Stress Survival and Somatic Emotional Acupressure

Overwhelming shock to our system must be suppressed and controlled within seconds. That means that the brain has to be flipping switches like mad to relay and divide, confuse, delete, you name it. Imagine. An overwhelming traumatic shock could be from accident, from violation, from any number of things, and often it is misunderstood by us at the time.

Dr. Hamer's German New Medicine approach says that the shock is coded in the brain as dark areas, and where those dark areas are will later determine where they will get diseases such as Cancer. It's an interesting premise, and he claims this after doing more than 10,000 brain scans. He suggests that finding and releasing the repressed tension will often shift them into a state of healing.

The Daily Guru observes: “Many of us are carrying repressed memories of unhealed emotional wounds or traumas from childhood and sometimes from past lives. As long as these things are repressed within you, they will be activated from time to time, pulling you out of Presence or simply preventing you from being present. The ego will be constantly on alert to protect you against a recurrence of these painful experiences. And if the ego is on alert, it will keep you in the world of the mind. These emotions and memories need to be allowed to surface into the light of consciousness for healing and release. When this occurs, we can say that the past is released from you and you are released from the past. This allows you to deepen and settle into the present moment.”

Now, I wouldn't call it the ego. The ego has gotten a bad wrap. But there is definitely a part of us on alert for when IT will happen again. Our entire survival system believes that IT will happen again-that's what antibodies are. They are the protection against the next invasion. So it stands to reason that the emotional self would do the same strategy. Remember Candace Pert's "Molecules of Emotion"? How about "The Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton. 

With the EnK / S.E.A. work, this is exactly what we do. I am specifically asking the body to access and release the repressed charge around events buried in the past. We are not engaging the story, we are releasing the charge. When, and if the memories come up, if repressed, they will surface in a manageable way. 

I've never thought that the best way to help someone with trauma in the past was to make them remember. If the body/mind self has made the decision that it was too much to recall, I have come to respect that wisdom. Don't push the river.

We can't solve the past with the conscious mind because the conscious mind doesn't hold the issue. The unconscious does. We think we can figure things out, find a solution, muscle ourselves, control it. None of those things work and they are time consuming and frustrating.

Sometimes they can even drive the trauma deeper.

Somatic Emotional Acupressure is a safe and effective way to deconstruct the charge even when you don't know what the truth of what happened is. Yet. Remember, the mind is influenced all the time-that's called learning. You might have a feeling, you might suspect. You might even have been told by a psychic some details of your past that you don't remember.

Never accept anything as a truth that hasn't come from yourself, and certainly not without exploring it further. Trust yourself. Your own body/self system remembers everything. If it feels like something happened, something did. The question is WHAT? And often, what was traumatic and overwhelming for the child isn't what the adult would consider. 

Here's a true example:

A young woman had a head on 50 mph car accident a year ago. Since then, she had been nauseated, dizzy, unable to work, unable to move without extreme vertigo. She had been to neurologists, doctors, chiropractors. She had neck pain and shoulder pain. Finally, she was referred to my office. Her body referenced 3 years old as the imprint moment that was active in her now, which means that the current state 'felt the same' to her inside self as something that happened at 3 years of age. She said "my parents got divorced." 

I said to her, "you body is saying that that car accident, head on at 50 mph felt the same, hit you with the same force and overwhelm as your parents divorce did when you were 3 years old." 

She blinked and her body began to release the trauma. At the end of an hour and a half, she was done. She got off the table, danced around the room and was completely clear and out of pain and vertigo. 

How? Because her body was responding to the signaling volume of the emotional response, not to the event. The body doesn't do story or sequential time. It stores bits of sensory information based on volume and resonance. If something NOW hits the same resonant emotional and sensory volume as the event in the past, for the body, it IS the same and it will begin to run the same autonomic survival strategy that it did the first time. If it worked once, it will work again.

Change the referencing field of influence, and you change the current state. Now, most clients take more than one session so this was truly dramatic but this has also happened more than once. It depends on how deeply the trauma is stored, and how much the conscious thinking mind is invested in distracting.

People that work the best with this technique are not afraid of feeling physical sensory information. Tight, tense, heavy, sticky, moving, stuck. People that are afraid of what is down inside and distract themselves with a very active intelligence, may take longer. They may have  more highly developed structures of distraction based on the need to stay safe by remaining in control. It all works if survival is the name of the game. At some point though we realize that with all that focus on survival we aren't really living. When the intelligence lets go of its need to control, we can find our way to peace. 

Surrendering to the process, and trusting that we do not need the old story, just a signal line and listening to the body as it talks in physical sensations, noticing how the energy moves, can be an amazing experience. Noticing the bits of memory fragments that seem random and unrelated shows what is in the 'file folder' accessed by the feelings. Letting go of the old patterns can allow us to move into more life. 

Each time the past is relinquished we have more life force energy to meet each day with. Comments I hear are "Colors are brighter", "I feel taller", "I can hear more", "I feel different", "I'm more here". I know what they mean. With one part of us constantly looking over our shoulder, we aren't living. We are existing. And we are existing in a state of negative expectation. Is it no wonder that we get it? We believe it will happen again and as long as there are active files that the body references, it will happen again, because the system is on alert for it, honed for it, just like the immune system is.

Strategies, Behaviors and Identities

I was taking NLP training at the time, and it was the beginning of my fascination with the brain and belief networks. In NLP we were learning 'new behavior generators', which essentially are techniques to teach people, and for me specifically children, new behaviors to replace their less effective ones. 

Quickly I realized that while I could teach them a new behavior, such as a spelling strategy that specifically gave them the 'how' to do it, they would fall back into the old pattern of loss of capability once they returned to the field of influence that held their 'identity pattern'. 

Even though they would come in being a non-speller and leave being able to spell 'multiplication' backwards, which is no mean feat, try it, leave feeling successful, they would segue back to feeling overwhelmed and believing more in their inability than their new ability.

The quandry I found myself in was how do we maintain their belief in themselves and their own capabilities when everywhere around them gave the message that they couldn't?  Change the schools? Teach the parents? Teach the teachers? It was overwhelming. You can't teach new behaviors if they still BELIEVE they are the old ones.

That means, their identity has become the behavior they are exhibiting. There have been lots of studies since that have documented and corroborated this affect. Teachers being told that the class of students in front of them are gifted when in fact they were the remedial, and the students, held within the teacher's expectation that they were gifted, blossomed and performed to the expectation of the teacher. By the same token, the students that were gifted were given to the remedial teacher and they also performed to the level that they were expected to.

So how often are our children, as well as ourselves, actually performing to the level of the field of expecation of those around us? 

Giving Yourself an A

In "The Art of Possibility" the authors give their students an A at the beginning of the music class, to free them from the fear that limits their performances, on the condition that they write a letter, dated a year in the future, describing everything that the learned and how they have grown from receiving the A in the class. They said to "fall passionately in love with themselves" in the letter, the self that they were writing about, the self of their possibilities and their gift.

It reminded me of what I suggest to clients with cancer. Can you find the gift? Imagine yourself on the other side of this adventure that you are facing, and tell me everything you have learned and how you have grown and how this is the best thing that has ever happened to you? Can you do that? Can you imagine this as the greatest lesson ever lived? Your greatest adventure that will open you wake you up?

Can you fall passionately in love with yourself and see yourself grow and glow and expand and become limitless precisely because of this chapter, and see beyond this to the you that you are becoming?

What is this engagement about? What is it freeing you to do, and be? What have you been avoiding that you can't avoid any longer? What is the choice in front of you?

Can you fall passionately in love with yourself and honor yourself and surrender to the teacher within?

I've brushed cancer 3x and each time it's a cold hard fast slap in the face. "WAKE UP" it said to me. Each time I looked and realized I was facing something that could very well kill me, and I looked at my other possible futures, and the possible choices, and the things I had been avoiding. Once it was my anger. The second it was my pride. The third time it was my voice. I had to laugh that I was willing to die rather than to speak my truth. How deeply that lesson is ingrained in us. Silence or die. Don't rock the boat.

So I vividly and creatively imagined myself doing what I had been avoiding, embracing it instead of running from it. And 3x the 'cancer' was a misdiagnosis. It disappeared off ultrasounds, off mammograms, or was benign in the biopsy. I heard what my system was trying to bring my attention to. I understood where my fear was, where I was limiting myself, my reluctance to live out loud...

So many times we play small, we hide. So many times we default to someone else's plan for us and we hide our bitterness and resentment, but under that bitterness, we also hide something else. Find that something else. Find it and know that this is your spirit calling to you to fly! Understand there is no time to waste! It's time to live and live it large!

Embrace the lesson in front of you, whatever it is, then go into the future, give yourself that A for the lesson well learned. Gift it to yourself now so you know that everything will be ok because you said so.
Then, my friends, pick up your wings and fly. The future is constantly changing-pick a different course.

I have a great new magnet-"don't try and change the wind-change your sails"...
If cancer is the wind, and it's blowing you on a course-giving yourself the A is changing your sails and catching another breeze!

Lesson today

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing".
From the Art of Possibilities


Today I learned that we often miss the good in the NOW moment, for fear of the future moment that might be bad. That for the fear of the possibility of a shadow that might be coming, we miss the sunshine that is reigning down on us in abundance at this moment. That the anticipation of sadness tomorrow blocks our joy today.

Today I realized how many times we worry about the next moment, and miss this one. No wonder time flies past us and we only see it in the rearview window. What an odd angle to look at life from!

Today someone asked me, "but how do I change this? I can't help it, it's how I am. It's how my mother is, it's how we all are. "

We can change it. As soon as we want to. We can by taking control of our thoughts and by catching them, fleetingly fast as they are. We can change it by releasing ourselves from the bondage of our intellect that fears our emotions. Allowing ourselves to FEEL, really feel, frees us.

The School and Mikhail Shetinin

I've just finished watching this amazing 30 min video on a school in the Russian Mountains. It's a school the likes of which we have been dreaming. It is a school where the children are encouraged to think, to ask questions, to delve deeply into a subject until they have mastered it. All students teach, they work in interactive groups that range in age from 8 to 22. They design their own curriculum and design the coursework as well as teach each other what they've learned.

They built the buildings, decorated them, they grow their food. They study marshall arts, folk dancing, rise at 5am and bathe daily in a cold stream. They talk of deep spiritual connections to all of life, and finish high school in 2 years, have masters degrees by 17.  .

They clean the campus themselves, cook their food, grow it. By the time they leave they know how to build a house.

Mikhail Shetinin, the founder, says all children are geniuses if we remove fear and limitation from them and open them to the joy of learning. Ah yes. Fear. The architecture of the buildings, the handpainted murals all is amazing.

There are no tests, no grades, they love to learn and are eager to find out the answers to their questions. These children shine and they are fearless. This is the school we have dreamt of, all of us! They say themselves, this is the future of Peace.

We've wondered what it would be like to live without fear, without competition, without war, strife and limitation, and so many say, it's impossible, it goes against human nature. Watch this and see the shine in the face of these children and tell me then that we thrive on war? That it is our nature to kill each other?

I've said before, we must model what we wish the future to be. Hats off to Shentinin! Well done.

http://www.deepsnowpress.com/school.htm

The DVD is available for sale at the link above. I'm well impressed!