Storing Past Life Trauma in the Physical Body

Greetings! This post was inspired by a recent experience I had regarding the unexpected release of a past life incident. I am in the process of treating and healing chronic low back pain through various therapies. In a recent session with a massage therapist we did some intense and deep psoas release work. If you're not familiar with the psoas muscle, it is located very deep within the body, has the tendency to hold a lot of emotional energy, and is typically pretty intense to work with. During this session, the therapist hit some sort of emotional trigger point and I unexpectedly had a huge release of a past life trauma. Tears began to flow uncontrollably as the energy released and I saw an entire scene of brutalization that I experienced in some past life experience.

Following the session, the therapist and I were talking it over and we began wondering if ALL past life experiences are stored in our current physical bodies and if so is it possible to release it all. I kept thinking about this as days went on and the more I considered it the more confused I got! I turned to my guides and asked a series of questions around this and below is that correspondence. I'm only slightly less confused as I feel this is one of those topics that once delved into only brings up more questions! But I think we're scratching the surface here and I'd like to share with you what I received. Please feel free to post or send me any other questions that might come up around this and I'll see what the guides have to say.

*The numbers used to describe the energetic range that the human plane runs (i.e., 200-800 MHz) were randomly chosen as an example and not necessarily a reflection of the true numbers that represent this range.

Do souls who cross over release the traumas from the incarnation?

"There is a misconception that when a soul leaves the body it is automatically "enlightened" and this, using your definition of enlightened, is not necessarily true. The soul will indeed go into a different vibratory state and one that differs from the vibration of the physical plane. What is 'released' when a soul crosses over is the lower vibratory emotions that do not resonate on the other side. A soul will not experience emotions such as hatred, anger, greed, envy, and so on because those are vibrations that do not exist in the vibratory space we call 'the other side'. That said, what can still remain within a soul's energy field is experience. If for example, a soul experienced torture in its physical incarnation, this experience will remain in its field as intelligence of the experience itself. This experience will possibly be 'tapped into' in another incarnation because the intelligence of that experience always remains. Just as you have intelligence of your childhood--memories of riding a bike perhaps, going to school, playing with certain chums. These are not current experiences in your life but still they are part of your overall awareness. As the soul maintains an overall awareness of all experiences it has had, that intelligence can and certainly does permeate 'future' incarnations as that intelligence is impressed upon the cells, subconscious, and sometimes conscious levels of the person."


Do all past life traumas get stored in the physical body? Do we have cell memory of every painful event/death we have ever experienced?

"It is possible to store past traumas at the cellular, ergo physical level, but not necessarily ALL physical traumas are relevant and thereby activated within the current physical body. Often when something is stored in the physical body that has past life connections it is because healing has not taken place energetically regarding this event. When one leaves the body via death, the energetic body maintains within it information from all incarnations. If the energetic body does not release a particular experience it can be carried over to another physical body upon a new incarnation. The energetic body will imprint the physical body with the knowledge it has within it. This is why some people have fears and phobias stemming from previous life experiences; their energetic body has imprinted such memories within the physical body at the cellular level and the physical body will have a valid biological response in the face of particular stimuli associated with those phobias.

The energetic body carries with it intelligence of ALL experiences it has ever been a part of--both physically and non-physically. When one takes on a physical form, the energetic body will imprint to some extent that intelligence upon the physical structure, although much of that information remains in the energetic field. To what degree that information shows up in the physical body is determined by the persons current life path, circumstances, and emotional make-up. A person who incarnates will do so operating on a particular vibrational spectrum. For example, if the entire range of human potential runs from 200-800 megahertz (MHz)* a person incarnating will experience only a partial segment of that range. So perhaps in this current lifetime you are running the range from 450-600 MHz. This means the emotions, thoughts, and actions you experience will resonate within that range. If for instance, murderous rage is an emotion that exists only with the 300-350 MHz range, you will not experience this because you are operating within a completely different range. So as you come into each incarnation vibrating within a particular range of a larger spectrum, you will have activated in you things that are relevant to that particular frequency.

Let's take an example to look at this more clearly. If you, in your current incarnation, are dealing with issues around speaking your truth (fears of speaking your voice, being heard, being judged or punished for what you say, etc) then you may have within you some awareness/activation of past life situations that correlate with this. If you in a past incarnation were killed for speaking your voice then this might show up for you in the current incarnation. This trauma, being relevant and activated within the current incarnation can show up in the body. When a person is still working on issues that have relevance to other lives, former experiences around this particular issue may be activated in the body. When we say 'activated' we mean the intelligence of the energetic body, as it imprints in the physical body, regarding those particular issues can be received by the cells of the body and the body may respond accordingly. This does not always take place at the conscious level. Some people will have no idea they are storing a past life trauma until it is activated/released through some sort of stimuli (current trauma, bodywork, energy work, etc.). Upon becoming aware of a past life trauma, the event itself may not make any sense but upon closer inspection there will be some correlating factor to the person's present experience."

How do we clear past life trauma? Is it beneficial to?

"What we would recommend in response to this question is being focused on your present experience and doing everything you can to grow into love and out of fear. The growth you have now affects all of your experiences (multidimensionally) and can serve to clear past traumas still in need of release. Being focused on the present and how you can heal and grow is more beneficial than attempting to discover, uncover, and release all past life triggers and/or traumas. Please remember--the conscious mind does not have the level of awareness that your soul, or Higher Self, does. If you, at the conscious level, would be unable to handle tuning into a specific past life incident it would not behoove you to try to do so. Oftentimes past experiences are cleared without conscious awareness. You don't need to be on the active seeking path of discovering all past life triggers and traumas that may not have been released yet. If something needs to be addressed, it will be. You will be guided by present life circumstances to that healing."



With Love,
~heather

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