One of the best explanations I've found online.

Recall an event that triggered you. Your reaction was related either to fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Ask – what do I believe the most dominant person in the room, when this reaction occurred for the first time, thinks of me when I’m reacting this way? Who am I for them? Now identify the voice of your self-devaluation that cemented this unsought pattern. Note that this voice might not be the same as the answers you’ve got so far. Ask: - Under whose paradigm am I operating when I experience this triggering reaction? - What is the voice that causes me to devalue myself? Question the validity of that voice through logic. Realize how it is irrelevant to your life. Once you do that, you will no longer operate within the paradigm imposed/created by that person. You can use this method to heal the fear of intimacy.

Any hidden story is internalised when we buy into other people’s judgments, falsely believing that there is no other option than to live our lives according to the frame someone else has prepared for us. So how can we find a hidden story that runs our life? It’s about noticing that there might be a difference between what we imagine to be versus what we believe. One can be negative, and the other one can be positive. The phrase ‘I imagine it to be’ discloses the hidden narrative you’ve adopted. To realise what story you’re in, look at possible disparities between the statements ‘I believe that’ and ‘I imagine it to be’. For instance, ‘I imagine the rich people to be cruel’. If it comes with ‘I believe the rich people are good’, the story you live in needs the rich to be cruel, so you can play your part in it. To reject this narrative and your role in it, you need to go back in time to the moment when you bought into it. And then disregard the assertion as a matter that is not true and does not serve you. If you’re struggling with it, it can be helpful also to ask yourself these two questions: Whose criteria do I deem absolute about this? And Who am I for that person? Now I’d like you to test if you’re on your desired trajectory. I imagine (those who I wish to become) to be………. See what comes to your mind. Know that a negative is specifically limiting because it is impossible to become a person we ascribe negative qualities to.

Very eye-opening stuff.

When we lived in Atlantis, how did we perceive the astral realm vs our reality compared to how we see it now?