The awakening process is a physiological and somatic experience that is unique to the journey of each soul. Our ancestral trauma, held within the signature codes of our luminous spiraling strands of DNA, is that which binds us to our own shadow nature, while simultaneously containing the seed potentiality for our personal liberation and awakening.
This trauma is embedded within our nervous and endocrine systems, and literally prevents us from accessing higher states of embodied awareness and consciousness. These signatures are passed down through generations, and powerfully dictate the chemical experience and makeup of our lives through our hormonal balance or imbalance These states spring from our family tree, are hereditary, and are imprinted upon us at conception.
Whether one is capable of operating in higher states of awareness has everything to do with ones ability to consciously move away from the lower reptilian brain experience, which is one of survival, fight flight freeze ( or fawn ) and the sympathetic nervous system.
This is in direct juxtaposition to the intuitive expanse of the higher brain experience which is one of spiritual thriving, the relaxation response, and the parasympathetic nervous system.
When we operate out of our lineage of trauma, the sympathetic nervous system is primarily active. One lives in a state of perpetual fear, paranoia, and basic survival where higher experiences are chemically and hormonally arrested in the body. To live in this highly volatile state causes dis-ease on all levels, and this is why illness always contains within it a pshychospiritual dimension and root. This experience of disease takes us out of a state of homeostasis and fundamental wellness, and into a state of imbalance and instability, dysbiosis and disfunction.
When we operate through an empowered sensibility and activate the ongoing healing of our ancestral lines, we have greater access to the experience of the parasympathetic nervous system, and the activation of the Vegus Nerve. Through this activation, we are able to access experiences of expansion, joy, universal love, all born from the fundamental ground of basic safety. Through the experience of safety, we cultivate the ability to be at peace within ourselves. Without this feeling of safety and peace, the sacred technology of the body cannot fully be accessed, and lies dormant - until we are ready to heal the lines and digest the shadow.
When we learn to relax into our suffering and discomfort, whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual, we begin a process of recalibration of our ancestral signatures and trauma lineages embedded within our genetic structures. We begin to digest and assimilate these trauma lineages, and allow for the system to step out of the patterning that has been embedded within these signature codes for generations. We are teaching our bodies that we may remain at ease within potential states of distress, and as we relax into the experience, we can begin to trust the embodied wisdom which rises up to meet the situation. Through this, we also begin to access the deeper ground of wisdom which is simultaneously available within these sacred genetic structures, and embedded within our cellular life. This is a miraculous experience where we move towards the unique hormonal and neurological balance of our physiological system, and begin to embrace a radical acceptance and love of the soul journey that each of us has been on.
This radical acceptance and love can be cultivated daily as a somatic realty, practice, and experience. We can engage this alchemical process, and consciously move towards the embrace of our own humble beauty, divinity, and miraculous soul life. Through this radical acceptance we can begin to forgive our ancestors for what they were not capable of understanding and digest the trauma that informs our lineages, while cultivating a profound gratitude for all that they have passed down to each of us. We are here because of them. We stand on their shoulders, as our children will stand on ours.
May we all learn to recalibrate our systems so that we can access all the fruits of life that are waiting for each and every one of us. This is so much of what The Sacred Body work is about. Weekly classes of Movement Medicine and Yoga and Somatic Alchemy dive deeper into the practices which support such processes.
