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A consistent, transformational phenomenon occurs for individual clients and Core Wisdom students after I guide them through the process of dissolving their limiting beliefs, past traumas, phobias, fears, and negative conditioning.
During the dissolving process, the client or student often locates the memory of a past incident that they experience is related to the present issue at hand. They then dissolve the negative energy or trauma embedded in the memory.
Afterwards, debriefing their experience with me, they not only report that the energy or trauma associated with the event is no longer present -- be it anger, bitterness, resentment, fear, etc. --- they also spontaneously share that the whole interpretation of that past event has altered.
They do not remember less about what happened. Quite the opposite. In most cases, they have much more access to the details of what happened than ever before, yet there is no negative reaction or constriction present.
There is a transforming reorganization of the memory. The whole story and interpretation from the point of view of being a victim, and of blaming the other person or persons for the way they were and what they had or hadn't done has dissolved!
What is present instead is a deep awareness of the unconscious mechanical conditioning that had kept them stuck in replaying the same negative programming over and over again in their lives, attracting similar situations and people that continued to reinforce their victim view of life. They realize how much their lives consisted of unconsciously reacting to present events as though they were the same as long-ago incidents from the past, and how their identification with this fear-driven victim survival scenario had kept them asleep to their true nature.
In the light of this understanding, they are able to release the death grip that these past events and decisions had over their lives. An authentic and spontaneous sense of forgiveness and compassion arises for themselves and for others.
As I listen to person after person speak about their issues afterwards, it is evident how totally they have altered the whole context and substance of the memories. They have literally re-authored their own past. There is no longer any avoidance, suppression or repression of the past events. There is no need anymore to "cope" with the cloud of a reactivating image of the past, or to identify with and tell the same story over and over again (out loud or mentally to oneself).
The images, including the inner "soundtrack" of decisions, conclusions, and beliefs that have chattered away relentlessly ---explaining and justifying everything that happened from a powerless victim's point of view---spontaneously shift. What is present in their place is a coherency regarding everything that had occurred that is effortlessly and completely embraced, and from which all reactivation is absent. It does not matter how "heavy" or traumatic the incident had been --- concentration camps, rape, molestation, abandonment, beatings, the death of loved ones, etc. The incident becomes a "what happened" that no longer has a negative and limiting impact on their present way of being or on their actions. Present instead is a simple and powerful clarity, a sense of "that happened, and I'm okay." Each person is free to BE fully in the NOW.
What about the future? Since people's images of the future are shaped and colored by their memories of the past, not only do people's past memories alter, but what they can imagine in terms of a future alters as well. Possibilities that did not exist before begin to unfold themselves naturally. Rather than a reactive future shaped by the attempt to overcome, change, suppress, or avoid the past, what arises is the power to create a future generated by an intentional commitment unencumbered by the past.
What we call reality is wonderfully malleable!
Each of us has the potential to be conscious, healing "time travelers." We all have the ability to go within and time travel to the energy patterns of the past--- to release all resentments, anger, fear, shame, guilt, grief, disappointments, thwarted intentions, limiting beliefs and thoughts, and forgive ourselves and others. The past images and decisions that unconsciously shape and control our lives are there waiting to be released.
The majority of us buried these "prisoners of our past" deeply in our unconscious years ago in order to avoid them, because we decided they had the power to threaten us, hurt us, terrify us, shame us, or invalidate us and we never wanted to go there again. But the deeper we bury and resist these energy patterns--which is unconscious survival programming--the more they control our lives, having us mechanically react to anything in the present that reminds us of those images from the past.
When these past patterns are unexamined and stored in the mind, they lead to chronic stress, and the disharmony of mind and body. Often, the stored "soundtracks" of judgments, evaluations, and inherited beliefs that we heard from others or said to ourselves in a moment of despair or distress are taken on as the "truth."
Here are some such favorites:
"You're no good!"
When we identify with any of these kind of negative statements, and believe them, they decide the direction and quality of our lives, and shape what we can and cannot do.Then we spend our lives either trying to hide this "truth" or trying to prove to ourselves and others that it isn't so. This is like someone who decides "I never want to be like my parents," and then spends his whole life mechanically and reactively controlled by the need to "not be like them" instead of finding his own truth and authentic way of being.
Tapping into our core wisdom, we realize that all those memories we resist, that limit and constrain us, are nothing more than energy patterns occurring in the present as thoughts, emotions, images, and body sensations. We are then free to access them, and release them from our dark, self-imposed prison of pain and suffering. In reality, they are nothing more than "smoke and mirrors." When we shine the Light of Awareness on them they dissolve into nothingness, much the way the gothic novels describe how a vampire, taken from the safety of the darkness, dissolves in the light of the Sun.
When we use the methods for dissolving the past taught in Core Wisdom to free these "prisoners of the past," we find miraculously that we have freed ourselves, and the past no longer colors our present. We can still remember the past, but the past has stopped remembering and controlling us. We experience our true nature and creative power as Awareness itself, free to experience the joy and inner peace that is our true inherent nature.
We are free to create our life as an ongoing work of art.
-- Hal Isen
From Core Wisdom On-Line Number 66 - August 12, 2006
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