Strange title for an article isn't it? Well let me tell you what I'm talking about. What does your life history consist of? Well it is the sum total of all of the memories of all of the experiences that you have had in your life to date. All of these experiences are "stored" at some level in your mind/body. How are they stored? Well they are stored as "energy imprints" in what is called the "energy bio-field". They are stored in the mind as thoughts and feelings. They are stored at the physical level, i.e. in the body as biochemicals. Now I know that your life history has its own balance of good and no so good memories associated with it. My question however is what impact is the sum total of the "not so good memories" doing to you? Well depending on your life experience, some of you will appreciate the following discussion more than others. If you've had your fair share of "not so good" experiences then you might consider some of these as "traumatic" or "toxic" to you, correct? So what is being said here is that you have stored in your body toxic biochemicals. What impact is this having on your health? Well not good as I'm sure you can tell. There is however a deeper tale to be told here. How many of you have ever had the experience of "leaving your body" either during or after a traumatic incident? Why do you think this happens to anyone? Well when the trauma is happening to the "body" the Being in that body finds it hard to tolerate the emotional and physical pain associated with that trauma and attempts to get away from it. In the process the body is left behind, so to speak, to fend for itself. Once the trauma becomes fully ensconced in that body it becomes less and less hospitable for that Being whose body it is. So over time i.e. over one's life time, as more and more trauma becomes stored in the body the Being starts to feel increasingly uncomfortable in it. They may without realizing it spend less and less time "in it". Now what I mean by "in it" can take many forms. For instance one example would entail what many call "dissociation" i.e. separating one's consciousness from that body. Another more common yet less recognized form of "leaving the body" entails feeling "numb" to what is stored there. Many "choose" to numb themselves through denial, and through distracting activities like work. sex, sports, doing drugs or alcohol, etc. The result of this separation between the Being and their body is that the body becomes the repository of all of the "bad or toxic memories" and this "forces" the Being whose body it is to forfeit the right to being comfortably in it at all times. Now many of you might consider this a normal and necessary process and might accept it as what many call "life". I however wish to say, given my experience helping individuals reclaim their "property rights", so to speak, that this is absolutely "not normal"! I know that many spiritual teaching suggest that one must "transcend" i.e. eventually give up the body. Well in my view this is a mistaken view of what "transcendence" is actually about. Transcendence, in my view is about addressing the real problem and that pertains to releasing all of the "toxicity" that you call your life history stored in your mind/body! This is not only possible; it is the only path to transcendence. |
