Where Does My SELF Reside?

How the Formless Comes Into Form 

I often play a game called: where does myself reside? I play it in order to determine where ME exists within my body, or if it even does at all.  

If I were to remove one of my legs, would I still be me? If I removed both legs would I still be me? How about my arms? Of course I would.

My arms and legs do not define who I am. Without them, my identity, consciousness, memories and personality still remain unchanged. Do I reside in my pelvis? Which organ defines who I truly am? Do I reside solely in my thinking head? 

I am not any of these things. I believe that mySELF resides beyond my physical body. People who have near death experiences report a separation from their body, yet they are still aware of their existence.  

It's the same as when I have an out-of-body experience. I am outside of myself and yet I am still myself.

It's an interesting mind game. And I play it when I forget that I am more than what I see when I look in the mirror. 

It reminds me that I am what I think I am. My self-conception defines who I am. And since I am more than the physical pieces that make up my body, then I am also my thoughts my feelings, my opinions, my preferences, and my personality.

But of course, that begs the question, where do those things come from?  It's a complex question which has been pondered for centuries.  

Thoughts carry an energetic signature that can influence the surrounding environment. 

You've heard the phrase:  thoughts are things. And certainly you have experienced how thoughts can influence your body. (Butterflies in the stomach, a gasp of breath.) Consider how a stressful thought can worsen an illness, or how fear can lead you to a fight or flight response.

A thought can trigger a chain reaction that contracts your muscles or makes your heart beat faster. One single thought can get you sexually aroused, which stimulates a whole host of physical reactions within your body.  

Thoughts are things.They have an energy that  directly influences your experiences. 

Universal Energy 

You've all experienced being around someone who drains your energy. (Ever experience an energy vampire?) Or someone who's extremely positive who, without even trying, boosts you up. A calm person makes you feel calm. Someone who's frantic, makes you agitated.  

We are all interconnected within a larger energy field. And our thoughts and intentions, which are considered forms of information, can manifest at the subtlest level of existence and get transmitted, like a radio signal, out to everything and everyone around you. 

Your thoughts contribute to your connection with the universal field of energy. 

So, if thoughts are things, and we are continually interacting and engaging with the people around us, then our connected energies are creating the reality we experience, 

This is important because it means that what you think affects how you feel. If you can change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.  

Unfortunately, much of our thoughts are below our conscious awareness. They pop into our minds and we respond unconsciously and automatically.  

The Triggered Response 

If an experience occurs that reminds us of a past event, we react as if on autopilot. These are called triggered responses. They are anything that we react to subconsciously. If someone does or says something and you react with an intense or unexpected reaction, that's a triggered response.  

Triggers can be something you see, smell, taste, something you hear, something someone else does or says. Your reaction to it is linked to your past experiences or a particularly trauma, which causes you to think you are reliving those experiences.

You subconsciously try to avoid further harm so you begin to panic or feeling unsafe. Your heartbeat might go up. You may have difficulty breathing, or any host of anxiety responses. You may feel like you can't control your emotions. You may want to run away. 

It's when you can notice that you've been triggered, that you can start to change the behavior associated with that trigger.  

It's no fun living with triggered responses, especially when they disrupt your life and you can't understand why you're feeling the way you do, or responding the way you are.  

Understanding where these triggers originated is key to managing and ultimately releasing them.  

Understanding where these triggers originated is key to managing an ultimately releasing them. That's where dream analysis comes in. Your dreams point out your triggers.

They point out where that trigger is situated in your past experiences. Most often a trigger develop when you were a child, and you have lived with that triggered response your whole life without even recognizing that it was there. And you didn't recognize it was there because you were living inside of it. (Does a fish know he's living in water?) It become a part of who you identify as.  

And don't think that your dreams will forget to tell you. Your dreams will be telling you the same thing over and over, for years and years, maybe your whole life, until you correct and heal the issues.  

You Can Change  

Once you become aware of where your triggers originate, you can begin a process of releasing them. The process of cutting the ties (CTT) is one of the most effective ways to do this.

Using a combination of dream analysis and meditation, you release the influences that created the triggered reaction. The results are permanent and can change the way you live your life. 

The process of healing is monumentally rewarding. It can change the way you feel in everyday life. It changes the way you react to things. It balances your masculine and feminine energies; and it changes your self worth, and your confidence.

The process of healing through both Dream analysis  and Cutting the Ties will have a profound effect on your life. 

So if you are what you think you are, and what you think can change, then you can change.