Most significant issue we face

 

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The most significant issue we will face in reviewing our past, working to become our truth and/or access the depth and breadth of our creativity is body memories. In understanding the relationship between energy and consciousness, it is a rather obvious conclusion our body will hold memories as does the mind.

Most are familiar with mental habits and memories. Some mental memories and habits are the result of intentional conditioning and others are the result of simply doing something a particular way repeatedly. Body habits and muscle memories are similar and similarly developed but tend to be a little bit more subtle. They are subtle in that we will not necessarily have a conscious awareness of them when they surface for we tend to remember them through feeling and what we feel in a given situation.

Body memories tend to shift the feelings we have in a given moment. Our mind interprets what we feel as a result of what mind is aware of happening. More often than not, mind tends to associate the feelings the body has with what is happening externally. When mind does this it never becomes aware of the body memories. That, in turn, allows all that mind is thinking to become captured by the past even when mind thinks it is free to create something new.

Freedom is a feeling. True freedom is to be like the wind, coming with nothing (no attachments) and leaving with nothing (no attachments). Unless we are in that feeling of freedom when we are acting to create something new, we will only be recreating the past in a new way. This is why the creative state of play of becoming like the spontaneous and innocent play of very young child freely discovering and exploring itself and its world is so important.

Athletes, dancers, musicians, and the like are aware it may take years of practice to learn to perform certain types and kinds of body movements as an instinctive response. They train the body and cause it to form itself to respond in a certain way by the focus of their attention and awareness and the actions they take in response to that focus. The muscles themselves may take a physical shape and particular form to be able to do those movements. What needs to be understood when the athletes, dancers, or musicians stop performing, the ability within the muscles is not lost. They can be readily regained with a little practice.

What needs to be understood about expressing our truth is that from the earliest age we are taught to live other than our truth. It is the nature of the experience to be a human being to be conditioned to live other than our truth. We deny our truth for years and in doing so our body developed muscles and memories which support living other than our truth. Then, later in life as we work to access and live our truth, or optimize our creative power we are faced with the continual resurfacing of the habits of the past arise through our muscle memories.

The body memories which surface feelings of pain also frequently calls forth the response patterns we may have developed to protect ourselves from the pain. Collectively, these painful body memories and their associated response patterns can appear to take on a life of there own. What they do, many have referred to them as a “pain body” that lies within our being.

In the same way it may take years to form the muscles memories to do a certain athletic or dance task, it may take years to reprogram the muscles of our bodies to respond different. In particular, it is to train the body to respond to living our truth rather than denying it. Additionally, these memories are layered. We may open ourselves to feeling and do tremendous works to address the pains and not so pleasant experiences of the past. Then, when we finally feel free, another ghost from the past surfaces to haunt us from a deeper layer within our being.

It needs to be remembered accessing the depth and breadth of our creativity is to return to the state of spontaneous and innocent child like play of discovery and exploration. The last time most of us experienced such a state was as a child about the age of one or two before mind enters the picture with it judgements, preferences, and conditioning. Consequently, attempting to access our unlimited creativity, takes up back through all the ways we have learned to use our body to deny our truth rather than live our truth.

Accessing and releasing our unlimited creativity is not something which can be done in a workshop, a counseling session and the like. It will take time and an intense conscious focus as strong a focus as used by any musician, dancer or athlete not unlike learning an instrument, learning to dance or learning a movement for an athletic event.

How long does it take? It depends. How long the journey can take lies on a spectrum between two extremes - a fast way and a slow way. The comparison between the fast way and the slow way is much like the difference between making nuclear fuel in a reactor and reprocessing the fuel versus using the much slower gaseous diffusion process. But unlike making nuclear fuel, there is a gradation in between the extremes.

Work done through the mind and having the mind retain control will take years. It can be done but it is a slow process for what we seek to change is not of the mind. Most of the time will be spend educating the mind and making it safe for mind to step aside and to step out of mind. If we are willing to step out of mind and let go to use the body, the body wisdom, how the body feels, and what is available to the body, it can be done surprisingly quickly. How quick? As short as a weekend under the correct established conditions but it does take a little time to establish those correct conditions. However, one will need to have a deep passion and/or an understanding of what is found to hold onto what is found until the body memories are sufficiently strong to hold our truth. Otherwise, the memories of the past will return and pull us back towards where we started.

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