Showing posts with label trauma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trauma. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Codes Flowing Into our Core

Codes Flowing Into our Core

By Jenny Schiltz

Posted on October 22, 2024

 

 
I had a profound dream the other night. In the dream, I was working with galactic beings. I was sharing with them that I have been having issues with my ears, sinuses, and hips.

This beautiful lion being came up to me and put her hands on my head. She gently adjusted my cranial bones. She told me that this time period in the ascension process is impacting the physical in ways not previously seen on this journey.

The codes coming in from the Sun, the Galactic center, and Source are flowing into our core. Into the heart of our DNA, shifting us.

Where we experience, pain or energetic congestion is where we are holding resistance, unresolved, trauma, and limitations.

I was shown light pouring into the body and hitting these dense spots. The light was a battering ram, pushing against the “black holes” in the form. The areas without the black holes allowed the energy to flow through unhindered. A smooth energy flow shifts the person subtly, layer by layer with greater ease.

When one has an energetic black hole in their form, the light comes in chipping away at it. As it does, it works to expose the root cause of the dense parts. This can create a physical manifestation of pain, injury and illness.

Deep within our body we have stored the record of it all. We are being asked to let it all go now. To allow the light to fully penetrate our being.

Pain or Dis-Ease is drawing our attention, like a beacon saying “Hey! Look here! There is something that can no longer be ignored!”

It’s not just the physical level that is being hit. Some are experiencing deeply buried memories arising from this and other lives. Some are experiencing events in the outer world, that are triggering the deep wound, the hidden pattern. Some are experiencing incredible grief and sorrow.

Now is the time to ask it ALL “What are you showing me, about me?”

When we are not “getting the message”, it will play out in scenarios around us. It’s much easier to see the pattern, the resistance, the hidden subconscious in others than in ourselves.

When you see something in others, it’s a wonderful opportunity to say “Where am I holding onto or creating something similar in my life?”

It was then shared with me that the intensity of this process is amplified for the ones that are working towards full embodiment.

This grouping is finding that they are once again thrown into the tsunami of change.

Not everyone is experiencing this right now. I often joke and say that we can’t all be crazy at the same time. However, there is truth to this. As the group that is working towards full embodiment experiences amplified symptoms and radical internal changes, other awakening souls are holding the energetic foundation.

They showed it to me like flying a kite. The group experiencing the amplified activations are the kite. The next group is holding the line, while allowing more and more string to be released.

This does not mean that the group holding the line are not affected by the energies, they are, just not to the severity of the embodiment group at this time.

The embodiment group are experiencing deep activations. They are being called to step into their innate knowing and personal power. It was shown to me that the light codes coming in are essentially flipping a switch ON within the person.

The codes are the signal that it is TIME. An alarm bell has gone off.

This grouping will anchor the next layer of coding into their bodies and the earth. Deep within the body lies the codes of Purity. Within these codes lie the return of the Sacred Feminine. The Goddess is returning through each of us as we come back to the balance and purity from which we came.

For me, it’s the energy of “Mama’s Home”.

Once this grouping has made it to a level of embodiment, it creates the foundation for the group holding the kite string now to let go and fly.

It was explained that the most important task is for us to come in into cosmic resonance with all of creation. We are being asked to harmonize with ALL THAT IS, removing the separation.

This process is intense, and uncomfortable, and sometimes downright challenging. We step forward into ourselves moment by moment.

We are the ones knocking at our own door.


Jenny Schiltz

 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Is Abstinence the Only Cure for Addiction?

Is Abstinence the Only Cure for Addiction?

By Julie Peters

Posted on October 15, 2024




Abstinence has long been recommended as the ultimate treatment for addiction. But what if the research supports a different approach to recovery?

In the classical protocols for addiction, abstinence is king. Twelve-step programs and other strategies help people quit a certain substance or behavior and stay off it forever. While this strategy absolutely works for some people, it doesn’t work for everyone. According to the American Addiction Centers, only about five to 12 percent of people who go through a 12-step program actually succeed in recovering from their addiction. So what if there’s another way to work with addiction? What if abstinence isn’t the only option?

The Link Between Addiction and Trauma

As addiction and trauma research has increased and improved in recent decades, it’s become clear that addiction and trauma are almost always linked. Addiction isn’t the problem, essentially; it’s a coping mechanism. Regardless of one’s behavior or the substance they are using, the addiction is a misplaced way for the person to calm themselves, quiet extreme emotions, and, in many cases, function despite deep emotional pain. For some people, their addiction is truly standing between them and death.

In many traditional forms of therapy, a therapist will not see a client if they are actively using. To paraphrase Adi Jaffe, who wrote the book The Abstinence Myth, that’s a bit like telling someone with a broken leg they can get help down the hall, but they have to walk all the way there without their crutches. Obviously, some substances will interfere with cognition, making it harder for someone to benefit from therapy. But therapy doesn’t necessarily always have to be about cognition—it can also be about connection, care, listening, and a safe place to start working out what’s going on with the pain that sits beneath the addiction.

Concerns with Non-Substance Addictions

There are also a few logical quandaries that arise when practicing the belief that abstinence is the only option for addiction recovery. If one is addicted to food, sex, or work, quitting those things completely isn’t really an option. Recovery is going to have to include working on the relationship with those things in order to heal. It’s also easy enough for people experiencing addiction to switch from one addiction to another; to give up a certain substance but then find another way to dull their emotional pain.

There are also many addictions that are seen as socially acceptable. Caffeine is an addictive substance, and addiction to work can lead to the breakdown of one’s health and relationships. In a society that is hyperfocused on productivity, there is very little stigma surrounding addictions to things that make us more productive, even when those things greatly impact our well-being.

Is It an Addiction?

Further complicating the issue, in recent years, plant medicines like cannabis and psilocybin have been increasingly studied and legalized. If someone is regularly using a substance that was formerly illegal but is now legal for medicinal use, does that qualify as an addiction?

One simple way to know whether you are addicted to something or not is this: Pleasure (or the experience of taking good medicine) brings us more deeply into our bodies and into our feelings, helping us feel more like our authentic selves. It can increase our empathy as well as our ability to communicate, express feelings, and care for ourselves. Addiction is simply the relief of no longer having to feel your feelings.

From this perspective, it’s really not about the substance but rather about an addictive energy. Drinking wine for the sensual experience, to enhance the taste of food, or as an act to share with another person is an expression of pleasure and connection to your body. Drinking wine to disconnect and dull your feelings, especially to the point of consistently harming your body with hangovers and impairment, is more like an addiction.

Addiction Versus Connection

One of the strongest elements of 12-step programs is the group aspect. People are encouraged to come together to talk about their feelings, problems, and relationships with the substance or addiction they are struggling with. As many recovery programs and specialists remind us, the opposite of addiction is connection, not abstinence.

We know that addictions tend to seem hereditary. But if we think of addiction from a wider perspective, we can also see that what might be passed down are survival and coping mechanisms, not necessarily an addiction itself. In his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté, M.D., explains what he learned from his decades as a doctor in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, known for its disproportionately high rates of drug use. Maté could see addictive behaviors being passed down through families, especially where there was no infrastructure to support people through safe housing, healthy food, and recovery programs.

A New Way to Heal Addiction

So what if addiction could be healed by healing the trauma that sits behind it? What if addictive energy is a powerful survival mechanism, not something to be fought but to be understood and supported so that it can rest?

There are many strategies to help people with trauma and addiction. Medication and even some plant medicines (utilized legally with a skilled and qualified practitioner) could help someone heal their addictive energy. Private therapy, especially when it addresses trauma and the body, can be transformative. Groups, whether in a 12-step program or elsewhere, can help establish connection, which supports the fight against addiction. Specific therapeutic techniques like EMDR and neurofeedback can also help some people.

Of course, many of these resources require money. Specialized therapies that might be helpful in particular cases might not be available in someone’s area. Even when free and accessible mental health programs are available in places like hospitals, they may be more re-traumatizing than helpful due to a lack of resources for both patients and the potentially underpaid and overworked staff.

But perhaps the approach to understanding ourselves and our addictions better is simple. Connecting with friends and speaking the truth can be powerful. Twelve-step programs have a lot of benefits and are free and found in all major cities. Mindfulness meditation can help teach us to get curious about our addiction and how it works and what it might be protecting us from.

However we choose to approach addiction, maybe we don’t have to think of abstinence as the only choice and the only way. Maybe this could be the start of a kinder, gentler recovery process. This strategy could certainly lead to abstinence, and that may indeed be the best thing for you. But if we didn’t have to start there, maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to get there.


Julie Peters