Sure the subconscious mind may hold all the answers, but how do we
get to them? How do we begin healing emotions when we don't know what
they are, or how they got there?
I'll often get a new client that comes to me and states, "I'm just so sad and depressed all the time and I don't know why."
"The real answers are always, and only, found within the Subconscious Mind."
My
normal response is usually something like, "Great, that means you're
working perfectly! You're not supposed to know why. If you knew why
that would be way too much information. Then you'd be sad and depressed
all the time, and with good reasons. But now we can get to work on
releasing those emotions."
Now this may seem a bit shocking at
first, but to the person that's had countless conventional therapist
try to find reasons for her depression, or well-meaning friends that
try to get her to "just be happy", this approach offers hope.
So why is it that we subconsciously put up all of these blocks and barriers to memories.
Just Don't Think About It?
The
real problem is that it's just too scary to look at core issues and
problems because of all the emotions associated to the events. The
walls and barriers are there to keep us from remembering the past hurts
and traumas.
After all, it won't hurt if you don't think about
it. And if there are subconscious walls and barriers preventing the
"thinking about it" we're all good.
But unfortunately just
because we're not thinking about it doesn't mean that the fear, pain or
anxiety just goes away. It's still there having underlying effects in
our life today if the emotion hasn't been released.
Hidden Emotions, But Not Gone
The
subconscious mind puts up those barriers to allow the conscious mind to
function. But those mental barriers only affect the Thinking Mind, not
the Energy Body. From an "energy" perspective, the trauma is still in
the Energy Body.
So the adult woman that was molested decades
ago still finds herself becoming anxious during physical intimacy with
men. She may have no conscious memory of being molested by Uncle Bob as
a child. And at the time it may not have even been a very traumatic
experience. But she finds that the feelings of shame, guilt and a host
of other similar feelings begin to fester and grow within her.
This
unfortunately is a common experience among many women. The key to
healing emotions is to Release them. But to release them we first need
to find them.
Getting to the Root Cause
When
I'm working with someone like this it isn't important to remember the
traumatic event so much as to release the underlying emotions of the
event. Because I know that the Energy of the emotion exists, I can
target the emotion by simply asking her to imagine herself in an
intimate setting with a man. This is using the Conscious Mind to assess
the Energy of the emotion.
As she begins to experience the
feelings of anxiety I'll invite her to allow herself to experience the
feelings of the anxiety. This will always bring up similar, or
"resonating emotions", and other memories associated to those feelings.
As each of the memories and emotions come up, we gently release them
and allow more to come up.
This is a very effective method for finding the Root Cause, or multiple causes for the "sad and depressed feelings."
In
the Methods and Techniques sections we'll be reviewing several ways to
get to the information in a How To format. Here we're just beginning to
look at How and Why the subconscious mind seems to hide information and
put up those blocks.
The Emotional Healer & The Subconscious Mind
Fortunately
the conscious mind is an excellent doorway to the hidden emotions. We
know that the subconscious mind never forgets.
The conscious
mind only acts upon the buried emotions. This is the entry point. By
asking, "Where does it hurt?," the emotional healer will find that the
subconscious mind will provide many clues if we're just willing to
listen for them.
When ever we're faced with someone that doesn't
know why she's feeling the way she is, as an Emotional Healer or
Facilitator, we should automatically recognize that it's the
subconscious mind simply doing it's job. And that job, in line with the
Soul Purpose, is to protect and defend the conscious mind so that the
Personality can fulfill the Soul's Purpose.
Emotions, Thoughts and Feelings If our emotions are the result of our thoughts and feelings, then how do we change them to get to new and better emotions?
The Subconscious Mind and Metaphors The
subconscious mind has a wealth of information but the problem is how to
get it. The answer is in using metaphors, the language of pictures...
