Tracking Body Sensations to Achieve Authentic Adulthood

When the body is fully open, we can trust our own feelings and actions; they anchor us in an inner home.

-Marion Woodman

How often do you really feel comfortable in your own skin?  Are you usually relaxed and “at home” in your body, or do headaches, knots in your stomach or other unpleasant sensations plague you throughout the day?

If we think of our bodies as out-picturings of our subconscious, these unpleasant physical sensations are usually the result of traumatic life experiences we never processed and resolved.  If these painful events remain unresolved they become chronic conditions.  If they persist long enough, our bodies will eventually express them in the form of “dis-ease” in one manner or another.

As we experience more of these unpleasant incidents without resolution, our bodies gradually become “persona non grata” to our Presence.  We develop ways to “live inside our heads” or outside our bodies in a dissociated state.

And then we wonder why our lives have become difficult and unrewarding.  More and more, we live in a state Thoreau described as “quiet desperation”.  We worry and stress when things don’t work out as we hoped or planned.

So what to do?  How can you complete these unprocessed feelings and experiences?  How can you change the beliefs and self image you created to cope with your unresolved childhood trauma?  How can you make a “home” in your body, so you can live a life of ease, openness, joy and love as an Authentic Adult?

A key component of The Body Transcendent work is learning to develop the habit of paying attention to your body sensations from a place of Unconditional Awareness. This will help you begin the process of reclaiming your rightful home in your body as an Authentic Adult, and will accomplish the following results:

• You will interrupt the “circuit of complaint”.  This inner dialogue of negative thoughts and feelings whirring away in your “monkey mind” will be stilled as you learn to pay attention, in real time, to what is going in your body.
• Your mind can begin to tap into a rich source of feelings, life energy, and wisdom because these body sensations are the royal road to your subconscious and super-conscious “Unified Field of Intelligence.”
• You get real-time feedback about the physical cost of your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings and a powerful reference point for making new choices and behaviors from this moment forward.

When you truly accomplish these transformational conversations, you will find yourself feeling more and more relaxed, relieved, calm, confident, and clear. Your intuition and insight will begin to operate easily and spontaneously.  Instead of trying to control, and figure things out in your head, solutions to seemingly insoluble “problems” will begin to pop into your Awareness.

When you “upgrade the software” that has been maintaining your life in survival mode with a program that supports thriving through life, you reclaim your rightful ownership of your home here in your physical body with a consciousness that supports what you truly want for yourself – NOW!

AN EXERCISE: DECONSTRUCTING “STINKIN’ THINKIN’”

New findings from brain state research indicate that permanent life changes require a Theta state of consciousness.  It is in this state where you can talk directly to your subconscious/super-conscious Unified Field of Intelligence. When you tune into your body with Unconditional Awareness, no matter what it feels like in the moment, you are automatically operating from a Theta state, where your “word becomes flesh”, and you can literally rewrite your internal reality.

The following exercise is the beginning step to becoming an Authentic Adult. This process differs from repeating “positive thoughts”, or affirmations, which is often the equivalent of putting on a clean shirt over a dirty body.

Think of an upsetting experience you had with someone.  Perhaps you thought, “He’s an idiot (or worse)!  Why do I listen to him anyway?  Why do I need him in my life?  I hate him!”

Now check in and see where these angry thoughts show up as a body sensation(s).  Where do you feel this in your body?  Do you enjoy this feeling?  (I doubt you will when you really take notice of what this “stinkin’ thinkin’” costs your body.)

You can deconstruct these negative thoughts by embracing what is happening without judgment. This is Unconditional Acceptance. Remember, what you “resist persists.”  When you stop resisting, the emotional charge that powers these thoughts is freed to run its course and start moving to completion.

Try one or all following statements to help you maintain the state of Unconditional Awareness. Pay attention to what happens in your body as you say them:

• It’s okay for me to feel this (sadness, fear, anger, etc.) in my body right now.
• I don’t need to fix anything right now. I can just be with what is happening in my body.
• I’m safe feeling this fear right now. I don’t have to do anything but notice where this is happening in my body.

You’ll notice that your body starts to relax and calm down from the original agitated state. This is what it means to truly “let go.”  It happens naturally when you are fully present in your body as sensations come up in response to your “stinkin’ thinkin’.” Now you’re commanding a new neural pattern to arise and begin to replace the old one. (There is an axiom in neurobiology – “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”)  You can repeat this process whenever your thoughts turn negative and it will preclude the negativity from continuing to be reinforced in your cellular memory, which has become “hard-wired” from repeated reactions of this kind.

Keep noticing what happens when you “stop the world” inside your head and begin to observe your body sensations with Unconditional Awareness. You will continue to open more space for new possibilities and insights to enter your inner dialog.  Then you can consciously steward this “conversation” in the direction you most want to go – right now!

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Coming Home Into Your Body

In this post I will address some of the insights I’ve had along the way about how the “landscape” of Authentic Adulthood is starting to look, taste, and feel from within my own skin.

In Parts I and II, I laid out the developmental stages we go through as human beings.  The prefrontal lobes of the human brain are supposed to kick in between ages 15 and 21 to propel us into full maturity as adults – beyond anything experienced in the previous stages. Unfortunately, many of us received information that interfered with this process.  Growing into a fully mature adult didn’t happen for us.

One amazing synchronicity and powerful confirmation for me is that my initial vision of Homo Spiritus matches what I am discovering an Authentic, Integrated, and fully Embodied Adult is all about! What I originally intuited as the next step in human evolution, is what each of us would have naturally grown into as adults, had we finished each stage of human development without “interference.”

Authentic Adulthood involves a Human Being Divinely Enlightened by natural design – or Homo Spiritus!

Another significant insight involves the traditional role of the spiritual “seeker”. Someone who is feeling inner discontent for something “more”, and is caught up in the quest to get rid of, dissolve, transcend, integrate, etc. their “ego,” is actually acting from an unconscious need to complete these unfinished stages of development.

Had we had cultural models and been shown or taught about this inborn capacity, this design for metamorphosis/transcendence, we would have been able to grow naturally through the “ego’s” development and enter into the natural Enlightenment of Authentic Adulthood.

As Jed McKenna succinctly describes in his book “Spiritual Warfare:”

“Human Childhood is the ego-bound state. It is, in human children, a healthy and natural state. In human adults, however, it’s a hideous affliction…In fact, we should be discarding these juvenile disguises in our early teens and embarking on life journeys of such superiority that, by contrast, the ego-bound life is no life at all.” (pg.28)…”The butterfly stage of development is called imago; adulthood. That’s what we are meant to be, imago. If we lived in a society of imagos we would be well prepared for metamorphosis; it would occur when it’s supposed to and be easier by magnitudes. Not easy, but not cataclysmic either.” (pg. 58)

Another “symptom” of Authentic Adulthood I’ve been experiencing is feeling more and more that I am “growed up.” For many years, as I discovered the history of my own Arrested Development, I often felt like I was looking through the eyes of a child, or an adolescent, depending on when each particular trauma I was working through had occurred in my life.

“Trying” to be an Adult when I still felt waaaay younger inside, was always accompanied by fear  - I was going to mess something up; I would not succeed; I couldn’t relate to what was required of me as an Adult.  My heart wasn’t in it and I had difficulty finding the passion to emotionally and willingly engage in my life/career/relationships, etc.

This frame of reference has disappeared.  For the first time in my life I feel free and clear of these childhood “eyes”.  The old adage – being a “child of God” has been replaced by being an “Adult of God.”

Stepping into this stage of development – being an “Adult of God” – has transformed the way I interact with the “Universe” to manifest my life.  Before this I had studied and practiced the usual litany of “Law of Attraction” approaches with infuriatingly inconsistent results. The primary feeling was a sense of “lack” that could be fulfilled in the form of more income, etc., by following the principles and practices. You know the drill. The infuriating part for me was the inconsistency of it all.  When I put a lot of energy into “manifesting” something, it would often NOT happen; and then there were the times when an idle thought or intent would easily and effortlessly just “show up”. That drove me crazy!

What I finally noticed was, that when I was coming from the “Adult me,” there was a sense of easy flow and “effortless effort”, just naturally happening as my life seamlessly unfolded before me. From the “Arrested Development me,” it always stemmed from some sort of lack and a sense of incompleteness, “petitioning” the Universe/Spirit to bring to me what I thought I wanted.

Again Jed McKenna captures this well from “Spiritual Warfare” pg. 17:

“There are plenty of books about how to manifest our desires from within the segregated state of Human Childhood; to use prayer or wishcraft or affirmations or laws of attraction to get a better house, a faster car, the perfect mate and so on. What we’ll be discussing in this book is making the transition to the integrated state of Human Adulthood and developing within it, so that prayer, wishcraft, affirmations, and laws of attraction become superfluous, the way cheating becomes superfluous when you know the answers.”

My present understanding of how one lives as an Authentic Adult involves conscious participation with the unfolding of life through intent/inspiration, then total surrender to the process without resistance or judgment of how, when, or where the outcome will manifest.  This entails total trust that what does happen is always for the best no matter what.

Thoreau captured this approach well:

“It is a gift to be able to paint a particular picture or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.  To affect the quality of the day–that is the highest of the arts.”

May you live a completed path!

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Will the Real Adult Please Stand Up? Part III

What follows is a description of the “fourfold brain” and the consequences resulting from its “Arrested Development.”

Generally speaking our brain is composed of three main parts, the hindbrain or reptilian brain, the midbrain, or limbic/old mammalian brain, and the neocortex/new mammalian brain. Developmentally, the prefrontal lobes are the newest addition to the neocortex, making up the “fourfold brain.”

The reptilian brain, the oldest, most basic and primal part of our human functioning and deals with habits, learned skills, rituals, survival strategies, and reflexive or reactive behaviors. Our tendencies for being territorial, competitive, fear based survival – fight or flight, is the domain of this part of the brain. Its basic approach is, “Is it something to eat, mate with, or be eaten by?”(1)

The Limbic or old mammalian brain contains our inherent desire to nurture our young, our senses of smell and hearing, the foundations for all relationships, and the cognizance of the world as somehow “other.” It helps to”…give us awareness of an interior, subjective world and our feelings concerning that outer world and our relationship to it.” (2)

The Neocortex/new mammalian brain the wrinkled area you see in pictures, occupies the largest portion (five times the skull space of the other two combined). The prefrontal lobes are located in the foremost part of the neocortex. It introduces language and thinking, abstract thinking, intuition, “objectivity,” awareness of past, present, and future, and thus the ability to imagine “What if?,” creative imagination, the drive for novelty, and so on.

Here’s how Pearce describes the body’s method of maturation in “The Biology of Transcendence”:

“Nature’s development is itself threefold. First, each new neural structure is built on the foundation of neural structures that have come before it. Second, as each new brain develops, it incorporates into its own functions the more primitive foundations upon which it is built and changes the nature of that foundation into one that is compatible with the new system. And third, the newly integrated system serves, in turn, as a foundation for higher evolutionary developments, which is transcendence in action.” (3)

As long as the stages of development of all four brains proceed on schedule and are not interfered with, then the prefrontal lobes oversee the integration process that offers “…open-ended potential, an ability to rise and go beyond all constraint or limitation.” (4) However, the ability of the prefrontal lobes to offer this transcendent capacity is dependent upon the proper development of its foundation, the reptilian and limbic brains.

For instance one, of the crucial elements in both the toddler and in the mid adolescent stages of development is the emotional nurturing of the mother or primary caregiver. It’s no longer a question of “nature or nurture” but that both are an integral part of human development. And it’s not just that the emotional nurturing helps to develop proper “emotional intelligence” but that it actually shapes the kind of child that is born.

“…If a pregnant animal is subjected to a hostile, competitive, anxiety producing environment, she will give birth to an infant with an enlarged hindbrain, an enlarged body and musculature, and a reduced forebrain. The opposite is equally true. If the mother is in a secure harmonious, stress free, nurturing environment during gestation, she will produce an infant with an enlarged forebrain, reduced hindbrain, and a smaller body.” (5)

So, at any time, we are designed to move towards growth and transcendence of what has come before, or if threatened, to direct our resources to defend ourselves. The body can’t do both at the same time, so our environment, both from outside sources and our self generated internal environment, determine which direction we’re going.

When subjected to a threat of any kind, whether real or a perceived, our brain shifts to the more reactive hindbrain “fight or flight” responses. If these threats become more frequent, then the pathways for this kind of survival responses become “grooved” in the neural net. According to Neuroscientist Carla Shatz: “neurons that fire together wire together”) and violence becomes more and more the “normal” way of life.

For me, “violence” includes not only physical harm, but emotional abuse and judgments, toward ourselves or others. If you have “monkey mind” responses full of recriminations, worries, and judgments against yourself going on inside your head, these are acts of violence toward you, and your body is responding in kind. As William Blake put it oh so bluntly,

“All evil consists of self restraint or restraint of others.

All evil acts are murderous.”

Being subjected to the cultural violence of one kind or another through all the developmental stages, our brain (and the rest of our body) is constantly shifting from growth to defense. It’s no wonder then that so very few, in Western culture at least, have ever succeeded in making the developmental jump in consciousness to full Adulthood.

It’s like punching tiny holes in a hose. Each time a trauma occurs, another hole appears, the water pressure drops as it leaks out the holes. If there are enough holes, eventually the amount of water coming out the nozzle is hardly anything at all.

In my own case, I remember feeling like my life came to a grinding halt around the age of 14 or 15. I could feel it in a fuzzy sort of way. I certainly wasn’t very much in touch with my “emotional intelligence”, living mostly in my head at that time.  I had this sense that the future wasn’t looking very golden, exciting, and certainly not at all transcendent! Overall I felt lost about the direction of my life, and what “growing up” was going to be.

I certainly wasn’t a “happy camper” that’s for sure. I was definitely in “Arrested Development” but didn’t even know it. Looking back there was no way I could have ever known because everyone else around me was also pretty much in the same boat. No one had reached true Adulthood to model or show me what that was supposed to be like.

Fortunately, all is not lost! It is possible to “rewrite the story” and complete these stages of development. One of my blogs, “Completing the Circuit of Experience” covers the basic principles of how I learned to do this.

Then in Part III, I will be sharing parts of my own “hero’s journey” of what’s it been like for me as I have been growing up into an Integrated Adult.

May you live a completed path!

“The Biology of Transcendence” by Joseph Chilton Pearce

1.      pg. 25

2.      pg. 26

3.      pg. 28

4.      pg. 23

5.      pg. 115

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Will the real Adult please stand up? Part II

The main function of the prefrontal lobes is to integrate all the other brain regions that develop in a specific sequence over the years of human maturation. What is important here is that though this part of the brain is involved in all stages of development, it doesn’t start to fully develop until around age of 15 and continues until around age 21.

This time between 15 and 21 is supposed to be the most dramatic growth spurt in becoming an adult that even surpasses in scope and affect the developmental stages we go through from birth up to mid-adolescence. Everything in the developmental process points to this being the most transcendent period in our lives as we come into full maturation as an Adult.

As Pearce described it, “…Logically we could expect that on the completion and maturation of nature’s latest, largest, and highest brain at age twenty-one, we would possess capacities more dramatically different from and more powerful than anything previously experienced… In fact, the development of these new prefrontal additions should ideally result in a mind that is so remarkably different from the one we operated with before that it would present to us in full the biological possibility of transcendence.”(Emphasis added) “The Biology of Transcendence,” pg. 51

But, as the Apollo 13 mission said,  “Houston, we have a problem.”  It turns out that for most of us on this planet we didn’t make it through this  most crucial stage.  As Pearce sadly notes, “… in fact, nothing much happens at all.”

We “flatline” developmentally and pretty much stay in “Arrested Development” for the rest of our lives, unless we undertake a major “hero’s journey” to finish this stage of development. Take a look around, (including a good, honest look at yourself), and you’ll see that the majority of “Adults”, though “grown up” physically, are still operating out of unresolved childhood and adolescent traumas and their corresponding limited belief systems.  We have not put away our “childish things.”

How is it working for you being an “Adult” right now? Here’s a little “test”.

• What’s your body response to your image of yourself as an Adult? Do you  feel magnificent, pretty good, so-so, or overall, is being an Adult  not all that it was cracked up to be?

• How often have you said, or heard someone else say to you in the heat of an argument, “Why don’t you just grow up?”

• Was, or is,  Peter Pan  one of your favorite characters? Is “I’ll never grow up, I don’t want to go to school” one of your favorite mantras?

• As a man, do you often hear the adage “Boys will be boys” and really relate to that personally? Is the term “Arrested Development” secretly a badge of honor for you?

• As a woman, are you still complaining to your girlfriends about men, still looking for “Daddy” to recognize you in all the men you meet?

• Do you still throw “temper tantrums” at work or in your relationships?

• Do you take your life very personally?

• Are you rather reactive in your responses to life situations?

• Are you easily “triggered” and live a life mostly of complaints?

• Do you wish that someone or something whether that be a person, a guru,  ET’s, the government, food, drugs, or sex, would come along and take care of you,  rescue you, or recognize you?

• Spiritually, do you see yourself and others as a “child of God” and find solace in this description? Do you feel “separated” from God and consider yourself a seeker, looking for Oneness, or Enlightenment from Mother/Father God?

Any of these sound familiar? Maybe a little toooo familiar?

If you see a good chunk of yourself in this “test”, then congratulations! You’ve made the grade of “Mugglehood,” which is just my way of saying you’ve not finished your birthright of natural maturation. You’re truly in “Arrested Development” and really don’t know what it is to be an Awakened, Integrated, Actualized, Embodied Human Being – which is what we would be had we naturally matured in to what all of us are meant to be.

In Part II I will go more into these stages of development, how they have been interfered with, and the consequences of this interference. In Part III I will share some of my own journey into Adulthood and what Life is starting to look like from this perspective.

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Will the real Adult please stand up? Part I

As I mentioned at the end of Part II that it isn’t enough to just do affirmations, diet changes, exercises, etc. though these will indeed transform your life regarding slowing down or even reversing aging.

What I want to focus on in Part III is what still needs to be addressed to frame out the whole picture here, and that is the metaprogramming level of how we are creating and manifesting our lives here. I also call this our “Soul Agreements.”

We’re not just living in this 3D “world”. To me this is the last stage of multidimensional projections that we agree to from the nonphysical states of Being all the way into the “physical.” As I described in Part II, even the term “physical” is not what it appears to be from our normal 5 senses. There really isn’t any “matter” (stuff that abides) but ever changing patterns that are perpetuated by our Soul Agreements to be this way.

Though I said that the subconscious mind is where the patterns are held and then projected out as our body, that was only partially true. That’s true for the body matrix, but the subconscious mind is also a projection of a much deeper pattern of Consciousness that creates/manifests on a much larger scale.

We come into this lifetime with a plan for what we want to experience. The metaphor of a movie being like a lifetime is very apt here. There is a whole lot of planning going on behind the scenes to make a movie. The script is written before the shooting of the scenes, so it is for each of us before our lifetime. This script is composed of your Soul Agreements with all of the other beings that will play their part in your life, like actors in the movie.

No matter how your life looks to you or others while you’re embodied, much like a movie, every experience you have has a purpose as part of the overall “plot” of your life. When you start the process of Awakening in a lifetime, you eventually start to remember your Soul Agreements.

This is what happened to me. As I progressed through my “script” by uncovering my subconscious beliefs through The Body Transcendent process I started to remember my role as the scriptwriter. When I looked at my life through these eyes at anything that had happened to me, particularly the traumatic events, they were bathed in the unconditional love of perfect and wise choices on my part.  At the Soul level that is the only kind of choices we can make because that is our nature.

Once you truly grok (to know) that, then any and all judgments around your experience, and any traumas are easily released in this perfection of choice. You know they were the right experiences for you to fulfill your Soul Agreements.

Sweet, huh?

So whatever agreements you have made around your life span here they are determined from this level of Consciousness and are therefore subject to a “rewrite” if You so choose it to be. It doesn’t really matter how long or short a lifetime you choose. That’s not the point here. Only that this is the level where Your Word is Law and therefore within your power to do with it as You Will.

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“Busting Loose From Aging” Part III

So when I talk to people about this idea the question I’m most often asked  is, “Then why is my body aging if it’s replacing itself every 3 years?” By asking myself that very same question over many years, here’s one of the fundamental ideas behind my present understanding about why our bodies age.

We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.

Your body is not a thing (stuff) but an outpicturing (pattern/matrix) of your subconscious mind. The physical “stuff” of cells, tissues, organs, and the like take their form from the nonphysical matrix/subconscious mind. As an example, the magnetic field of a magnet is invisible, but when you place a piece of paper over the magnet and sprinkle it with iron filings, the filings follow the pattern of the magnetic field.

Such is the case with your body cells. They follow their instructions on how to operate through the DNA and the cell membrane’s interaction with the body’s internal environment. The DNA are like “antennas” that vibrate to the nonphysical instructions of the Informational Field of the subconscious mind. They are information “transducers” who’s instructional codes to the cells are turned on and off from what they are told from the Field/subconscious mind.

The Heart Math Institute did some seminal work in this area and showed that all emotions and thoughts can be measured as vibrational frequencies. Frequencies are measured as cycles/second, such as in “60 cycles/second.” They found that the higher the frequency of the emotion, the more DNA codes it turned on. The lower the frequency, the less codes are turned on.  Fear shows up as a low frequency and thus activates very few DNA codes. Unconditional love is a very high frequency and thus it activates the highest number of DNA codes in a cell.

Thus the cell’s health and ability to replicate itself properly depends on whether or not the cell is receiving the right quantity of  “information” from the DNA. When cells are properly nourished and their waste products removed, it has been demonstrated in laboratories that the cells can live indefinitely. They never grow old and die!

If your body cells are being fed a steady diet of  fear, anger, depression, or other various forms of “stinkin’ thinkin’” long enough, then this “frequency” malnourishment and toxic build up of waste products (from impeded circulation and lymphatic drainage) impair their repair processes and healthy replication.  Taken as a whole the body thus ages, eventually wears out, and “dies.”

This is a simplified explanation of course. But the principles behind the aging process as I’ve stated here I believe are sound:

High vibrational thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviors bathe the body with life supportive information/nourishment that translates into vibrant health and vitality for as long as you choose to live this way.

Low vibrational thoughts, feelings, etc. bathe the body with life defeating information/malnourishment and you know where your body will end up eventually if you choose to live this way.

Simple, yes.

Easy to do? I don’t think so!

There’s more to Busting Loose From Aging than just thinking “good thoughts,” doing affirmations, eating the “right” diet, exercise, taking anti aging supplements, etc.

I’ll cover that in Part III.

Care to guess what that will be about?

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Busting Loose from Aging – Part II

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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Completing the Circuit of Experience