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Past Events Can Feel As If They Are Happening Now
Some of you will remember how quickly I shut down in-person sessions in March 2020. That decision was influenced by my remembered fear and grief over the year that found my daughter Katy Rose hospitalized four times for serious pneumonia, twice with dangerous complicating factors. Once they thought they were losing her.
I’m not at peace with that memory and that’s essentially the key to what BodyTalk calls an “active memory,” one that still carries a charge and interferes with healthy living. Sometimes that interference is dramatic. And there’s never just one. We each carry many, many of these, in threads and interconnected networks of related themes.
In respect to mine from Katy Rose’s hospitalizations, every day during the first year of the pandemic, the news could trigger memories. I am a mom, after all. I would do what I could to address those triggers, and the next news cycle would set me off again. Fortunately, my daughter isn’t so much into reading the news, was mostly been safely cocooned at home, so didn’t experience the same challenges.
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Flowers Brought Beauty Into Rose's Hospital Room, 2016.
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When a session targets a particular symptom, the potential associated emotional experience often is hidden, unknown or misunderstood.
It must be indentified.
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The Beauty of Working "By Priority," In Discovery
In my BodyMind Spirit Healthcare practice, it often comes up as a priority to work with clients to balance out “Active Memories,” or memories where the emotional content of experience hasn't been fully incorporated or synthesized. Your BodyMind stores those causing varied and sometimes serious consequences to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
The particular gift of the approaches I use is that because they work at the subconscious level of the mind, you don’t need to relive the experience, nor do we have to access every detail of that experience. Instead, this approach focuses on unplugging the connection between your brain and the stored memory. The same technique can be used for entrenched belief systems or fears and phobias that impair your ability to be fully present in your life.
When a session targets a particular symptom, the potential associated emotional experience often is hidden, unknown or misunderstood. That’s the beauty of working “by priority,” in discovery. To do that, I use a “yes, no” muscle checking technique and navigate detailed charts, weaving whatever story that wants to be addressed. When a client asks what I’m driving toward in a session, the answer is I have no idea. I follow where muscle checking leads, am more of a facilitator or translator than author.
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Releasing Some of My Dad's Ashes in the BearTooth Mountains, 2017.
"Rituals" Of Letting Go Help Quiet Memory.
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Memories Can Also Be Resources That Nourish
Not all memories set up patterns of illness. Some memories can become resources. For years I drew on one of riding a friend’s horse through open meadows in the San Francisco Bay area, on land that later became Highway 280. It was a glorious sun-filled day and I felt so free.
Another memory that became a resource was camping in the Napa area of California with several friends from High School and dancing on a hillside under the arms of oaks, under the light of the moon, our music our voices and the sounds of our feet. It was a simple weaving grapevine step, one that everyone could quickly masters. I'm not sure who led the line -- probably my friend Kyre -- but I still remember the song, these 50 years later. And the moon that watched over us.
We can choose to revisit memories like these and invite them to continue to nourish us. When they come up as “priority” in a session, perhaps the only detail that surfaces might be you were about 12 years old and had an experience of freedom and joy, one where you really knew yourself. Quite often clients easily access the details of memories like these. And that in itself is a thing of beauty.
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Some Memories Become Resources That Nourish
This is the cabin where I stayed on retreat in Washington's Hoh Rainforest in 2019.
I fully expected to have returned by now.
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Chain, Chain, Chain,
Chains of Memory
Sometimes when addressing chains of memories, very specific experiences or beliefs create “knots” on a thread, each knot anchoring a particular memory, sometimes reaching back to conception or to en-utereo experience. If you Google spider webs there are so very many potential designs and these webs of memory are like that, varying between a single thread and a full-on fishing net of inter-connected experience.
This last spring, I found one of my own when working with severe muscle spasms in my gluts and piriformis muscles, a pattern that anchors deeply into my right calf and causes sciatica-like issues. What came up was being spanked as a child for various misbehavior (I know, shocking that I might misbehave, right?). I generally stood a the foot of my bed, just inside the doorway to my bedroom, and it was almost always my Dad who delivered the punishment, though generally, it was my mother who had the complaint. For all the memories of childhood I’ve buried, I can freely access my sense of defiance with these punishments, my anger, my lack of voice. When I found the web of memory as I worked on myself I didn’t need to name every knot or thread. I just knew they all anchored to those punishments and how my inner-self interpreted their message. I can tell you that web came and came and came.
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Me + My Mom + The Bug.
I have YIKES! memories of learning to drive a stick shift in this car.
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Health is Anything But Simple
For fourteen years I studied with a healer who called deeply hidden beliefs and experiences “wallpaper masks.” Wallpaper because while at first you notice them, after a while their design becomes invisible, just part of the background of your life’s unfolding. But whether you turn your attention toward one or not, it’s there, murmuring to you, or finally becoming more strident in anchoring symptoms that get your attention.
We are each anything but simple. Health is complex, calls on us to show up and show up and show up, to bring forward the courage of an explorer and a determined commitment to our own well-being.
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Do you have memories of an illness that get activated when you start feeling sick or a long-standing health issue you figured you need to live with?
To address these, likely we need to explore several "active" memories, memories often defined by a common theme. We might track through specific anchors, like who you think it benefits for you to continue holding on to restricting beliefs, concerns like whether others will support your healing, or if you are even worthy of healing. These explorations take time and commitment, they help you know yourself in new and revealing ways. They help you to heal.
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Try it . . .
I may soon be closing to in-person sessions. Meeting outdoors worked beautifully last summer but with this season's smoke and heat, it’s iffy. I will continue to offer sessions via Zoom and Zoom sessions are effective for exploring Active Memories. Just giving a heads up!
- Schedule a 20-minute call to chat about what's challenging your health. Or, request a free intuitive "Epi" (Epigenetics) health scan to help identify those challenges. The best way to do that is to text: 406-920-2691. Let me know three times you have available and I will either confirm one of those or make an alternate suggestion.
- You may also schedule through Schedulicity. (BTW, BodyTalk IS effective at a distance. Read how and why, here).
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