What are we releasing FROM and what are we releasing INTO?
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a Field.
I’ll meet you there”. ~ Rumi
My Beloved Friends,
Welcome to September.
The seasonal shift of late Summer is closing one chapter and another one is emerging soon. May we enjoy the magic of the between the seasons.
A few weeks ago I returned from Canada where I attended Somatic Trauma Release training.
It was a wonderfully enriching learning experience and I am excited to share with you these new tools and practices.
Somatic Trauma Release addresses deeply held tension and blockages in the physical and energetic body. These blockages are a result of unprocessed past traumas, stress or overwhelm.
Using various sacraments and energy work as de-armoring tools, we aim to enable the natural flow of energy through our body and restoring our nervous system’s capacity. Somatic trauma release is a series of holding techniques that bring significant shifts in consciousness. These special holding techniques soften any resistance in the emotional body and the psyche. They supports and regulate the nervous system, build resilience, activate the prana (life force) and open the body into a state of expansion.
In the training we worked with threshold doses (small, handshake doses) as these are optimal for psychological material to shake out, to be processed and embodied.
What are benefits and challenges of Low-Dose vs Full Release?
Can altered states be equally healing as liberating?
Yes! It is not either or. It is BOTH, AND.
I often speak to Samadhi states which are undeniably accessible through the vehicle of sacred medicine, but there are a whole range of experiences one can have with smaller doses.
Small doses can often be ego challenging.
From the therapeutic lense when fear, discomfort or underlying protective system is on high alert we are invited to work with these limitations.
In a safe and therapeutic setting with a skilled practitioner the journeyer can utilize these challenging states to move through arising limitations and fragmentations (such as PTSD, pre-verbal and developmental trauma) with more ease, grace and understanding. Therefore, journeyer gains newly found sense of personal freedom, embodying what was deeply rooted in the unconscious to now be embraced and integrated into the practicality of life.
However, if the journeyer is not supported through their challenging experience they may find their medicine journey to be highly destabilizing and disorienting.
Set and setting, and in depth preparation process will allow for a deeply transformational experience to take place within one’s psyche and their emotional being.
It is important to understand Foundational Practices that are required when coming to this work.
Going into an expanded state is an extraordinary opportunity to explore our infinite internal world, with its unique energies and blocks. Meditation, contemplation, cleanliness of body and mind are all wonderful tools to help one prepare for a sacred, healing journey.
Psycho-somatic modalities are complimentary to psychedelic journeys and a well trained and experienced practitioner will be versed in helping you navigate the deepest depths of unconscious realms, as well as the most sacred mystical expansions.
Most of our life we spend navigating this 3D reality.
According to David Hawkins’ Levels of Consciousness chart, lower expressions of human experience are embedded within the 3D realms. This is the realm of Victim/Abuser consciousness. As we spiritually evolve we gradually shake off these immature orientations. The nature of suffering is to dominate our consciousness.
As we grow, evolve and realize ourselves we naturally begin to operate and function from 4D realms, the realm of Self-Empowerment. 5D is the realm of Self-Realization and Unity Consciousness, and realms above lead to Direct Perception of Emptiness, ClearLight, the Akashic Field and total Awakening.
We don’t have to strive to operate from 5D and beyond, we simply wouldn’t be able to function in life or relate to others.
However, utilizing sacred medicine tools to expand our consciousness we pierce into these higher realms and taste the infinite potential of our human manifestation and therefore re-integrate back into reality with deeper connection to our True Nature, that which is infinite and luminous.
These higher states then begin to inform our purpose in Life. Samadhi states or “Diamond Luminosity” or “Diamond Light” is a brilliantly clear, supremely luminous radiance that exists beyond cyclic existence altogether. It is the crystalline body of God’s innermost being. Buddhism calls it Dharmakaya. It is the Akashic Field, a subtle sea of fluctuating energy from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings and consciousness.
Understanding and realizing our potential within our shadows is the ultimate gift we can receive. Our gifts are hiding within the unconscious.
Ascent is as important as descent.
It is not about chasing bliss or becoming immortal. This work is about fully embracing our humanity and realizing our divinity.
This “work” is a sacred practice. The more adapt we are in traversing these higher states the better we are at navigating life’s everyday challenges. It is BOTH & AND!
Maturity knows that expansion must be balanced. Expansion of awareness, love and creativity seep into the unconscious.
As our spirit ripens, the rest of life moves towards balance.
Effortlessness then just arrives. It just is. It comes quietly and calmly.
Eventually, as our practice deepens through the profound stillness of the concentrated meditative mind one can learn to tune in and resonate with those deep frequencies. This is how we liberate from the illusion of separation: anger, resentment, fear, desire and all mental afflictions that suffocate and cause endless suffering can be transformed and transmuted into acceptance, courage, joy, wisdom and love.
As always, I am honored to hold you in your Sacred Unfolding.
Love,
Lena