Circuity

Unlock Your Subconscious Mind Heartwood Path

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Unlock your subconscious mind.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapeutic method that helps with emotional healing and lack of creativity.

Uncovering trauma buried in the subconscious mind may be a critical step towards achieving success in your life.

The following activity is a way to experience the benefits of building the circuitry between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Doing so will show you a simple yet effective way to unlock barely noticeable memories, notions, and information in your subconscious mind. Use this activity to increase your creativity, evoke relaxation, and help you to fall asleep. It will also help you deal with low to moderate traumas and nagging feelings of depression. For serious depression, for mood swings that last longer than a month, or for any psychological malady beyond mild post-traumatic stress, seek out the assistance of a psychologist (to obtain a diagnosis and begin psychotherapy) or, if needed, a psychiatrist (if medications are needed).

The following activity involves a do-it-yourself method of EMDR--Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This psychotherapeutic method helps with emotional healing and lack of creativity. “When the process is complete, the brain has discarded the distorted subjective experience that had overwhelmed and remain frozen in the patient and replaced it with a positive perception of present reality” (Grand, 2001, p. 35). EMDR’s hallmark is the movement of the patients’ eyes from left to right repeatedly. This helps the patient because as the eyes move from left to right and right to left they simulate both sides of the brain. The “alternating bilateral stimulation enhances communication between the left and the right brains” (Grand, 2001, 24). This bilateral stimulation allows “the brain to reevaluate information frozen in a system that was overwhelmed at the time of the traumatic event” (Grand, 2001, 24).

Try it even if you are not aware that you need such healing. Doing so may reveal buried wounds that are adversely affecting your life, even if you are not presently aware that they exist.

I have tried EMDR and have found it to work amazingly well at revealing hidden sources of stress. It also was a good way for me to relieve the low-grade but persistent physical symptoms of emotional trauma.

EMDR helped me with an unnoticed trauma that I was not aware was affecting my life. After six one-hour sessions of eye movement therapy, I discovered that I had buried emotional trauma from some neglect I experienced in my early childhood and, to make up for my feelings of being neglected (and, therefore, not mattering to my parents), I have overcompensated by being a persistent nurturer in an attempt to matter, after all.

Be sure to do the following activity. EMDR will help you recover from emotional and psychological trauma (which many people have, perhaps subconsciously). Uncovering such trauma may be a critical step towards achieving success in your life. Doing the following EMDR activity repeatedly may also prepare your brain circuitry for any future samadhi meditations (like those at Waypoint 3.55 in the next Heartwood Path book).

To Repair Your Feelings…

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HumaNatureConnect Activity

Healing Emotional Wounds

Do not use this activity if you are in a deep, acute, or lingering depression. Continue only if you need enhanced creativity or if your physical or psychological symptoms are moderate, low, or outside of your awareness. This activity is suggested for those who may have nagging but minor aches or pains or for someone who is only mildly out of sorts but who cannot identify the source of the problem.

To uncover traumas buried in your subconscious mind that may be blocking your success:

1. search throughout your body for what we shall call a negative target experience (a “pain” that results from a subconscious memory of a negative event, such as an unexplained pain or tightness in the chest);

2. imagine that your chosen attractive being is an emotional healer;

3. begin the series of eye-movements, moving the eyes to a natural being to the left and then to a natural being to the right, back and forth for about about ten times;

4. after each set of eye movements, tell your healer where in your body you are feeling a nagging pain, tightness other target experience;

5. each time rank the degree of the discomfort of the target experience on a scale of 1-10;

6. assign what is for you an unpleasant color to the target experience;

7. continue doing the sets of eye movements, always telling your emotional therapist where the pain is located, it’s numerical degree of unpleasantness, and its color;

8. about halfway through the eye-movement sequences begin to replace the assigned unpleasant color with a preferred attractive color you associate with a discomfort-free part of your body;

9. after one of the last sequences, focus on the bridge of awareness between yourself and your chosen attractive natural being until some symbol—perhaps a mental image, a memory, or a sign—emerges that tells you what unpleasantness was buried;

10. note whether your degree of discomfort is declining or perhaps has disappeared as you continue with the eye movements and perhaps come up with a plausible source or cause of the target experience; and

11. discuss with your emotional therapist what using EMDR therapy to identify and diminish a buried trauma will likely do for your life.

Answering questions about the nature of the discomfort will activate the memory of the target in the occipital cortex, which controls sight in the brain (Grand, 2001, p. 26). Make sure your two objects (beings), one to your left and one to the right, are horizontally aligned. Keeping your head still, move your eyes slowly and gently from one object (being) to the other, repeatedly in a smooth, flowing fashion. If you are seeking relaxation, move your eyes even more slowly. After moving your eyes back and forth for a few seconds to a few minutes, re-ask the questions described earlier. Do not ask any questions during your back and forth eye movement sequences. Ask your questions before, in between, and after your eye movement sequences. Make sure your answers are honest. Give credence to all of your responses. After a few eye movement sequences, imagine replacing the unpleasant aches or feelings of tension you had in a part of your body with the positive feelings (and associated color) you feel in another part of your body. Instigate this replacement periodically as you do your eye movements and answer the questions.

“Once the negative has been resolved and cleared through, the positive more easily replaces it. And the force that drives this movement, the bilateral stimulation itself, came from nature” (Grand, 2001, p. 247).

In all but severe cases, you will unlock the reasons for your aches and tensions and replace these negative feelings with positive ones. If, after a few weeks of repeating this activity, you do not find emotional or physical relief, or if you do not improve your creativity, you are encouraged to seek the help of a professional EMDR therapist or a clinical psychologist.

After your last eye movement sequences, tell your chosen attractive being what you believe to be the cause of the target experience, noting the severity of the target feelings on the 1-10 scale. Give thanks for this connection experience. Either enjoy your newfound creativity and lack of distress or seek professional help.

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Nocturnal Pilgrimage

For best results, write down your impressions of each night’s dreams in your journal using the Heartwood Path Dreaming Time Protocols found in the Appendix. Afterwards, consider sharing your Dream Tending with others.

Having progressed this far, you are to be congratulated for your perseverance. You have only a few more waypoints to go in this book. Soon it will be time to start the next book which is all about the important task of setting your individuality before you learn in the third Heartwood Path book about the equally important task of integrating into the whole.

Keep going. What you have received so far is an orientation. You now have background information intended to give you a good start. More wondrous benefits and more time-honored but little-known methods lie ahead.