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I’ve been reading the memoir’s of a young woman who was institutionalized by her mother. The young woman turned to drugs, alcohol and whatever she could find to numb the pain of her experience.  Physically she didn’t have anything wrong with her, except she was turning to substance to numb the experiences that she was having.

There are those who could have a belief that they don’t have any health issues per se however, they don’t consider that the wine that they have every evening or the bottle for that matter,  has a great numbing affect.  Nor do they consider shopping a numbing affect.  The many things that we do as a society to numb what is taking place in our bodies is amazing.

Our bodies are incredible Living Organic Bio Processors.  Much like a computer if you wish except, we are living and evolve/manifest.  What we do have in common with computers though is something that I never considered until tonight when I was reading an article.  I found myself reflecting on different conversations that I’ve had over the past year or so.

I remember my friend Cathy asking me, “How do you always stay so present to yourself?”  My response was simple.  “It’s a matter of life or death.”  If I lie, then I’m not present to myself.  If I lie, the body remembers and the memory is held in the tissue of my body.  That memory could evolve/manifest into something that the medical society refers to as a ‘tumor.’

If you think of a computer that has tons and tons of information stored in it and someone ‘hacks’ into it and gives it different information, it crashes.  How are we so different?  When we don’t listen to our bodies and we lie to ourselves, eventually the body is going to have to ‘dump’ some of the information.  The information stored in the tissue which is dumped, are referred to as ‘dis-ease.’  The body will only go so far with you being untrue to yourself – to it.  We look to others for the answers because we no longer trust the information/impulses in the body when all we have to do is know, that the body never lies.  There is no intellect in the body.

We’re taught at a very young age not to trust ourselves.  Children know right from wrong because they listen to their bodies.  Adults are the ones that change the knowing that a child has in thier bodies.  It’s not a judgement rather it’s a very valuable awareness.

I work with clients who have been physically, mentally and sexually abused. For the most part, they share with me that even though they were sexually abused by their father that it wasn’t that bad.  However the fear they had of sharing the information with their mother’s, was what kept them silent.

These children grow up having kept secrets/lies, knowing the whole time that it was a lie and it didn’t feel right in their bodies and yet the alternative would have possibly been worse.  Children are beaten all the time and sometimes murdered by the individuals that should be creating a safe and loving environment for them.  The outcome is adults riddled with health issues.

Every response in the body is intelligent.  Something inside a child says, “I know what daddy is doing isn’t right but if I tell mommy she may beat me.  Or if I tell another adult they’ll think that I’m making it up.”  So children remain silent because for many reasons, it’s safer for them and they know.  But at what point in our adult lives do we speak up and out and say “No Longer?”

Children remember the abuse that they went through at the hands of their parents and their siblings.  I remember.  I would ask if they do but I know the answer.  CHILDREN REMEMBER.  It’s that simple.

Why is it that it seems so easy to lie and yet so difficult to tell the truth?  I guess years of cultural conditioning will do that to you.  Hmmm, that is the sad truth that we all need to embrace.  We need to start getting honest with ourselves and others.  In a breath, our lives can change.  We can evolve and manifest something magnificent or we can continue to lie and still evolve and manifest health issues.  Thank-you and I’ll go for door number one.

A computer can be fixed by someone who is knowledgeable about computers.  A computer is not a living organism like we are.  We’re not broken but we do may have an over loaded system that requires us to look within to consider something different.  There is no one outside of our bodies that can change or look at our experiences and process the information for us.  We have to do that ourSelves.

Honest – Open – Clear – Direct = Transformation ~ Evolution.  If we continue to live our lives based on someone else’s experience, we’ll never know what it’s like to live Fully Alive.  Life is an experience.  Experience it for yourSelf.

Creating Space for Transformation ~ Evolution

Amy