Everyone's Incompetent at Something

Judith A. Swack Ph.D. • November 29, 2023

That’s obvious you say. So what’s the big deal? Who even wants to be competent at everything? The logical answer is to decide what areas of competence are important to you, and if you’re not good in those areas, take a class, learn a skill, read a book, have somebody teach you how to do it, hire or marry someone with that skill. And where you are incompetent but don’t want to or can’t do anything about it, accept it gracefully.

The problems come when:
people who are competent believe they are incompetent and hold back on fully contributing what they have to offer to the world, or people who are incompetent are too ashamed and afraid to admit it and avoid learning the skills they need, thus stagnating in their lives, or overcompensate (the superwoman complex) by trying to do it all (sometimes to the point of burnout), and not very well at that. When people come for HBLU™ therapy the goal is to clear the negative programming around competence in order to bring out their best gifts so they can fully contribute what they have to offer and feel fulfilled in their lives.


Success Stories
Jeanette was a very competent computer hardware engineer. She always wanted to be a software guru, but felt incompetent in that area. Although she had a lot of experience programming in one kind of computer language, she felt incompetent about transferring that knowledge to other computer languages. So she held herself back, and stayed in a job where she was bored. After clearing her blocks about competence in our HBLU ™ sessions, she realized that her strong suit was that she is a quick learner and thus very versatile. Since all computer languages have certain similarities, she could learn and use new languages quickly. At her next job interview, she emphasized these points, and they hired her. She’s been doing software design engineering ever since. In the last 10 years, she has worked for three companies, programmed in several computer languages, and finally achieved her goal of being a software guru.


I met Sandy at a party. She confided that she was dating a wonderful man who asked her to marry and have a family with him. She told me that although she loved him, and he would make a wonderful husband and father, she had decided to break up with him immediately because she could not read or spell well. She was afraid that he would discover this after they had children and divorce her when he found that she couldn’t read bedtime stories. I urged her not to do anything rash, and to see me immediately. In our HBLU session I taught her the NLP strategy for spelling using the visual part of her brain. She was able to spell immediately. I then recommended she get a reading tutor to help her learn and add more words to her memory. She did, and learned to read very well. She married her wonderful man and over the years had three children to whom she read bedtime stories.


Connie is a busy dentist. While working for several months on the goal of building her business and running it in a more organized way, she came in for one of our sessions complaining of muscle soreness throughout her whole body. She explained that she had just run a marathon. “I didn’t know you were a runner,” I remarked. “Well, actually, I’m not,” she replied. “You have to really train to run a marathon. Did you train for this?” I asked. “Not enough,” she replied. “Why did you do it,” I asked. “My friends were all running this marathon and asked me to join them, so I did,” she said. During the HBLU ™ healing session, we found that she was afraid to admit that she was incompetent at anything and felt that she had to be all things to all people. Not only did this pattern result in her physical overexertion, it also prevented her from being organized and using her staff more efficiently at work. After we cleared this pattern, I asked what she would have said to her friends, now. She replied, “I would have felt perfectly comfortable laughing off their invitation and thanking them for thinking of me.” After our session, she returned to her practice with a better understanding of real world limitations, and began to make the necessary changes in staff utilization.


What is HBLU ™ ?
HBLU ™ is an innovative, rapid, and powerful new mind/body/spirit healing methodology developed by Judith A. Swack, Ph.D., a Biochemist/Immunologist, Master NLP Practitioner, Mind/Body Healer, and leader in the field of Energy Psychology. HBLUTM integrates biomedical science, psychology, hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, applied kinesiology, and other energy psychology techniques with original research on the structure of complex damage patterns. HBLU ™ is so effective because:


  1. The client’s deepest wisdom guides the healing,
  2. It has menus of well characterized patterns and effective healing techniques,
  3. It clears blocks to success at the conscious, unconscious, body, and soul levels.


HBLU ™ helps people rapidly achieve the results they want to live full, happy, healthy, and satisfying lives. Maybe it can help you, too.

Dr. Swack and her associates work with people in person or by phone. Healing from the Body Level Up ™, Inc. is located in Needham, MA. Call 781-444-6940 to book an appointment, order a free information package, and order audio and videotapes.


Boston Women’s Journal August/September 2007

Nothing Is Impossible.

By Copyright 2025 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • January 31, 2025
James ’s brother, Samuel , sustained severe traumatic brain injury from a car accident. He spent the year going to many doctors for treatment, but could barely function. Samuel complained that not only did standard medical care not help him, but the doctors ignored and mistreated him. Whenever James suggested any complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or HBLU, Samuel immediately came up with excuses as to why going for that kind of treatment was impossible. (Notice that he didn’t claim that that kind of treatment wouldn’t work. He just made it impossible to get there.) James said, “Even though I feel really guilty about it, I’ve stopped trying to help him because he makes everything impossible.” Monica ’s 25-year-old son, Ed , suffers from such severe debilitating Crohn’s disease that he couldn’t finish high school, can’t work, can’t leave the house, and can barely leave his room. Traditional medical care and medication is not helping. Monica and her husband bought him a dog thinking that would cheer him up, but Ed does not interact with it. Monica has suggested and made appointments for many complementary therapies such as nutrition, naturopathy, family therapy, and HBLU, but Ed refuses to go to these appointments. Monica experiences guilt and deep sorrow that her son is so ill, and she and her husband haven’t been able to help him. Valerie ’s partner, Nancy , is 200 pounds overweight, suffers from ADD and severe anxiety, and hates her job. Nancy had been on medication for the ADD and anxiety, but when her psychiatrist retired, never attempted to find another provider and let her medication lapse. When Valerie suggested that Nancy find new doctors and get back on medication to help her mental function and treatment for overweight, Nancy refused to make any follow-up phone calls or emails. Although they had gotten engaged in the Spring, by Fall, Valerie had asked for the ring back. Valerie said, “I don’t think I can live with her if she refuses to take care of herself and won’t let me help her.” What do James, Monica, and Valerie all have in common? They feel deep sorrow, guilt, and frustration that they can’t help someone they care about deeply. But the people who are suffering are also trapped in a pattern that continues to cause them suffering. Both the impotent helpers and the perpetual sufferers are trapped in a seducer strategy called, “I’m impossible.” What is a Seduction Pattern? Seduction patterns are some of the most energy draining, perverse, and frustrating patterns a person can experience. People with seduction patterns get tricked into doing things they don’t want to do. They are unable to leave bad relationships, jobs, family, or other upsetting situations.
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November's Miracle

By S.C. LICSW • November 20, 2024
It’s that time again, where I get to shout out another amazing woman. Dr. Judith Swack has changed my life! In fact she has changed our family’s life. I found her in summer of 2023 . There was so much unhealed shit and my body was paying for it. I am 46 years old, and I have been in therapy on and off since I was 13. I’ve had some lovely therapists. I’m also a therapist myself. And I can honestly, wholeheartedly say, NOTHING has ever helped with lasting changes as much as Judith. She’s one of the smartest women I’ve ever met - she’s a neuroscientist + an energy healer. And the work she does - what we do in session - cannot even really explain it. It’s weird as f*ck. And it works!! In the past little over a year, I have managed to change a couple of behaviors I have not been able to change in 20 years. no exaggeration, and not for lack of trying. One of my 11 year old sons was paralyzed by fear of spiders - had a phobia, happened to be with me one day when I had an appointment and was going to wait in the waiting room, she said he could come in even though she doesn’t work with kids. I kid you not, she fixed that sh*t. In one session. He still doesn’t like spiders, but he isn’t frozen in fear anymore - he can get a tissue and pick it up and move on. This is unbelievable. And remember last week when I Saturday spotlighted my financial coach and how my husband’s feeling lonely in that part of our marriage is now getting resolved? Well, before I reached out to my financial coach to begin with, my husband and I had a joint session with Dr. Swack, where she helped heal a piece of our relationship which we’ve been stuck, going in circles for years! That clearing gave me the energy and thought to reach out for financial coaching to begin with… And if you need any convincing that this is the person for healing from trauma, I invite you to reach out and speak with my husband himself…. I % believe in all this energy healing etc, but he is a very logical, rational, no bullshit guy. He doesn’t do therapy. Talk therapy never worked for him, and he thinks it’s a complete waste. And I couldn’t explain this to him - how this is different or what it is. Nor did I try. I didn’t even ever suggest he should go… But when he saw our son get cured of the arachnophobia, and our son is very similar to him, no bullshit, rational, logical, and he said it worked, and we saw it worked he decided to try it… He decided to give it sessions… I think to prove to both of us it was all bullshit. He came home from the first session livid. But decided he would go back. He also came back from the second session angry, and told me all about how he yelled at Dr. Swack and told her it was bullshit… AND how she didn’t give a f*ck what he thought …”it doesn’t matter if you believe it or think it’s bullshit, I’m not talking to your rational mind, I’m talking to your subconscious” she’s told him numerous times… And suffice to say, he’s been about 9x now, and he too, is operating fundamentally differently. Our marriage is operating fundamentally differently. Traumas and patterns we have both carried and acted upon for years seem to be being dissolved. It’s really wild. If you are seeking a trauma healer or healing for anything, I can’t recommend Dr. Swack higher. I once asked Dr. Swack how to explain what she does to people, and she said “tell them I work with your subconscious”. I don’t think that really explains it fully… or maybe it does… either way it’s amazing. S.C. LICSW

The Relationship Readiness Stages

By Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • April 8, 2024
One of my favorite projects is getting people happily married. To do that I did quite a bit of original research and discovered that just as there are psychological child development stages, there are 3 psychological relationship readiness stages.
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