Completing the Circuit of Experience

by Jim Granger on May 15, 2009

“I’ve done all the right things for years. Why am I not getting the consistent results I expected by now?”

Experiencing inconsistent results can be a rather constant annoyance floating in the background of your thoughts (like a “splinter in your mind” as Morpheus said to Neo in “The Matrix”). It sure was for me until I discovered the missing link that finally turned the tides in favor of producing not only consistent, but dependable results for positive and lasting changes in my life.

That missing link was that I hadn’t learned how to complete the circuit of experience that is necessary to consistently resolve any issue, habit, or belief system that I was still struggling with in my life. Completing the circuit meant learning how to connect my thoughts, emotions, beliefs, etc. to my body sensations!

Yes, that’s right, body sensations.

Why body sensations? Because when you anchor your Awareness through your body sensations to whatever you may be experiencing in the moment, you complete the circuit of experience that allows whatever you’re feeling to be fully experienced to completion.

I call this a clean burn.

A clean burn is like breathing fully in and fully out.

As an example, do this exercise with me.

Just stop for a moment and take a deep breath in and out, paying attention to the physical sensations of breathing deeply. Notice that when you take a full, deep breath there is a sense of completion, satisfaction at the end of the breath. That’s why sighing feels so good. We’re taking accumulated tensions and fully releasing them in a deep sigh.

Again, notice the sensations of a fully released breath in your body.

Okay, now try this. Take a breath in, but don’t breathe out completely. Hold your breath in near the end, and notice what you feel in your body. Repeat breathing in, but only partially breathing out a couple more times.

That’s not goooood.

After just a few breaths like that you want to finish the breath completely, because it’s just too uncomfortable staying in the incompletion of your breath.

Okay! Finish your breath, and again notice what that completion feels like in your body.

When we experience any kind of trauma, be it small, daily assaults from the world or big, dramatic ones like a health crisis, death in the family, or some major shock to our system, we tend to hold on and stop breathing. Energetically, emotionally we can’t or don’t want to feel all the horrible feelings coming up, so we break the circuit of a full, releasing breath and that holding pattern stays in our bodies as an active cellular memory. We then compartmentalize the trauma into our subconscious mind, but it doesn’t go away, and it remains as that “splinter in our mind.”

Then change becomes something we avoid like the plague because our experiences of change are predominantly remembered as traumatic. I was never taught how to release traumatic events when I was growing up, were you?

I tried to do that through reason, logic, or other left brain rational processes like “talking about it.” I tried to release the trauma emotionally through expressing my feelings, or going through a catharsis. That just temporarily relieved the emotional pressures for awhile, and then I was right back in “SSDD” again. And you can fogettaboutit trying to stop the body expressions of tension, pain, or health issues, through a physical only approach of drugs, herbs, diet, exercise, etc.

I found you have to have all aspects of your Being present and working simultaneously; the mind, emotions, physical sensations, along with what I call Presence, or the Witness, the Divine, Unconditional Self that is the real You. When all of these aspects are working together consciously then you can consistently complete traumatic experiences in a gentle and empowering way.

Once you learn The Body Transcendent process you will be able to consistently release and complete, with grace, ease, and confidence, any uncompleted experiences in your life as directly and effectively as taking in a deep breath and letting it go.

Now that’s consistent results for me!

It could be for you.

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Keep Awakening,

Jim Granger,
Founder of The Body Transcendent

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{ 10 comments }

1 Chris May 15, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Very interesting. I often wonder why consistency is such a challenge. I would love to hear more about “cellular memory.” Thanks for sharing.

2 Sue McKnight May 17, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Consistency IS a challenge and I hadn’t thought of the connection in this way to ‘cellular memory’, but it makes sense now. The memory of all of our experiences is stored in our bodies on a cellular level. The most illustrating example of this that I can think of is the way a scent can cause our mind to be completely flooded with a memory of a place, time, experience. The physical sensation is directly connected to the experience in some way. Jim can speak to this more clearly, but the idea that unacknowledged ‘cellular memories’ are what is hampering consistency in my life I can now see as “life interruptus” or “purpose interruptus”. Something that keeps steering us off our Path. Thank you for your comment.

3 Mindy May 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm

AWESOME! Really great job!!!!! Clear, concise and to the point!!!!

Mindy

4 Pravin May 15, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Lookin good (naturally) and readin real smooth Jim. Onward & Upward,

Pravin J. Philip
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5 evalee May 16, 2009 at 12:40 am

Jim, Im impressed!

6 Sue McKnight May 17, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Jim,

Well said! You are speaking your Truth ever more clearly.
Thanks

7 Amy Heinselman June 3, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Hi Jim, Amazing! I read your post 3 times because I didn’t want to miss anything. I really enjoy your work. I consider myself a fairly present person however I am always seeking personal growth and open to explore new concepts. I am very much a “why” person. Always needing to overanalyze everything. Why does this happen? Why do you feel/think that way? I say. So I pose this to you. While I am ever so drawn to your beliefs and teachings, I still question it. Maybe look at it sideways. If it looks to be brown with four legs and nays then it must be a horse :) Yes? Somehow what you say brings up fear for me. Why? Don’t know. As if my body wants to reject it but yet I can’t wait to come back and hear more. Maybe it’s more about faith and learning to accept ideas/thoughts that may not seem traditional instead of trying to dissect them three ways to sunday ,poke and prode them to see if they are real. I never considered myself to be black or white but nowadays I’m finding the need to have things so crystal clear. I think also once you open yourself up to new ideas and digest them within your own body the new ideas want to take over the dis ease within you almost like your fighting off a terrible cold. Then all hell breaks loose. I am sure I need your download and want to be on your list of awakened. Being assleep behind the wheel on the road to life is no fun. Thank you for all you bring to our lives. -Amy

8 Jim Granger June 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Amy – Yowza! Great to hear from you and you said a lot in your comment, and I’ll see what I can address in this reply.

I get what you mean about overanalyzing. I was prone to that a lot before I learned how to look at my life through my body sensations. That brought my mind in sync with my emotions, beliefs, and the Self, or Presence. Then I could use all of these aspects together in what people usually call your “intuition.” I like to call if my “Truthsense” and it brings me clarity through direct experience of what is truly going on instead of just a rational or logical explanation.

This also enables you to “digest” what is coming through to be healed, or transformed from a “diseased” state into something new and more appropriate to who you are now without “all hell breaking loose” as you said.

To me, fear is generally the status quo sense of yourself that feels threatened by anything different showing up. You’re attraction to coming back and wanting to read more is You (the Self) knowing there is something here for you that is relevant to your life right now.

I’d love to share with you the Homo Spiritus Template Amy and go further with you if you feel so inclined. Feel free to comment to my reply here on the site, or email me at: jim@thebodytranscendent.com

9 Livia Nardi June 4, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Hi Jim,
I totally get what you are saying!! You have helped the pains, aches and migraines go away through just talking. I am starting to remember who I really am…and loving it!!! Thanks Dr. Jim and I am grateful for your friendship….Liv

10 Peggy June 13, 2009 at 8:21 am

wow Jim –
I love the breathing example! It is amazing when we pay attention to what our body is feeling – what we sense.
It still baffles me this whole process – but I am enlightened and truely amazed!
Nice job on the articles.. can’t wait for our next session..

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