I feel drawn to sharing my suggestion for today on my free event https://www.facebook.com/events/658111517664905/permalink/668824339926956/
We are being called to the vital task of honoring our own emotions. I was at the doctor yesterday and she told me how so many patients want drugs to mask the symptoms of dis-ease arising as the frequency of the planets, as measured by the Schumann resonance (explained in a post on my feed,) pushes our raw emotions to surface, making this a required course rather then an elective. Unlike previous generations, we do not have the choice to ignore our emotions, they will make themselves known in increasingly powerful ways. Will you accept the invitation?
Today’s suggestion is about something Cellular Memory Release (CMR) calls Pain-Body Release. Eckhart Tolle coined the name pin-body. We ll know what it is. The breath tightens, shoulders may hunch, belly feel nauseous, heart beat erratically. these are some possible signs you are caught in the pain-body. What to do? Dive into it. I find in my work with clients and with myself, this is what is initially often fiercely resisted. We have been taught as a culture to avoid pain, medicate it, drink, smoke, drug, sex, shop it away. So to turn and kiss the lion, simple but not easy.
Yet this is the only way to get free. Teacher after teacher tells us so. My direct experience tells me so. I was licensed as a therapist while barely understanding while barely grasping the awareness of the vital role of embodied emotions. Only after discovering CMR did I gain freedom from crippling anxiety. How? By feeling what you are feeling IN THE BODY. As much as possible, stay out of the story. Just feel what is arising in the moment. This can be compared to weight training. Initially the muscles are weak and only a little weight, a few receptions but over time strength increases. The same with emotions. Perhaps initially, especially without a support or witness, you may only be able to sustain a few moments yet by making it a practice, by feeling the volcano of emotions when they erupt, in time, the ability to hold in presence with our own experience straightens. Over time inner freedom and spaciousness open up and what used to stir up a tornado now does not create the slightest stir. So for today, whatever arises, feel what is emerging in the sacred field of your own skin. with tender care, witness it with the loving attention of a doting parent. Hold with it even if it is only for a few seconds. Honor and cherish your own hallowed experience. This is the nectar that frees us from eons of suffering.
THese beautiful words from Matt Licata
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We are wired as little ones to do whatever it takes to maintain the tie to our caregivers, including disconnecting from specific feelings, emotions, and ways of being that threaten the attachment bond. This isn’t because we were neurotic, pathological, not ‘spiritual’ enough, caught in a ‘low vibration,’ or victim of some sort of ‘personality disorder.’ Rather, it was an act of breathtaking creativity, designed to prevent breakdown and overwhelming dysregulation in tender nervous systems and ripening little hearts.
Rather than shame ourselves for our protective strategies, we might see them as a certain kind of grace, descending upon us to keep us here, hearts beating, and open to life in a star where love is alive. Instead of spinning off into blame and rage, we could honor the activity of even early disembodiment as the reflection of a cosmic sort of intelligence. The path will appear in infinite forms, including in ways the mind will never understand. But the body knows. The heart knows.
From the perspective of wholeness, there is no ‘wound’ from the past that must first be healed in order for you to fully show up here. In one miracle instant you can end the dream of postponement. In each radiant here and now moment, the abandoned material is on vivid display around you, appearing as your feelings, your emotions, the anxiety in your belly, as your lovers, your children, even as a raging winter sunset above you. It will never give up. It will search for you forever, yearning for just one moment of your time, your holding, and your warm embrace. It is surging out of the relational matrix seeking metabolization and completion within you.
It is the most radical act of fierce embodied care to send warmth, awareness, and holding into the core of unmet rage, shame, despair, and heartbreak – and to cut the momentum of abandonment and the developmental need to fight or flee. It is a tremendous act of kindness to infuse presence into the center of the raw sensations as they ripple through your torso, arising as expressions of sacred, revelatory data.
No matter how things are going for you, you can start right where you are, for very short periods of time. Surround and contain the intensity, as it surges for integration. Even for one second. Two seconds. And then three seconds. Push yourself a little, with fiery, committed self-love, but not so much that you go into overwhelm. Find a friend, a therapist, a teacher, a lover, a co-worker, a tree, a deer, an owl, an ocean, a moon, a star to bear witness with you.
It will take everything you have to re-establish the pathways of aliveness, eventually coming to see that they have been on fire inside you all along. You must decide if it is worth the burning, the uncertainty of the unknown, and the non-negotiable requirement to stay embodied to your vulnerability along the way. I have been honored to accompany many courageous men and women who have decided that it was. And for that I am grateful. Please know that your work is never for yourself alone. Matt Licata