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Come Home In To Your Body

  • Writer: Melanie Barrett
    Melanie Barrett
  • Apr 3
  • 7 min read


When feeling ‘fomo’ or in a state of comparison with someone elses life experience or when you are worrying about your life or feeling disempowered and stuck, you are in the 'limited' mind. Recycling old, stale, historical data. That's why it feels bad. When you are fearful of the future you are in the limited mind. The challenges and confrontations of conflicting energies don’t stop in life.


Life is an infinite ocean of ever changing flow. But when you begin to function more from your soul or your essence, life becomes lighter , freer, more expanded somehow. You deeply understand that life experience is always for your growth and evolution. It is always calling you home to unintegrated energy in your body. But we are SOOOO addicted to 'thought' that it can feel difficult to let our attention flow away from it. We've inhabited the limited mind for so long, it's all we are familiar with.


Here are some simple practices to flow attention away from the 'thought' field and back home in to the body; the present moment, God within, intuition.


Get away from social media or any attachments or distractions and out in to nature, listen to beautiful music, get grounded out of mental chaos and back in to the body in any way that resonates with you. Maybe a bubble bath, maybe cuddling your pet. Meditate, dance, do some gentle yoga. Anything to FEEL back in to the body and out of THINKING!!!!


Begin to allow your FEELINGS, trust them, trust life, trust yourself. No they're not always comfortable but they are YOU!!!


Let go of need for approval by others to BE you, naturally.


When you are grounded and attuned to your authenticity i.e the frequency of love/ Soul/ expansion - Soul purpose moment to moment guides you. But you have to 'be' with the backlog of unexpressed emotional energy first! This is held as trauma in the body.


You must take brave steps to flow your attention away from the mental, repetitive loops of mental conditioning that holds you in the current ‘status quo’, the current imagined 'holding pen', and the ‘condition’ will heal/ resolve itself...like magic....Life is magic...not logic! AND both!


What practices can you cultivate and commit to EVERY SINGLE DAY to reconnect you to the infinite ocean of energy or higher intelligence within you. How can you make inner connection to your Source your main priority in life? Not for gain or to get somewhere or to fix or avoid discomfort…just because it’s the Truth/ the Clarity of who/ what you are.


You are a mental body, an emotional body, an energetic body AND a physical body.


How can we integrate and balance ALL aspects of ourselves and live from ALL of them. This is our life long quest!


How do we stop living only in the mental body of THOUGHT...it is so limited and constricted...of course it is...that's why it feels so bad...it is only a small aspect of the totality of our BEING...if we are not infusing our being with fresh energy, pure potential, new ideas, creativity, then it simply circulates and regurgitates existing data...that's why it feels like same shit...different day!!!!


How can you create a practice and commitment every day to tune in to, balance and align each of your bodies so that they are working together, harmoniously, to navigate your life experience in an expanded, balanced, creative and relaxed way, with clarity and purpose? This must be your priority and only YOU can do it!! YOU have free will to choose the matrix of mind and comparison or your SELF. Do you want more? or do you want your SELF?


How can you begin to feel AND sense AND think your way through your reality, your daily life....EVERY moment fresh and alive...brimming with potential because it always is...


THIS INFINITE MOMENT...RIGHT HERE..... BENEATH 'THOUGHT' IS ALWAYS FRESH, NEW AND ALIVE!!!!


It’s not enough to do your hour of yoga or hour of meditation and reconnection to your essence every other day or twice per week then back in to my ‘normal’ identity….DROP THE IDENTITIES COMPLETELY…BE YOUR TRUE SELF!! HERE IS FREEDOM!! What are you frightened you'll lose by being your self? You lose much much more by not being yourself!


True healing or I prefer integration, takes true commitment to your healing (integration) journey, in order to dissolve old identity structures that no longer serve you.


We've played our roles for so long that we've become completely identified....lost in them!


To integrate identities is deep, deep inner work, it takes commitment to connect to you at your soul, visceral, energetic level. The foundations have to be shaken up, you need to feel safe enough and grounded enough to do this inner work - you need your connection to your soul essence to do it. Otherwise any healing only takes place at the superficial level, you can’t dissolve identity structures while you are keeping hold of them and it literally feels like death as they dissolve. But this is freedom some souls yearn. Mine did :). I was born wanting to go home to Truth :). My journey home took stripping away every role I played, every identity (identification) I had...and still the deepening in to God...in to authenticity and Truth continues....Infinitely.


If we continue the existing patterns and stay unconscious i.e work, home, tv, bed and just moan about how unfulfilled we are we will remain functioning primarily from our ‘pain, trauma, identity’ structure. We feel only like a little drop in the ocean, suffering the tides and swirls of the ocean, victims of the matrix, the 'conditioned' mental (thought) body.


When we truly commit to ourselves (our Souls) to put reconnecting with our 'inner' being, feeling, somatic, energy body, as a priority over our mental (thinking) body (drama stories), our lives and perspectives change dramatically, there's more lightness and space created, we are no longer perceiving only from a limited lens or from the ‘pain, trauma, stifled’ body, mental reality. But here the work begins :). I say work but it is beautiful, empowering, insightful, creative work. You getting to know you, authentically. What or who am I really underneath all of these veils of conditioned ideologies and indoctrinated perspectives. What do I really want beyond the ideas I've been told will bring happiness and joy - such an amazing journey of self discovery!


We begin living life from the wholeness within ourselves. Our consciousness becomes expanded to incorporate more or greater or wider perspectives of our authentic expression.


Grounding practices, flowing attention back in to the body or presence are not just about self soothing (which also happens). These practices are literally reconnecting you, or plugging you back in to the intelligence of the universe, the greater Being that we are, and you’ll receive understanding and insight about your energy body, authentic motivations, authentic needs of the body etc. You are tuning in to or connecting with a clear mirror and you'll be open enough to feel YOUR deepest truth, it takes a life time to cultivate this trust in YOUR direct experience but this is living in truth... authenticity....God...Home...


This is SELF mastery.


Deep integration and embodiment of your Soul evolves over lifetimes and involves not only intellectual understanding but emotional maturity, integration and evolution which of course reflects itself in the health of the physical body. The mental, emotional and physical body are intrinsically connected. This only becomes obvious as you mature as holistic Being.


Doesn’t matter how well versed you may be in spiritual perspectives and practices at the level of intellect, how is your emotional maturity, how are you at expressing your authentic truth moment to moment? How open and free to express are ALL of your energy centres or chakras? How well do you know yourself and your inner conflicting aspects? How well do you know what each part of you wants and needs moment to moment? What are the cells in your physical body holding on to...resisting change of?


Great healing, integration work & evolution occurs in group settings. Our individual energetic expressions mingle and help each other to evolve. In a group where the priority or motivation is soul evolution and growth, we trigger and help each other integrate consciously in a safe container of love. Our society, even our family groups have become so heavily identified in 'individuality' that triggers have become so personal and so become trapped 'trauma' in the body.


If a family group or societal group is underpinned by a foundation of safety, i.e conscious awareness of Soul essence, there's freedom to express and grow and therefore evolve through the challenge or confrontation of conflicting energies or perspectives... there's an intuitive knowing of the wholeness that we are therefore all individuals function ultimately for 'the group'.


Evolution happens naturally anyway just by being alive...but why not evolve consciously 'in love'??


It starts individually, by being consciously aware of inner conflict, unconsciously allowing the inner conflict, really deeply listening and tuning in, getting to really 'know thy self' (mentally, emotionally, energetically and physically), which you can only do by being attuned to all aspects of yourself, balancing and harmonising the inner conflict as it arises, metabolising, digesting and integrating it..gleaning the wisdom (which is its purpose in being) THEN being our most centred, integrated and authentic expression in communication with others.


As we evolve through a life lesson/ challenge we need to allow ourselves (give ourselves space and time) to integrate mind, body, spirit i.e mentally, emotionally, physically, energetically. This is recalibration and our systems naturally have the capacity to do this,( it's their purpose :)). Of course they do. They are from Source/ God itself! The intelligent orchestrator of the natural flow of all existence!


When the complete integration has taken place our nervous system heals, attunes, balances and evolves. Life then takes us to the next phase of learning....and so it goes....infinitely :).


We are trained out of our gut instincts and authentic expression (God within) as children (as we are attuned to the 'matrix' of mind), so triggers, conflicting energies or perspectives or potential to evolve become stuck traumas in the body and are avoided at all costs. As we are further attuned away from our gut instincts we move away from the God within, we start to feel unsafe, doubt creeps in, we lose trust in our gut, our primal intuition. Throughout our life journey in 'thought' we move further and further away from ourselves, our gut, God within, presence, the HERE and NOW. We seek the balance, equilibrium and safety of our inner Being EVERYWHERE in the projected world outside ourselves..paradoxically it's always remained inside :).


Your perpetual unease is just backlog of unexplored...unintegrated potential wisdom :)....


Be brave...venture inside your own Being :)......


Only HERE will you truly FEEL alive!



 
 
 

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