03-22-2017, 12:52 PM
I am in agreement with what Agua has posted. It is an unfortunate idea that the new age (and some religions) has cultivated the idea that we are not a body, we are a soul. I understand the sentiment, but it's not helpful. We all have bodies right now, and to ignore them is not healthy. To honor them is healthy, in my opinion.
And the body comes with 3D mind and emotions, which are part of the whole reality of who we are in this moment. There has been extensive research and work done on fragmentation; two notable examples are Ekhart Tolle (more new age) and John Bradshaw (more mainstream but absolutely awesome), not to mention all the shamanic traditions devoted to it. One may not be ready to face deeply buried traumas, but to deny any existence of that possibility I think is even more harmful because it reinforces the fear around the "walls" of the buried trauma by setting up another (conscious) layer of resistance.
But there is no judgment about it. The ability to fragment, as Agua posted, saves the life of the traumatized person. It is a survival instinct and it works very well. Elkhart Tolle talks about the "pain body." The pain body is what reacts with emotional content, making the reactive person feel traumatized again, while directing the anger at a source that only triggers the original source of the pain.
I don't think anything is impossible. I don't think it's impossible to rise above Earthly traumas but I do think it's highly improbable. The thing is, the resistance to embracing the original trauma or "ugly" or negative experience and denying its existence or value, makes it a powerful, enigmatic, and unconscious force in a life.
And the body comes with 3D mind and emotions, which are part of the whole reality of who we are in this moment. There has been extensive research and work done on fragmentation; two notable examples are Ekhart Tolle (more new age) and John Bradshaw (more mainstream but absolutely awesome), not to mention all the shamanic traditions devoted to it. One may not be ready to face deeply buried traumas, but to deny any existence of that possibility I think is even more harmful because it reinforces the fear around the "walls" of the buried trauma by setting up another (conscious) layer of resistance.
But there is no judgment about it. The ability to fragment, as Agua posted, saves the life of the traumatized person. It is a survival instinct and it works very well. Elkhart Tolle talks about the "pain body." The pain body is what reacts with emotional content, making the reactive person feel traumatized again, while directing the anger at a source that only triggers the original source of the pain.
I don't think anything is impossible. I don't think it's impossible to rise above Earthly traumas but I do think it's highly improbable. The thing is, the resistance to embracing the original trauma or "ugly" or negative experience and denying its existence or value, makes it a powerful, enigmatic, and unconscious force in a life.
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