Our minds are fascinating systems that create layered stories and beliefs through the attachment of past memories and impressions from social conditioning. The Ego is the part of the mind that is built through our human experiences and gives us a sense of Self as an “other” from the rest of the world.

Much of the content spun through our mind in the form of thoughts is an accumulation of falsities about ourselves and the world. The Ego holds tightly to its manufactured beliefs and stories in an illusion that the company of even our most degrading and limiting beliefs keep us “safe” because they have become familiar.

The distortions of the mind are often a manifestation of original emotional wounds that were not given space to be processed through with unconditionally Loving safety. The thought patterns spun through our minds are also often distractions from the true intensity and depth of these repressed emotions.

Emotion is vibrational energy in motion. When we experience dense energies traveling through the body (like fear), and our environment is not nurturing or safe for us to process that emotion through a restored, calm parasympathetic nervous system, it can become lodged in the body with the resulting Freeze, Flight, Fight, or Appease response that occurs in the sympathetic nervous system state.

Our breathing becomes altered as a result of sympathetic activation into a shallow state to ensure that the experience that was deemed too unsafe to be fully Felt will be repressed, and a mental story is created as a “Repression Cap” for that pain which had to bury itself.

I believe trauma is any event or conditioning that separated us from our True-Organic state of innocence - a state of total love for the world we were so vibrantly excited to be birthed into. To debate if such events or conditions were “big T or little t traumas” is a futile pursuit, since we are all inherently worthy of finding freedom from the painful separations and returning our being to Wholeness.

Our mind has vast potential when we befriend it as an access point for our deeper wisdom and Truth. However, in order to “shift our mindset”, we must learn how to travel beyond it and into the Body, where the silent truth can disintegrate the imprisoning illusions about ourselves and the world.

Traveling down past the mind and into the Body creates space for stuck E(motion) to release. Intentionally using the breath to move beyond the “Repression Caps”, allows us the opportunity to create new Safety and fully Feel the wound, drawing its energy out of hiding and create a pathway of release and recognition.

The road to freedom is through Self Exploration. We do this by becoming aware of emotional roots, cultivating mental presence to weed out falsities and expose the underlying holes, and restructuring safety within the body held in reinforcement of newly seeded empowering beliefs.

In the space we clear by letting emotions release through Feeling, we meet our Truth.

Our Soulful wisdom can surface and in the emergence lies an opportunity to Remember the Felt Freedom we are inherently worthy of alchemizing our pain into- this is the power we were born with.

Your body knows how it release and rewire, and it all begins with creating the safety to Listen to its wisdom.