"Words are the most powerful drugs..."

 “Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind”                                                                                 Rudyard Kipling


Every one has a story. We make sense of our experiences by creating our stories to explain our perspective and share the experience with others. These stories represent our beliefs and frame all of our future experiences. We also learn much from the stories and experiences of others.

Just how the story is retold is reflective of our feelings that are being stored as a result of the experience. Our body is always listening to our minds, neurologically, metabolically,  biochemically and physically. When the story has a positive charge it can help us build strength, happiness, connection and endeavour. Noticing the emotional charges you carry to events in the past assist in your ability to trust and manage the uncertainty of the future.

Your story is the key to understanding if your inner experience is able to
re-organise your consciousness inspiring you to grow. In contrast with retelling events from a view point of non-acceptance, wishing to restore life back to the way it was, before the point of impact. In each moment that you are telling your story, you are either building resilience or diminishing it. 

Unwanted and unexpected events happen in life. In order to continue to grow, develop and expand, we need to give ourselves permission to feel the charge behind the story. This is not about sugar coating these hard experiences. Be it absolute terror, grief or sadness, the tension has to be allowed expression to release stress, tension and pressure. The hardest part with these difficult emotions is that they come in waves to be released.

It is when we become stuck in our story and need to repeat it over and over again, we are choosing to store the emotion rather than feel it. Conscious emotion is released in seconds, however as long as the "why me?" story runs, we will keep charging our state of dis-ease and the difficult emotions that are contained within, are prevented from passing through. Anger, guilt, sadness, grief, resentment then are diluted in the moment and buried deeper and deeper into our bodily nervous systems from a conscious, to a subconscious, to a cellular level as we struggle to find the sense and the meaning in the event. Sometimes the story has to shift from "Why me" to "it is as it is..." to let it go. Letting go is the toughest part. 

If we view our emotion as water running through our systems, our plumbing becomes blocked. This has a ripple effect upon those that we love. 

These suppressed emotions erode our trust in our self as a self healing organism and weigh us down. Ironically the more we actively avoid feeling the pain of the negative emotions, the more rigid and fixed our version of the events become. Like a really bad movie, we can visit this cinema daily, countless times. Your story paints the picture in your mind and impacts your state of resourcefulness. Defence patterning then becomes hard wired in your body. It is difficult to move on from deep seated energy blockages as emotion is "energy in motion."

If we are to gain confidence and trust in our ability to support our self and deal with change, time is needed to reflect on the patterns and cycles of events in our lives. When we become willing to be present with the underlying emotions and feel them. We step out of the pattern and reveal the part of our soul/infinite self that cannot be broken. We are never presented with a new opportunity without an opportunity cost.  Our evolution depends on our ability to cope with  the uncertainty and unpredictability of life.

If you are consciously choosing to numb your emotions through distractions chasing peak experience after peak experience, then your frustrations will nourish your addictions and feelings of inadequacy. Decisions that may feel good in the moment can short circuit our pain for self preservation in the short term. These decisions are the quick fix and they vary from excessive screen time, alcohol, drugs, sex, shopping, gaming, compulsively working and over doing for others. The dialogue that supports this behaviour is "I'll be happy when..." keeping the inner experience of discontent in place. Unfortunately we are hard wired to avoid pain and seek pleasure so this experience is more the norm and the rule  in  our society. It literally feels like you are running around in circles unable to stop.

If your inner experience is out of balance with your outer purpose, it may be time to get to know yourself a little bit better. To harness your own inner wisdom and allow these challenges to be transformed into strengths. Your body is very wise and it will provide the clues when you need to slow down.

When we are the victim, we blame and want someone else to be responsible for the way we are feeling. We expect they will change, so we won't have to.  However negative emotions can be the biggest motivation for positive change. We are the only ones that can attempt this kind of transformation, turning base metals into gold. 

There is a time for everything. Life is a continuous spiral of rest and motion...however it is a spiral going somewhere. To know how to self-regulate through these valley's are the keys to fully experiencing the next big high.

Pure Consciousness is an alternative path. It requires that we own our feelings. We take responsibility for our story and our inner experience of it. We connect to the charges and learn to release it. Re-organising our consciousness around difficult events from our core, heart and brain requires the courage to fully feel. When the story is released, so is the defence patterning in the body and a new level of love and light is illuminated for you to awaken to the absolute miracle of life that you are, that sits waiting to be remembered. 

Pure Consciousness Meditations is the gift you give yourself. It is time for you to deepen your trust and your connection to the inner wise one?  Learn to turn down the volume of your story, so that you can break free of old patterns and find new energy to revitalise your love of life. Release the story and you are set free, as the infinite self cannot be explained in words.  All in life is connected, the work you do for you, impacts the whole.