Unconscious
_I: Fear, Shame, Guilt, Resentment, Rage, Frustration, Desire, Preconception, Belief, Confusion, Lie, Dependency, Condition, Loss, Arrogance, Selfishness, Victimism, Inconsistency, Betrayal, Depression, Nostalgia...
_AM: Are you writing a shopping list?
_I: Hehe... No. I try to remember everything that I have felt inside me and that I don't like to have inside...
_AM: …Denial, Escape, Illusion, Dependency, Attachment, Masochism, Banality… and the list goes on…
_I: How to catalog all this?
_AM: Like the force that drives you.
_I: Huh?
_AM: Each of these words are not aspects that you should eliminate, they are simply the title of a story. And you are the book where all those stories are written. Each word is the title of a chapter. What would history be without knots, without conflicts or problems to solve?
_I: A boring, tedious and almost scientifically descriptive narrative.
_AM: It would stop being a cautionary tale, an inspiring story, and become a doctoral thesis. It is the knots that create great stories, and it is the nodes of the network that, by creating tension, give meaning to unity. Without all those titles, you would have no motivation in life.
_I: Motivation… In the hidden and dense…
_AM: The only reason that promotes evolution is conflict in a specific context. The only thing that drives you forward is wanting to leave something behind. Without conflict you do not understand where the error is, without error there is no solution, without solution there is no growth, there is no development, there is no evolution. When you mention these words, you usually consider them weeds that must be eradicated from the ground, however, they are precisely the weeds that encourage you to grow taller, to find the light and discover the potential you had to expand. In the word Fear, there is hidden a story of fear of something that happened, unexpected, that put my being in maximum state, that gave me an experience. Resentment is the title of a frustrated relationship that holds within itself many experiences of love and heartbreak. Confusion is the story of a search in which several options are discovered. If you go one by one, these emotions do not occur out of nowhere and just because, but rather they are the result of a story that has built who you are and has brought you to where you are. Just like when you read a story, page after page you see the problem increase until conflict is generated, and when you see it arrive, there is a force in you that drives you to continue reading.
_I: …Because one wants to know how it is resolved…
_AM: It is difficult to leave stories open in a human mind, which is why the brain tries to look for similar situations over and over again to remember that said conflict was not resolved, and uses the title of the unfinished chapter as the emotion that motivates us to continue reading. the following pages.
_I: Oh... Now I understand it well... It happens that, in general, we tend to want to get rid of these emotions that harm us...
_AM: That's why you hide them in the Unconscious, you don't want to know anything about it, you prefer to keep it. It is logical to be afraid of what may happen, like someone who loves the characters in a story, and when faced with the conflictive narrative, they begin to smell that the death of said character is approaching, and refuse to read how the chapter ends. Thus he closes the book, leaving an open, unfinished story. If you do that with every book in your subconscious library, there will be many unfinished stories left in your unconscious.
_I: And that's why we repeat them over and over again... How?
_AM: The brain was designed to respond with reactions to environmental stimuli. When a stimulus of pleasure occurs, it responds with joy, when a stimulus of pain occurs, it responds with suffering. For millions of years, the nervous system dedicated itself to making a complex record of reactions for every possible circumstance. Some were naturalized to the point that they became part of an autonomous system, in which no thought or conscious order is required, such as the heartbeat, breathing, the functioning of the kidneys and intestines, as well as every organ in your body. Each part of your body was shaped based on these conflicting reactions from the environment, which recorded the possible responses in its cellular memory. Thus, hormones were developed as response activation mechanisms, as a communication between the organs and the central nervous system. These hormonal impulse responses are what you call Emotion.
_I: What is emotion?
_AM: It comes from the Latin “ex-motio” (from movement), alluding to the fact that it is something that arises from a response that mobilizes us. For example: one day you were sad as a child, and your mother, to make you happy, gave you chocolate. The sugars filled your blood, turning on the motor of the pancreas secreting insulin, which sought out the sugars to convert them into energy that the cell consumed. This raised the body's energy, producing an immediate reaction of activity, that is, the veins and arteries dilate, causing the heart to accelerate. To counteract a possible heart attack, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in the brain secrete serotonin and endorphins, which calm the heart rate, giving a feeling of relaxation and pleasure. The sensation is therefore equated to a relaxing yet active heat, a hormonal mix that generates the perfect cocktail to feel the emotion of love. During the years of your life, you will identify chocolate with love, sweetness with pleasure, but at the same time, you will remember it as an immediate response to sadness. Your brain is in charge of managing this data in a place where you do not need to think this every time you see the chocolate, just feel it, and the entire system will activate it_I: first the pancreas, asking to eat it, and then the hypothalamus telling you that that will make us feel good. That “place” where the data is kept inside you is called “Unconscious”.
_I: I understand…
_AM: That example is replicated for millions of things in every cell and end of the body, to which for every pulse there is an impulse, for every conflict there is a response, for every action there is a reaction. For millions of years, and every day, the brain records possible responses, relating them to previous preconceived ones, with the aim of saving time and not having to think in case something similar happens. By turning to the emotion, the body will already know how to respond, without you thinking about it for a moment. This is the basis that generates everything you call “Psychosomatic”.
_I: That is, feeling in the body everything that is thought in the brain.
_AM: Psikhé (soul, mind) and Soma (body), are the Greek words that define in medicine and psychology the ability of the mind to manifest itself in matter.
_I: That's why we turn to Biodecoding to understand when something happens to our body...
_AM: Any external or internal conflict that appears in the body, whether it is an accident or an illness, are psychological response mechanisms, which are interpreted as brain reactions that indicate that there is something internal that is being mobilized, that is, that it is there being an emotion of which I am not aware, and therefore, I am unconscious. People generally fail to understand the close relationship between the mind and the body, and treat them as if they were separate things, as if the illness had nothing to do with what one thinks. How can you believe that a perfect organism that functions in excellent homeostasis, for millions of years forgot to take into account the relationship between what the neurons think with what the cells of the organs feel?
_I: Yes, the truth is that it is absurd to think about it separately.
_AM: But it was like that for centuries. To this day, in medicine, Psychology and Psychiatry are taken almost as pseudosciences, as if understanding the individual through his thoughts could not define or help understand his cellular reactions. The truth is that the largest percentage, 80% of what we are, what we do, what we act, is stored in the Unconscious.
_I: So we can understand that if we stub our finger, it has one meaning, if we catch a cold it has another meaning... Everything is cataloged in emotions, in stories within the body...
_AM: A physical conflict or illness is nothing more than the title of a story, of a chapter of your life. The body is the cover that shows the idea of the content that is hidden in the book, and the titles with the emotions that hide the stories that have given meaning to the narrative. In this way, you can understand that the brain, protecting all this data, when faced with a circumstance similar to one of those stories, will launch a memory reaction that enhances the title of a chapter, as if saying: “hey, feel this, like this.” "You will remember which story you didn't finish reading."
_I: Oh, wow... So every time we feel an emotion in a specific circumstance, it is simply the brain sending a signal to remind us through that emotion that this has already happened to us, and that in said chapter that we have denied is the narrative how the story continues... That is why we have to go to see the origin of emotions, the first time we feel it...
_AM: And by doing so, it doesn't mean that they will disappear from your life. It is normal to think that by resolving the issue of fear and knowing its origin, it would be ridiculous to feel afraid again, and yet, we have it again.
_I: Yes! That frustrates me a lot, because after so much inner work, I feel the same thing again... Why?
_AM: Because when you've finished reading a book, you don't burn it. You keep it on the corresponding shelf. Before the book was open and unfinished, collecting dust on the floor or a subconscious table under many other books stacked and disordered. When you deign to look at the book and finish reading the story of said emotion, recognizing it, you will not tear out the pages, but rather you will look for which shelf it goes on, you will clean it, and you will put it in its corresponding place so as not to lose it and resort to it as experience. Thus, once you have identified the story, when you feel the emotion again, you will know where to find it and how to resolve it consciously. The emotion will not disappear, but it will be used correctly, without entering into the crisis of not finding the book...
_I: Wow, I see it very clearly now… I understand… Yes.
_AM: Therefore, the conflicts that you do not like to have inside, it is necessary that they remain there, because they have made you what you are. The problem is not in having them, but in not knowing that you have them. When you let them dominate your life without any logic. What a spiritual being usually seeks is to free himself from these emotions, and therefore he continues lost in moral and dual struggles on his divine path, because he has emptied his library of books, losing the content and the notion of who he is. You are not just light, you are everything that makes you up. Subconscious and Unconscious, they make up the majority of you. A human being can never be fully conscious, since the physical body is not programmed to tolerate such a capacity. But the Conscious can benefit from the Unconscious.
_I: What would that be like?
_AM: Going back to the simple human example of a journey. The Conscious is the driver, the car is the Unconscious, and the landscape through which it moves is the Subconscious. The subconscious will not change, it will always be like this and its modification will take years or millions of millennia; and the unconscious will have its limitations, perhaps it cannot fly, it needs a specific fuel, perhaps it cannot go over certain terrain... But the conscious can decide to stop, go faster, slower, choose different paths, carry more or less luggage. , as well as making repairs to the car…
_I: Sure… So the Unconscious is like a tool to move forward.
_AM: That's right.
_I: We usually say that an Unconscious Being is someone negative, who does bad things.
_AM: An unconscious being is one who acts only by reaction, like an animal, it is based on very simple foundations, such as hunger, sleep, desire... And its emotions are very specific: fear, frustration, resentment, hatred, love... All their responses are given on impulse and not by conscious action, but by reaction. He does not know where what he feels comes from, and considers his actions as logical to his feelings. The unconscious being uses all the force of his inner hidden world to bring it to light, but he never brings light to his inner world.
_I: Oh… I see…
_AM: The conscious being, before reacting, seeks to bring light to its internal world, to understand the source of the fuel it will use to react. The Unconscious stores the same material that can move the world, or make it explode. Humanity, seen as a single organism, will always have at least 80% that will live from Unconsciousness. And 20% that will live from Consciousness. That's not a problem, it's nature. 80% generates the manifesting energy that the conscious is not able to obtain, but the conscious is capable of planning and guiding said raw material. Now, the big problem is when the great mass of Unconscious energy is guided by the willpower of another unconscious.
_I: As happens today with leaders, politicians, idols...
_AM: That's right. In most cases, they are unconscious with impulses that guide unconscious with great chaotic emotional charge.
_I: And how do you make it so that it is not like that, but rather that it is a conscious that guides that force?
_AM: The Conscious, precisely, cannot prompt the other to do its will, but the conscious will only look for a way to make the unconscious free to manifest its own inner strength, and not the will of the other. For this reason, a Conscious One must fully know what is hidden in his unconscious, and know how to use these tools in his individual life, recognizing all his shortcomings to convert them into inner power. Only in this way, from the freedom of his own unconsciousness, can he expand the freedom of the unconscious mass. Do not waste time wanting humanity to become Conscious, but put all your will into freeing them from those who use their strength for another Unconscious will.
_I: I understand... The Tyranny of Unconsciousness that governs each of us can come to dominate Unconscious societies.
_AM: That's right. Therefore, you need to self-govern your own unconscious, be able to face this great library and its nodal chapters, to bring clarity to every end of your being.
_I: To the entire Tree.
_AM: Its branches, its leaves, its rings, its roots, are the graphic image of the Unconscious that unites all parts of a being through time and space. The labyrinth of the Inner world.
_I: That will vibrate in me eternally…
_AM: And therefore, only by honoring him will you be free from him. The labyrinth of your internal world is the wealth that gives experiences to your life, to the path of your existence in this universe. Plant a tree and you will get food. Plant a tree and you will have oxygen. Plant a tree and you will have shade. Plant a tree and you will refresh the world. Plant a tree and you will keep warm at night. Plant a tree and you will harvest medicine. Plant a tree and you will get firewood to warm your cold nights as well as give you light so you can see in the shadows. Plant a tree and you will give a home to animals. Plant a tree and you will get wood to build your home. Plant a tree and you can get paper from it to write your stories. Plant a tree and you will be able to recognize in it all the history that is kept in your subconscious, and when the sunlight burns your crown, you will recognize that walking the labyrinth has been worth it when you sit down to rest in the shade leaning on its trunk.
_I: The shadow of my unconscious is like the shadow of the tree of history that shelters me...
_AM: That gives you everything you need to live, therefore, the Tree of Life lives in you.
_I: I am the Tree of Life.
_AM: Plant thousands of trees, and you will obtain the Forest of Consciousness.
_I: And so, all united, we will be able to write our history.