We can only be present in each now moment! This moment in time is constantly moving
forward, so it is not a static thing.
Picture a strip of movie film. It
is made up of many consecutive images.
Each image is a frozen moment in time and can be looked upon as its own
complete picture. If you slice it out of
the film strip, there would be no evidence that it was a part of a whole moving
scene.
Our now moments are like that, too. Our place of power is in each of these ever evolving
moments, one after the next. Change,
healing and evolution all start in the now.
Not that we can’t go back and remodel our past, but we have to be firmly
anchored in the present to do so. This
is our starting point. It is from the
current perspective that we can get a sense of what needs to be done.
In addition to this, if all of one's healing and evolutionary
changes are not anchored into this present moment, it is as if the change never
happened. I routinely encounter
people who have done a lot of work on themselves over the years and I would
never know it. They are a mess. This is because they were out of their body
when making these changes and the changes were not grounded into the reality of
their present moment.
First, let’s examine the looping back to the past phenomenon. There can be many causes for this. Are there unresolved attachments to a past event
that you just keep looping back to? Does
your past seem more dramatic, meaningful or less boring compared to your
present life? Are you carrying a grudge?
Do you feel incomplete with a certain event?
There can also be energetic reasons for the looping. Soul loss at an early age through trauma can
keep drawing a person’s unconscious back to that event for healing. Another trauma based pattern that keeps one
locked into the past is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. With this disorder, the imprint from a traumatic
event in the past never leaves the person’s energy field, thus the cyclic reliving
of the original events.
I am not saying that the solution to this is to just ignore
your past, as many people are pulled there automatically according to some of the
above factors. The key is to examine past events from your
present position. Then you have the power to shift the memory and energy of what
you are being drawn back to.
Projecting one’s energy and thoughts into the future is
another pattern that can prevent a person from anchoring into the here and
now. Fear is the main driving force for
this pattern. If one has had a shaky
start to life with traumatic birth difficulties, lack of a safe and secure
environment at home, parents who weren’t adequately prepared to nurture and
care for a child, one can believe that the world is not a safe place to
be. They will project into the future to
find the next threatening event with the hope that they can prevent disaster if
forewarned. Being present and in the now
may not be perceived to be a safe place to be if an unknown and dangerous event
is lurking just around the corner.
I have found that some of my clients are fixated on the coming
global financial collapse, earth changes, social unrest, etc, and want to use
those themes in their healing sessions. Their
mind loops through the fear almost constantly. I then have to work with them to focus on an
issue that is current and timely, as that is where they can make a shift. It is impossible to shift the trauma of an
event if it hasn’t happened yet!
Bottom line, focusing on the past or the future keeps one
ungrounded and out of the body. One’s
place of power in the here and now is not able to be utilized for productive
healing and change. I will be writing more
about the grounding process in the next post.
Wow, great post ! thanks !
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