If you are experiencing pain now, you can learn to use Alchemy to shift your state, realize what is actually causing your pain right now, and access the wisdom you need to heal.
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This is a clip from one of Cindy’s Ego Workshop live broadcasts. You can join the Ego Workshop here: http://egoworkshop.com
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Question: A child can’t know anything about who they are unless taught it, they wouldn’t even know to have a name unless given one and taught it. If a child is abused that is all they would know. They couldn’t know something else about their identity. A story? OK , It never happened? Hmmmm! That isn’t logical. For no reason at all I decided, as a child, to make up a story of abuse and neglect and my sense of self molded into a garbage heap. That there may be a way out of these hellish experiences and being taught your trash, that’s wonderful. That it’s just a story I told myself or made up I’m not buying. That it wasn’t horrifying and painful I’m not buying, either. Tell someone who lost a limb in the Boston Marathon and is trying on a Prosthesis for the lost limb that it never happened. There are some holes in what you teach or at least as I understand it. Thanks for any clarification you can offer.
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Hi Charla,
Thanks for visiting and asking for clarity. One easy clearing: I am not saying to say, “it didn’t happen.”
Bear in mind that in this live broadcast, I am replying to an adult who has asked this question. To clarify their question, it would be: “Does my sadness (now) stem from a violent childhood (in the past)?”
Our sadness now stems from something happening now. Not from something called “my violent childhood” which is not (happening) here and now. If we believe the idea (a.k.a story) that the past means I must suffer now, then we are stuck forever, because you can’t change the past. It’s not the past that is affecting someone now, because the past doesn’t exist now.
It must be something happening now. What exists now that is causing the pain is unconscious replaying of the movie “of the past” now, which includes stories created and stored then, and added since then. While it was formed then, you can’t go back and “undo” what happened. Nor, thank-God, is it needed.
We must pay attention to the now, to see what it is that is happening now, and deal with it here and now. Even though these movies playing now are of past memories, it’s still a movie now playing. The past is not hurting us now. It is the unconscious engagement with the movie in the mind (stories, photos, movies, mental sounds, sights, tastes even) that is playing now which hurts us. And not something called “the past,” which is in fact actually is only a memory in the mind–and has no reality now.
The events of the story, the memory, the movie, is only playing in the mind and no where else. It’s much like watching a movie in a theatre, seeing a building burn down, and thinking its real and running out of the theater screaming *fire!* Did the fire happen now? Do we need to throw water on it? Certainly there was a fire happening at some point, as it was recorded. But it’s not happening now. It only exists as a movie, a story, playing now.
Ignorance that there is a movie playing at all, confusing it with reality, trading it for reality, plus add in the belief that we have to suffer now because of what happened then–and it’s no wonder we can become crippled.
The way out of this is to wake-up from the nightmare daydream. Now.
When we do that, we can see that the errors made as a child in forming beliefs about themselves and the world, in self-defense (which may have helped at the time, do not work so well as an adult) need to be discarded. Otherwise we will continue to abuse ourselves (in our mind, which abuses the body) while there is no abuse being inflicted by others.
This cannot be seen right away; one must do the work to free themselves.
Cindy
PS–There are people who have lost limbs in violence, and said it was the greatest gift in their lives, for they finally really started to live. There are many inspiring stories out there. It’s not what happens to us on the outside, but what we do with it on the inside that counts.