Question:
Can you please explain about releasing memories that have left impressions in the body? I understand releasing unpleasant experiences that still traumatize us, but I don’t understand releasing good memories. You’ve often said that good memories are like money saved in the bank: they sustain us when we go through hard times.
The Seer:
I’m so glad you asked this question because I regrettably didn’t make myself clear. Yes, you’re right, good memories help lighten the hardships we may experience along our eternal journey.
I was specifically referring to good memories that define us; that affirm a particular identity for us. Our assumed identities trap the awareness and stunt our eternal growth and evolution. When we identify with achievements, it keeps us from achieving even more than we could imagine. When the accolades of others are allowed to define us, we tend to emphasize that part of our expression that gets affirmed, rather than venture into the unfamiliar beyond our comfort zone. It is in developing new and unfamiliar avenues of expression, that we strengthen our self-confidence, increase our vitality, and broaden our vistas. It is in choosing to live in the strong currents of the waters of the river of life, where the waters of experience are always new, that we truly get to know our strengths, rather than to linger in the sluggish waters of the marsh of familiar past achievements. I have hopefully succeeded in making my statements a bit clearer when I advise that we not only release “bad” memories but also some good ones; the good ones that could trap us behind the prison bars of identity.
More from The Seer:
Oh! Thank you for passing this question along. Thank you Almine for the thorough response. I see the picture more clearly now. Much gratitude.
There is much to ponder here.
I have often noticed this among groups of friends who are ‘on a spiritual path’, devotees of some meditation techniques or of former spirital teachers. These techniques, along with personal or group initiations, imparted a seemingly transcendant experience. The goal being transfiguration. These might be fleeting or the ‘state of grace’ might last weeks, months…before wearing off. Then these ‘highs’ became a defining moment, a treasured period of their lives.
Is it that the more they identify with such experiences as an indication of their own value, the less likely they are to live enduringly from their greater Self?
The worrying aspect though is that these more transfiguring states have been imprinted by the egregor of the teacher into those using his method. The ‘visions’ then are illusions, like the poetry written in a 19th century opium den. Self-sovereignty is forfeited.
This is more troubling than the professor’s tendency to define herself by her Phd, even after retirement. Once revealed career identification can be dropped, with a resulting sense of freedom rather than of loss.
I thought of this, too! I’ve not been immune to this kind of trap. Allowing my life to be guided and defined by the sometimes intoxicating faux zeniths of transitory states of enlightenment. It felt more real than chasing or attaching to things in the physical world and yet I was striving for something that was rooted in a memory which perhaps is even less real!
Thank you for sharing this and giving me something to reflect upon.
Thank you so very much for this message. It is such a help and encouragement to me as I tend to fear change. Going out of my comfort zone is a huge challenge to me right now as I have just retired from my job.
YES, thank you!
Thankyou for the clarity on this, Almine.
I am greatful to the one who asked this question 💖