The Power of Embodied Memory
By Elizabeth Burke

Elizabeth Burke, compassionate therapist and intuitive offers intuitive readings.

We are alive with memory. It flows in our blood, bones, tissues and consciousness. The last frontier is not outer space, but inner space and it is within us where our answers lie. Our symptoms and emotions are the body and mind's way of getting our attention and they provide us with a way into the richness of our inner world. Using our powers of intuition,visualization and deep inquiry and by contacting our innate inner wisdom we can find healing. We need only take the leap into our body and chakras, symptoms and emotions to find the memories, patterns and beliefs that hold our memories in place and limit us. Our chakras are centers for contacting and tapping into these memories, emotions and beliefs that lie dormant within us and are a wellspring of information and energy.

Memories and emotions are imprinted in our chakras, cells, organs and bones, quietly waiting. Waiting for us to be courageous enough to face the origins of our confusion, grief, anger, fear, doubt and suffering. When we engage our body memory and consciousness directly, we can emerge from this journey, with the keys to releasing our symptoms, complex emotions and the traumas and events from both this and other lifetimes.

Each of you has answers within you, you just need to be ready to ask the necessary questions, instead of dancing around an issue, try grabbing it like a tango dancer, embrace it, and take action. Your body and consciousness hold all of your memories--- from the moment you first took birth, so use this, don't fear or avoid your pain or symptoms, engage them, and allow healing to flow into your heart and mind.

Your body is like a great library, and by asking the question that goes with the symptom or emotion you are feeling, you find answers. The key is the question and by asking it, you unlock the memories, emotions and scenarios from across time, from your childhood, from other lifetimes and even from when you were in the womb.

These memories will surface if you cultivate a mind that does not know, judge or fantasize. This is what Suzuki Roshi called a beginner's mind. This kind of mind--- free of expectations, fears, doubts and preconceived notions is essential, then the doors of deep healing can open. The origins of your current struggles become clear to you, and with compassionate discernment, you can discover the ideas and beliefs that hold these ancient memories and emotions in play. By doing this your symptoms and emotional states can deeply change.

So, take the plunge, begin anew---it is spring after all---become free from the ancient histories that bind you once and for all. Understand the ancient histories embedded within, unwind them, and you can start fresh from this moment, from this breath.

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