Memory. Some of our memories are "good", some are "bad", and often most of our memory fades with age into a pleasant nostalgic glow. So far the scientists and MD's haven't really been able to determine where those sets of memories are stored, how they are stored, or how we access them. There is research indicating that certain types of memories disappear when certain areas of the brain are damaged. There is no research showing anything conclusive as to why that happens. The closest that anyone has come to a theory of how memory operates is the theory that memory is stored somehow in the ionic balance of cellular H2O.
I propose that memory exists as four types of recorded data:
Everything that IS registers first with your energy field, your "aura". Everything has an energy field and as you move through your daily life your field and many other fields come into contact. Wherever fields come into contact there is interaction. These interactions create changes in the flow and balances of your field. As you walk through your day you create a record of everything that happens (not just the things that you consciously notice) in your energy field. There will be minute remnants of each vibration with which you've interacted as well as an overall change in your vibration.
Over time this is one of the ways that we adapt to places and people. Through interacting with the same sets of vibrations our energy "tunes" itself to that set of fields. There is a long term change in your overall field that reflects qualities of the sets of fields you've been soaking up.
If you've been around higher vibrations then yours will gradually head in that direction. You will become more flowing and more loving. Your physical and mental health will improve. Overall life will be very happy.
If you are interacting with discordant, lower vibrations your field will tune to those. Unchecked this will lead to dis-ease, delusions, obsessions or just a general malaise. Energy memory is entirely dynamic which means it is easy to erase or rewrite. If you practice good chakra/energy field maintenance the lingering effects will be negligible. Regular rituals to cleanse the are necessary or the energetic changes simply build and your vibrations shift until something has to "give" and that something is usually something in the physical body. Yes, you get "sick".
At a very subtle level our Brain/Body/Energy system remedies imbalances between the three sets of records automatically. We will produce the conditions necessary to do so in whatever piece of the system requires balancing. If your energy field is weak you will become physically and mentally weak. Both brain and body will modify themselves as a matter of balance. Regular energy maintenance will remove negative impacts before they have a chance to transfer from an energy interaction to a physical manifestation.
Brain Memory is the type of memory we are most familiar with as a concept. It is what is usually meant by the casual term "memory". This is the electrochemical register of all incoming sensory data. Every detail of sensory awareness is recorded as it comes in. This includes the data from our energetic interactions with other energy fields.
This process seems to be entirely involuntary. Most people have one particular sense by which data is indexed. Which sense often varies with situation, time, or circumstances. The recorded data and the attendent results of processing it do not seem to remain in brain memory. I find that the brain seems to contain only the "index" to the location of information. Body Memory is the long term storage method for the record of our experiences. There is no long term storage in the brain at all.
The brain is entirely based on electrochemical interactions. Neurotransmitters and dendrites and all that good brain hardware that process billions of operations per second are wonderfully constructed. They make a very fast and efficient processing unit but a very poor long term storage medium. Electrochemical signatures have to be regenerated periodically to maintain their integrity or they decay and develop errors.
Brain memory may store what is called "short term" memory. Records of events occurring in a relatively short period of time would not be hard to store in the electrochemical matrix that is the dynamic brain. It stores event data that is in active processing.
It needs that information to work with. Brain memory is a sort of "dynamic storage". You have in your brain the memories that are being used to process something *because you are* processing it. Adding to the list tasks the brain is performing produces a slower and slower brain. All that information is held in dynamic storage while being processed. As a processing task is ended the results of the processing are added to the long term file associated with the task and the data.
The mass of "long term files" that is our memory needs to be stored in some way not so volatile. I think that this sense data along with the results of processing it are transferred to a physical record.
The physical record of memory is what I refer to as "body memory". It is recorded in your cells. How? The "water memory" theory I mentioned briefly is a good candidate. I am still studying this aspect.
We need to start with how this body memory initializes a memory record. The events of your life are recorded by your body and stored. What seems to be stored first in Body Memory is a kinesthetic record of events. That is, the "body feel" as well as the experience itself. Exactly what your body felt and did and experienced and reacted to is indelibly inked into the physical fabric of your body. The sense data associated with an experience is attached to that direct experience record of the event. Then the results of whatever processing that your brain has done/is doing/needs to do in the future is added to the file. A Body Memory record is all of this information. I have explored this in my own being and in my healing work.
Many people experience the return of some memory upon a certain touch to some part of the body, or upon finding our physical body in a situation that corresponds significantly to a previous situation. An old memory often surfaces in response to a smell, a sound, a sight, an energetic signature, or even a similar thought.
Awareness of any detailed picture is always the sum total of all of this information. The ability to focus on any one source and know just exactly what input you got is a skill and an art that must be developed. Likewise, when a memory resurfaces in response to some "trigger" it is seldom immediately apparent just which component of the memory was that trigger. It takes some searching.
Body Memory is very important in that a record of trauma or injury keeps sending "triggers", to the rest of the Body/Brain/Energy unit that an event is current. It keeps doing so periodically until the Body Memory of the event is called into the now and discharged.
You must tell your brain to STOP processing a task or it will continue to do so ad infinitum. Closure is important. A task will loop, forever using up processing capacity. Over time it will recursively generate other loops. I'd have to say that a lot of folks are functionally "brain dead" by the time that they reach young adulthood. Their brains are frantically processing twenty or twenty five years of looping data chains. It continues and grows until you take steps to stop not only the processing loops but to process out the Body Memory Trigger that has been keeping it current.
We stop this by finding *what the loops are* and then proceeding to bring them to closure, arbitrarily if need be. Once the cellular memory of an event is triggered one must re-experience the event while re-imprinting that the event is not happening now. The currency of the memory is discharged. It erases the emotional register within the memory that tags it as NOW.
We often simply need to take note of what stage of given task is in and make the process conscious. In almost everything we go through five stages:
They are not necessarily in order but all five will be present if just for a nanosecond. With a little practice you'll even notice that within each stage are all five stages in microcosm.
Sometimes we zip through all five stages with no problem. Other times we stall at one of them, looping through it again and again often with a variation each time so it seems different. One may go back and forth between two (or occasionally more) stages for quite some time. This is another sign of a loop.
The key to closing out any stage is
Allow yourself to fully experience the feelings that are present and express them in some appropriate way. Don't hold back. If necessary, force a little more intensity into the emotions that rise to the surface. I call this "turning up the volume. "Turn up the volume" on the feelings you are expressing and it will speed the process immensely.
You may find yourself having to do this process again and again for any specific trigger that you are processing out. As I mentioned above, within each stage are all five stages. It will seem, at times, as though you have reached completion only to realize later that you are still processing the same trigger. Just keep on with it. Eventually the whole process becomes second nature to you and occurs at a subtle level not requiring your conscious awareness.
The same principle is the key to avoiding "brain loops" altogether. The more often you let it flow and let it go the fewer looping tasks your brain acquires. Eventually it becomes routine. You'll find yourself letting flow and letting go without conscious awareness of it.
You have to process Body Memories because the "trigger" that signals the brain that a memory is current will still be active and it will start a new loop. Once the Body Memory trigger is deactivated through the type of process described above the trigger is removed and the loop is gone for good.
The Akashic Record is the energetic impression that your existence makes on the universe. Your entire existence, not just this particular time being physical. All the interactions of any lifetime you've had anywhere are threads in weave of vibrations that is your energy signature on the universe. The Akashic Record is the cumulative effect of your vibration existing and interacting with the energy field of the universe itself. Here too, we may have "trigger" signals that through your energy field will signal the Body/Brain/Energy unit that an event is current. That's why we have lessons to learn from past lifetimes and events from other lives that must be relived. We must process them out to remove that trigger an move on.
It's all a set of interlocking, recursive, systems. Each system effecting all the others in some way. There are roughly 27 ways that these three types of memory interact and each of them can work to keep you clear of loops and centered in the now or recursively trigger loops and erroneous records. They must all be balanced with one another and with the sensory input you receive.
Copyright 1997 Dave Huntington
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