Brenda. Anything that’s brought into our conscious mind is no longer in the unconscious mind, unconscious driving us. So for instance say you have a belief system: “my life is a struggle”. At some point you saw that when you struggled you were really well rewarded, then the correlation and the convoluted pathway that the mind takes is: “struggle is good because it will bring me rewards”. So we will continue to see life as struggle and then of course the mind will have the opposite, “struggle is bad”, because inside of “struggle” we always feel like that’s not a really good position to be in. And you know therein lies the conflict. So what’s your question again Christine?
Christine. How is the process of bringing the unconscious belief into consciousness helpful?
Brenda. Well, simply that awareness, as soon as we have awareness about something we feel different about it don’t we? It is that simple and said another way, if you have a new job and you don’t have a job description, you just show up and you sorta don’t know what you’re doing you’re gonna stand around there wondering what you’re doing. And so the next day you get handed a job description and you read it. Now you have new awareness. It changes totally how you feel about that job. The day before you were stressing out and hating it because you didn’t know what to do and now you’ve got information that has changed how you feel about it. So awareness, what it does for one thing is always shows us that we are what we accuse the other of.
Christine. Now how does that relate in a Body Talk session?
Brenda. How do you mean?
Christine. Well I think there’s just so much detail in terms of practitioners learning to be practitioners. I mean personally I remember my mind trying to guess what the next links would be and the feeling of total crisis if I didn’t guess right, the feeling of crisis if the outcome for the session wasn’t what I thought it should be, the feeling like we know what’s right for other people in Body Talk sessions, and it even goes into again not staying present and it gets in the way even I think of starting up practices as Body Talkers.
Brenda. Well really Christine every person on the planet is wounded because their true nature is not at the forefront, they’re not living from that place. They’re living from those wounds we get when we were little. Christine you be a good girl, Christine don’t you be mean, Christine that was selfish, Christine stop being so rude. So we’ve divided energy that is not two. Rude and polite/mean and kind. So this is the way the mind works now in that conflicting state. So we bring our wounded self to everything, to a relationship, to Body Talk. And as we do this work the wound is healed and true nature is revealed. So true nature is revealed to us once we’re healed of these wounds.
Christine. So that Body Talk and Breakthrough, there’s no separation in terms of who Body Talk helps or who Breakthrough helps. It helps self and others constantly. Or healed maybe is better than help.
Brenda. Yes that’s true on one level and on another level there’s nothing wrong.
Christine. This is the thing, there’s a projection in Body Talk, I know a lot of Body Talkers. It’s the idea of being in service, I’ve got it, the idea of helping, of knowing what’s right for other people, and again these sort of scripts that aren’t serving us. It’s interesting it’s one of the things that really comes up when you start to really get into Body Talk, are those scripts.
Brenda. The less you know the better your sessions are. The less you think you know the more fantastic the healing is. The clearer your mind, it means you’re not projecting your conditioned self onto the other and they therefore are getting a clear mirror and they therefore now, we’re in true service to each other because now I as the patient or client can see what I need to be healing myself with and we’ll get to it. If I’m playing the projection game with you then that’s what we’ll do during the session, and yes there may be some results but do you really want to just settle with that when we’ve got a whole life that could be so fantastic ahead of us? If we do our own work then we bring this to every relationship, not just in the healing realm but to our partners and to our children, and we stop teaching our children the cultural prescription and prolonging the misery of all of humanity.
Christine. And it shifts the universe on levels that you can’t even describe.
Brenda. Well the way I see that, and I don’t know if I’m right or wrong it’s just my feeling, is that when one of us becomes clearer, when one of us resolves an issue, then that’s projected to collective consciousness. Collective consciousness changes and collective consciousness is also projecting to us, it’s circular. And therefore every time one of us does, is able to integrate an unintegrated aspect of our psyche and therefore become whole, then the collective consciousness is one step closer to that and that reflects back to us. It’s evolution in my mind, the most beautiful evolution.
Christine. This is like matrix building.
Brenda. Yes and it’s consciousness medicine.
Christine. Mm hmm.
Brenda. It is.
