A look at traumas, attachments and beliefs with regard to their role as issues of limitation

• What is a Trauma?

• What is an Attachment?

  • Attachments to people, beings, guides

  • Attachments to things, objects

  • Attachments to ideas , beliefs, models, philosophies

• Exploring the presentation of limiting issues?

  • General Signs of limiting Issues

  • Relationship Signs

  • Emotional Signs

  • Life Situation Signs

  • Approaches to Life Signs

A trauma is any situation where you experience physical, emotional, mental or spiritual extremes causing shock and debilitation.

Examples; Your family being gunned down in front of you. Being forcibly taken from your homeland and enslaved. Humiliated and raped. Involved in a devastating accident. Close relationship finishing with no prior warning. Trauma in this sense occurs when your normal day to day reality is ripped apart very quickly, tragically and painfully. And here when we talk about day to day reality we mean any day to day that any form of yourself is having in any reality and on any level within ALL THAT YOU ARE. So, you can experience a trauma in this life, traumas in past lives as a human, traumas within other existences within the soul fragment arena of experience and traumas within the various levels found within your pure soul form existences.

Traumas shock your energy systems and effect not only who you are within the existence it originally occurred, but they often either directly or indirectly effect you in following existences too. The higher the level and the more traumatic it is the greater the effect is experienced on all following existences within all levels until it is resolved. This human existences now is interesting as the lives we are having now reflect very strongly what we have and are doing else where including traumas and so on.

Traumas leave scars in your energy field. So when you are faced with similar or even just potentially similar situations it may re-activate the original shock bringing its effects and symptoms to the surface. This happens whether you are aware of the original or not. We have found that in line with the overall preferences within society for approaches offering painless, exploreless and symptomless results then this is (on the whole) what the newly presented therapies and energy systems offer too, they simply have a different approach. So, therapies get rid of the symptoms or prevent triggering in similar circumstances simply by pushing the trauma deeper into the energy field and sealing it off or doing the equivalent of extractive surgery to remove the malignant energy. This for us is simply a soft spiritual or new age cosmetic solution that will result in greater long term debilitation and more limiting issues.

How do traumas relate to issues? Well lets give an example and follow it though. A trauma of being savagely raped would result in a range of issues depending on the circumstances and your strength of character at that time. Issues that could arise in this situation would include problems with relationships, difficulty expressing or receiving affection, difficulty being sexual, low self esteem, low self confidence, reactions of anger, hate, frustration, depression, not feeling safe in the presence of beings with a similar energy to the being that caused the original trauma, difficulty of expressing yourself, feeling isolated, not being able to connect deeply with people and more.

So, someone may have a subset of these symptoms. However unless you explore the origins of these symptoms and deal with it through understanding the original circumstances then you wont get a lasting solution. Also for example these symptoms may possible have arisen as the result of an abuse as a SOUL (Yes as a SOUL) AT SOUL LEVEL. This situation may have (almost certainly) repeated within various existences. So, dealing with the human held trauma or even the traumas held within past human existences or even all the repeated traumas within all the soul fragment existences dealing with any or in fact all of these will still not get to the origin and will not prevent it from happening again. As the majority of therapies are simply dealing with the symptoms, have no intention to explore absolute origins unhampered by beliefs then the result is a band aid job which might last a few years or even a few lifetimes.

As the effects of unresolved traumas are very often carried over and expressed in following existences then to understand more about the effects of burying and sealing traumas then read our other article that covers these areas in more detail here . .

An attachment is anything that holds you attention in some way. This can be a person, an object or an idea. Again this can happen in any existence, as a human, as any being within the soul fragment arena and also within all levels where your soul form lives and expresses itself in the existences it has at this high level.

Attachments to people.

These can happen in any existence and they can do so in any situation where you relate in any way at all to another being. They extend the full range from the extreme "I hate you and am going to get you back you bastard" through to the "We will love each other forever" which is, contrary to what you might think, equally debilitating. These can be more subtle with acquaintances, less than subtle with friends, and much stronger with lovers and enemies.

Attachments can also occur with someone you don't actually know and have never met. These range from the "Unrequited love" types to the dangerously jealous "your too nice (or effective or loving or strong or correct) so I am going to pull you down" - this one often results in what appears to be bad luck in this and future existences especially when there is a lot of focus (read obsession).

Contrary to popular belief within energy circles, attachments to people i.e. entity attachments or spirit attachments are not a sign that you have fallen, they are a sign that you are living, are not a hermit but you are freely interacting with other beings i.e. you are having some form of relationship (even if they are just day to day ones like saying good morning to the couple that run the corner shop or your lawyer who you only speak to on the phone) and your attention is attracted in some way by something about these people.

You can have attachments to beings on all levels and from all existences, and they will continue to exist until broken.

Attachments to things

Cars would be a good although trivial example for some people. A dangerous weapon. Beautiful gems. Money, Power (sort of a thing). What about your position as an arch bishop or as a teacher in a spiritual school. Or an attachment to the objects of office as the arch bishop. Residences are things people often get attached too - which is why we have ghosts.

Yet again these you will find on any level, and again in energy terms you can find people carrying things around that they picked up a long time ago. Power objects, amulets of protection, books of spells, your best jewellery anything that is just too good to leave behind. Or perhaps something entrusted to you for you to look after and your still doing it 10,000 life times later?

Attachments to ideas, beliefs and models

They effect your views of your reality, yourself and others very deeply as they often represent your core self (your soul) and they drive your behaviour, values, ethics and approaches to life, living and relationships. They are the most difficult to become aware of, and they are also the most important to understand as they hold your greatest limitations.

Look around you . . . Understand the range of beliefs presented here? This is not just a facet of human living. This reality is a representation of the diversity that is lived and the beliefs and ideas discussed, argued about and fought over on all levels including at the highest pure soul form levels. In fact it is at soul level where your deepest and for the most part unconscious ideas and beliefs originate. At soul level as here, your values, traditions, philosophies and ideas are taken on by association because they are an integral part of your soul culture. There as here you are also strongly influenced by those closest to you - your soul parents and extended family, your friends, your teachers. This is where your ideas originate about what is spiritual, what is good or bad, what is ethical and unethical and so on.

They are our greatest areas of challenge as they are also the deepest areas that you need to explore to deal with your most engrained and unconscious areas of limitation.

For us an issue is anything that makes you less than you can be, that locks you into a pattern (whether good or bad), that limits or controls your range of expression, your thinking, your feeling or that reduces the possibilities open to you of how you live your life.

We say "less than you can be" above as we now don't subscribe to the belief that souls are prefect. Having explored our own and many others, we now understand that it is a rare soul indeed that has any measure of balance. So, we are less interested in taking people into "all that they are" and much more interested in taking people way beyond who they are as a soul. That is, into "all that they can be" which offers unlimited possibilities.

There are obvious or lets say first level symptoms that are the outer signs that you have issues of limitation - lets look at these now:

General Signs

Feeling insecure, low self esteem, lacking in self confidence, cannot speak your truth, your life is not making you happy, you are not successful manifesting what you want, feeling unacknowledged, unloved.

Relationship Signs

Cannot get close to people even when you are close, cannot show or are uncomfortable with affection, cannot or are uncomfortable being sexual, certain things about people repulse you or people themselves repulse you, keeping a distance from people, staying on your own, not trusting good people, not trusting your self, trusting too much or inappropriately

Emotional Signs

Excessive emotional outbursts or reactions, depression, feelings of guilt, shame, anger, frustration towards yourself, cannot show what you feel, no spontaneity, indecisive - you don't know what you want, not able to feel some feelings (anger, hate, irritation, love, happiness, joy for example), not feeling anything, irrational fears / hates / anger / frustration and so on that seem to have no origin.

Life Situation Signs

Being hurt, or hurting yourself, having regular bad luck, relationships failing or not starting with no good reasons, business not starting or always failing, being overlooked for promotion, people not acknowledging you, being nasty to you, being abusive towards you, being violent, unreasonable, abandoned, particularly if this happens more than once. Repeating negative life patterns. Not living what you feel is right for you, work too hard, taking too much responsibility, lacking in self authority, cannot take responsibility, not feeling safe with certain people.

Approaches to Life Signs

Cannot be bothered, have no enthusiasm, not feeling good about the future. Listless, don't plan, not easy to get involved. Floating along.

Although we all go through periods where we hit extremes, if any of the above persist, then it would be worth while you honouring yourself to explore and resolve what is causing the symptoms. Yes, we understand that this can be frightening, particularly when part of you knows that something will be revealed that you may not want to look at.

Often, it has easier to do nothing as the discomfort you are experiencing is now comfortable simply because you are used to it. The devil you know is always much easier to stay with than the devil you don't?

Yes it can take courage, but paradoxically courage only comes through making difficult movements and succeeding.

Sometimes you need to take just one step at a time to build yourself up to make a small leap. A lot of small leaps make a big movement and give you practice to encourage you to make even bigger leaps.

 

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