An experience
teaches something, but if there is not a high degree of clarity in
the experience, if you have an experience while you are
in a sense of disconnection, your body learns something negative.
After that, any time a similar situation arises, your body starts
running that negative response. It literally releases neural
peptides that start working with the brain, and the brain gets the
message, "Oh, I'm worthless," "I'm bad," "I'm
destructive," "I'm judgmental," "I'm incapable"
or "I'm whatever." It pulls in the memories
of all the failures that the body has been holding. Then you
are swamped with chemical validation from your own system, validation that
you are a mess. The chemicals are released in the body, and
you suffer that.
You may see this as a relatively hopeless situation, but it is not,
because everything about you has been learned. You can change
what you have learned. That is your power. You don't have
to stay where you are; you don't have to stay with what you have known.
When you have the "I'm bad" experience, it is because you
are running the old tape, the old program that has been established
through an emotional context of misunderstanding or misinterpretation
or hypnosis as to what actually occurred in the past. There
can't be any fault or judgment to that. You can't be blamed
for the program.
It is important to realize that emotions are also chemicals; when
you find yourself in a situation that seems similar
to the past event, the chemicals are released, and you can have
the same reaction that you learned long ago. This is where awareness
can bring about change. If you practice awareness and presence,
you can catch the reaction and realize, "Oh that is just a chemical
reaction to what is going on." It really is a chemical
reaction to what is happening. When you catch it that way,
you can realize, "Wait a minute. I created those chemicals,
therefore I can create different chemicals." It requires
an intentional shift. You begin to more or less demand
that the brain release different chemicals. When you develop
the feeling-knowing that this is possible, you are moving toward
real transformation.
If you believe you are trapped by your habitual reactions, you will
be trapped, because your belief is very powerful. Your belief
is like a channel or conduit of the chemicals. The belief allows
the chemicals to keep hitting you in the same way, so that you keep
having the same experiences. As you begin to realize "I
have been this bag of beliefs and conditioning all my life, and I'm
damn tired of it; what else is there to me?", a shift can begin
to occur. The feeling-knowing that there is more to you is very
important. Feeling-knowing can literally change your
chemistry.
The new species of humanity is the bringer of a new chemistry, new
neural peptides being released in the whole body which allow the cells
to begin to activate their lightness, their liberation, so as to function
at a higher frequency. As that happens, you can occasionally
hit the wall with an experience of old chemicals, but awareness
and allowing are very important then. If you don't fall into
judgment when the old chemicals are being released, but instead
realize, "Oh, that's an old reaction whose days are numbered," you
allow neural peptides to carry a chemical to other cells that begin
to systematically eliminate the old cells. In time, the old
chemistry disappears and you are no longer reacting to things.
It is empowering to realize that Life is chemistry. Just having
the awareness that your experience is the result of a learned chemical
reaction is so important, even if it requires time for that old experience
to begin to diminish in your life. When you have that awareness, you
begin to have a greater understanding, and you can no longer be so
judgmental of yourself; you see that the old reaction is just a release
of chemicals in the body. You see that it is just the past chemistry.
You have the past chemistry that circulates, and the present chemistry
that is evolving. It is a matter of seeing that the past is
systematically being washed out of your system. The process
goes more quickly if you can keep from judging yourself when you sense
those old chemical reactions taking place.
Awareness begins to release the chemicals that are necessary for evolution,
for evolving into a higher frequency and for maintaining that higher
frequency. In the new chemistry of this evolving awareness,
each experience teaches increasing connection, expanding harmony,
and brings about a more vibrant physical being.
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