Layers by John Macpherson Allan

What if the beliefs holding you back were installed before you were old enough to question them? In Layers, guitarist, music educator, and lifelong meditator John Macpherson Allan traces the origins of adult limitation back to their source — the classroom moments, the labels, the public comparisons and quiet rejections of childhood that shape a life long before we have the tools to examine them. Drawing on 45 years of teaching and 35 years of daily meditation practice, Allan shows how these early wounds calcify into perfectionism, approval-seeking, procrastination, and distraction in adult life — and offers a concrete, accessible practice for releasing them: an eight-centre energy release meditation developed and refined over decades. This is not a book about fixing yourself. It is an invitation to examine what you are carrying, understand where it came from, and decide — perhaps for the first time — whether you still want to carry it.