As conscious beings, we strive to improve ourselves and improve our circumstances, so that we can live happier lives, be present for our family and friends, and for a lot of us, also strive to help others in many ways.
When we think we’ve reached a certain level of happiness or fulfillment, and our lives have actually become better, we start to believe it will now always be an upward path. But suddenly something happens, and we are back in an old place of fear, or anger, or sadness, when we thought we had dealt with all those feelings. We are again stuck, not knowing what to do next, how to move forward. Or we seem to be going backwards, as an old limitation comes up again that we thought was over and done with.
It’s not that you are regressing; but it’s either an emotion that has not been fully processed before, or a limitation that until now, you were not able to let go of, because it was in some way still useful. Now that you have reached a higher level of awareness, it is coming up to be seen, appreciated for the protection it provided when you still needed it, and released with gratitude for it service.
When you created that limitation, probably in early childhood, you didn’t have enough understanding of what was really there in the event that traumatized you; and didn’t have the emotional maturity and stability to respond to it appropriately. So it was your soul that caused the emotion to go into the subconscious, so that you could survive and continue your evolution without being hindered by the conscious memory of it during your formative years.
Now that you’re a responsible adult with fully evolved mental and emotional bodies, and an intelligence that has learned enough about life and how it works, that same soul which never forgets anything is bringing that trauma up into awareness, so that you can consciously recognize its service to you, and let it go. With your intention of gratefully and lovingly letting go of each instance as it surfaces in your life, you are also dissolving the old neural pathways created in your brain, because you are now focusing on a more conscious way of being, and a more evolved way of living, than you were in past.
