We will never be free of our identification with the body as long as we are afraid of the body. We must learn how to be in the body but not of the body in order to fully awaken during our incarnation.

Early life conditions that generate developmental and complex trauma tend to encourage the child to disassociate from the body because of distressing sensations that are not being attended to by our caregivers, for whatever reason. This causes the conscious Soul to not fully embody and identify with the body totally. Over the years the pressure from this internal conflict of not feeling comfortable in our own skin compels many people to pursue spiritual practices that achieve altered, expanded and disembodied states of consciousness.

Trauma therapy sees this state as dissociation and seeks to help the individual become re-identified and grounded within the body in order to live a “normal” life. Spiritual practices seek to help the conscious Soul to realize that it is not a body and to regain the natural state of oneness with All That Is. Yet spiritual practices often fail to understand that as long as a being is afraid of their body they will never be able to totally dis-identify with it and will likely experience extreme vacillations between expanded and collapsed states.

Through directed self awareness I have been able to witness that a similar state of expansion happens with both dissociation and awakening, the difference being whether it is prompted by fear or relaxation. So the goal then is not to eliminate the expanded state, but rather to uncouple it from the fear that was the early catalyst for it arising in the first place.

So what if the very experience of early life trauma primes the incarnated Soul for potential awakening? What if we have a greater proclivity for conscious awakening IF we are able to uncouple the experience from the survival fear that initiated it in the first place. In some instances it is facing the fear of imminent death that finally and potentially permanently breaks the link between consciousness and the survival/fear response. So then, our ability to learn to calmly witness our somatic sensations, including dissociation, without judging them or getting lost in them is the doorway to uncoupling them from the fear that fuels the egoic cycles of expansion and collapse, thereby facilitating our conscious awakening. Then we truly can be in the body, but not of the body.

Sharing an incredible free resource to assist you in rewiring your brain to help your mind awaken. This is profoundly practical and effective information and processes that anyone can do, from a total novice to someone with decades of spiritual and awakening experience. Rick Hansen combines the revolutionary breakthroughs of current neuroscience and combines it with spiritual principles to offer a simple process that can assist any of us in discovering the peace, vitality and purpose within us. 

The link below offers a series of simple meditations that you can utilize along with any other form of practice or exploration you may already be doing. This is especially useful for anyone who has suffered trauma and negative conditioning, especially developmental trauma from adverse early life conditions, because the tendency is for the nervous system and brain to get stuck in a negative feedback loop. All you have to do is try one of these meditations to immediately feel a shift toward greater wellbeing.

Rick will also be offering a new online course that will guide you on this healing journey beginning in October of 2014. It is a year long commitment, but it is offered for only $25/month, so he is really intending for it to be available to pretty much anyone who really wants to heal and grow and transform. And it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. For more information visit http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/foundations-program/.