In the early days of healing when you have a great amount of stress and past experiences or trauma built up, connecting with the subconscious mind may not be easy. It may very likely a big challenge to do this. After being put under great duress for long periods of time, the mind and body don't trust anything you would do to upset the delicate balance these struggles have created.
Be patient with yourself if you are attempting to do this for the first time. It may take some time of working with it and it may take someone that is trained in this area to help. If you've been running from the tiger in the jungle, it isn't going to be easy to convince yourself that you are no longer running. This is at the heart of connecting to the subconscious mind.
Connecting to the subconscious mind is allowing yourself a safe place without distraction to just stop. Stopping from the hustle of your day and allowing yourself to go in and feel. Allowing yourself to go in and sense. Allowing yourself to just be in that moment with nothing else that matters.
While you may think that this is meditation, it is similar but different. Meditation helps you to turn off your mind and just be in the moment. However, what I am discussing is that when you do this, you do it through your senses.
What do I mean, do it through your senses?
As you begin to just stop and be in the moment, ponder or ask yourself,
- What do I notice in my body?
- What do I sense?
- What do I feel?"
You are focusing on what you sense and feel, but you're not trying to make sense of it. You're just observing it. You are noticing it. You are inviting it in and asking what is there.
Senses can be anywhere from what you feel in your skin, muscles, or tissues to noticing a smell or a feeling of warmth or coldness. It can be noticing how much your breath is holding back or how shallow it may to even how deep it is. Anything you can sense is valid here. There is no right and no wrong observations.
Observe and Stay with your senses...
The more you observe the sensations, the more they may intensify. This may be the point where you need a safe person trained in these concepts to help be there with you, holding the space and safety for you to explore these new things.
The more you can stay with these sensations and just observe them, the more they have the potential to physically change in that moment. Allowing and surrendering to these things, gives you the power to connect and reclaim the parts that have become disconnected. As you do this, you reclaim the energy that is stored up in these areas which is robbing you of much needed daily strength and a deep sense of peace.
Use breath, sound, movement
Often, it helps to use your breath to work through these moments, along with sounds and movements. These aren't wild movements or sounds or breaths, but connected where it is like you are using them to observe that which you are feeling. I always look at it as if I am using a magnifying glass to observe and the way I do this is through connected movement, sounds, and breathing.
The process is more involved then the simplistic way I am describing it. I'm just trying to lay the foundation to more fully understand that there is a way to connect with your subconscious mind. The more you do it, the more you reclaim the disconnected parts of your life.
Not just a mental exercise...
This is not just a mental exercise. It is an exercise that is very body oriented where you connected with the subconscious mind. It is very physical, but not in the sense that we normally understand. It is physical because you are using your senses and observation to connect with something much deeper and greater within your mind and body.
You are not trying to put the reason you think these sensations show up. Don't make the mistake of thinking that if you pain in one area it means x,y,z because you will limit this experience. You will be connected to your thoughts rather to the felt sense within you. It will not get you to the point you need to go in order to connect with the subconscious. There may be a story that evolves from this experience, but it is not the focus of what you are trying to do. You're trying to step out of your logical mind and feel and sense.
A very powerful healing concept...
The power of this concept once you learn and understand it is beyond comprehension. I've seen very physical issues in my own body change and heal right before my eyes. I have seen this happen in other people in some very real ways that would almost be too hard to believe if you had not seen them.
The subconscious mind is a powerful force that tries to keep us operating in life even when we throw so much stress and trauma at it. However, if we avoid and disconnect from it and numb our self to it, we make it that much harder to connect to it. By avoidance and disconnection, we sentence our life to struggles that work hard to take us under. The more you avoid something, the stronger that reaction becomes in your mind and body.
I'm not sharing pie-in-the-sky concepts. These are truths that I have discovered through the work of Dr. Paul Canali and Unified Therapy. I have seen how these things have impacted me in some very powerful and life-changing ways.
If we all can begin to understand just how much we avoid and numb and disconnect in our day, we have the possibility to make a different choice of what we do. It is through the felt sense and stopping to notice and observe that we offer ourselves the greatest healing power. This is not new age mumbo jumbo. This is real healing work that makes a difference.
Further Reading:
- When A Subconscious Mind Is Exposed (Sep 13, 2016)
- Subconscious Mind Impacted By Past Experiences (Sep 14, 2016)
- Subconscious Disconnected By Numbing (Sep 15, 2016)
- Connect To The Subconscious Mind (Sep 16, 2016)
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