aren’t theirs to carry.
- Avoidance of responsibility: Alternatively, someone might fear responsibility because of a past experience where taking it on led to failure or pain. So they avoid it entirely, passing tasks to others or refusing to engage.
When a value is out of balance, it creates emotional and mental roadblocks. Your client probably has no idea that their out-of-balance values are contributing to their stuckness.
Conflicting Values: A Tug-of-War Within
Now imagine a scenario where not just one, but multiple values are out of balance and working against each other. This creates an even more complex problem: an internal tug-of-war.
Let’s return to the value of responsibility. What happens when this value conflicts with another, like control?
A client might:
- Desire control and want to take on responsibility to feel in charge, yet at the same time fear being overwhelmed by the weight of that control.
- Find themselves wanting to micromanage every aspect of their life but also resist responsibility because of past negative experiences.
The result is a constant push and pull, an internal conflict between values that makes it impossible to move forward. One moment, the value of responsibility wins, and the client tries to take on everything. The next, fear of control kicks in, and they resist making decisions or taking action.
This kind of values conflict leaves clients spinning in circles, unable to resolve the tension. And it’s rarely just one conflict: clients may have multiple values clashing in different areas of their life, creating a complex web of subconscious resistance.
How Values Conflicts Lead to Subconscious Resistance
When you multiply this by the number of values we all carry, often 20 or 30, you can see how these conflicts create a massive amount of internal resistance. Clients can be caught in a tangle of opposing values, each pulling in different directions.
This resistance operates at a subconscious level, which is why talk-based approaches and conventional coaching struggle to resolve it. You can’t talk through a values conflict if the client isn’t consciously aware of the battle raging within them. That’s not a failing of the practitioner; it’s a limitation of working at the conscious level. Even when clients desperately want to move forward, these internal barriers keep them stuck.
How Head Trash Clearance Resolves Subconscious Resistance
This is where Head Trash Clearance (HTC) comes in. HTC operates at a subconscious level, allowing us to address and clear the resistance energy that stems from these value imbalances and conflicts. And because the work goes straight to the subconscious, the material tends to surface within the first 10 to 15 minutes of a session, rather than after weeks of careful excavation.
Here’s how it works:
Healing the value
HTC brings out-of-balance values back into harmony. Whether the client is overburdened by responsibility or avoiding it out of fear, HTC neutralises the emotional charge behind these values and brings them back into balance.
Resolving the conflict
Once one value is healed, HTC can work on the second conflicting value. By healing both values, we stop the internal tug-of-war and allow the client to hold both values together in a balanced way.
Creating alignment
With conflicting values no longer fighting each other, clients can move forward without the internal friction that was keeping them stuck. This alignment creates a clear path to progress and transformation.
HTC doesn’t just resolve individual blocks. It brings clients into alignment with their values, and the breakthroughs that follow are often not small shifts. How far and how fast depends on scope and engagement, but when the tug-of-war stops, clients tend to notice it quickly.
Why Values Work is Crucial for Transformation
Values are foundational to how we live and work. When they’re out of balance or in conflict, they create deep-seated resistance that prevents progress. By clearing these subconscious blocks through HTC, we allow clients to break free from their internal battles and experience true transformation.
Whether your clients are struggling with fear of change, resistance to responsibility, or any number of values conflicts, HTC gives you a way to clear the subconscious resistance directly instead of talking around it.
Where to Go Next
- How the Head Trash Clearance method works
- Absolute Healing: the root-level work
- Where to start with the training
- Case studies: HTC in practice
About the author
Alexia Leachman trains therapists, coaches and helping professionals in the Head Trash Clearance Method. Over 16 years and more than 1,000 clearance sessions she has watched what a slow caseload costs the practitioner carrying it, and built a method and a delivery model designed to change that. Author of four books, host of the Fear Free Childbirth podcast (2M+ downloads), and founder of Ladder of Growth. She came to this work as a trained coach with a 15-year commercial background, which is why the method is built like a process rather than a philosophy.