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May 24, 2025 3 mins

The Art of Conscious Recollection: Mastering the Interplay Between [Past, Present, and Future]

Well, hello rockstar.

That, you are.

Have you ever been driving or in the shower and suddenly a memory pops into your mind, often an unpleasant one?

This is not random - your unconscious mind is trying to send you a message.

Your memories don't define you - they're like a DVD collection you've built up over time. You can update and rewrite them through deep personal/spiritual work, trauma healing, and tapping into your intuition.

But here’s the twist: it’s not honest to reality. It’s honest to what it believes is real.

And that distinction is everything when it comes to understanding yourself or helping others.

Perception vs. Reality

Your unconscious mind doesn’t care about facts.

It stores what it perceives as true—even if it’s not. This is why memories that are inaccurate or even flat-out wrong still shape who you are today.

So when someone shares a wild story from a past life or even an alien abduction, don’t argue. Because whether it’s literal or metaphorical, it’s connected to what they’re dealing with now.

That’s why the work isn’t about verifying reality. It’s about understanding how someone’s subjective truth affects their emotions and behavior.

Your Memories Lie (But That’s Okay)

Every time you remember something, you’re not actually recalling it—you’re rebuilding it. Your brain reconstructs memories, often blending multiple events or changing details without you realizing it.

So if your current identity is based on memories that aren’t even accurate… why not update them into something better?

Many people fear that if they change their memories, they won’t be themselves anymore. But that’s just another illusion.

Two Big Delusions

* You believe your memories are real. They’re not. They’re recordings, and often imperfect ones.

* You believe your memories are you. They’re not. They’re things you made and stored. You are something far beyond them.

Your memories are like a DVD collection. You own them. But they don’t define you.

In deeper personal work—whether it’s healing, therapy, or spiritual growth—you eventually learn to let go of these memories. Not because they don’t matter, but because the energy tied up in them can be used for something better.

You’ve Already Won

If you’re able to look back at your past, even just to think about it, you’ve already won.

You survived.

Whatever happened didn’t break you.

Trauma only gets logged when your nervous system believes you were in serious danger.

That’s what activates the brain’s trauma survival system.

It traps that moment inside you, waiting for a chance to be resolved.

Sometimes your unconscious tries to get your attention.

You’ll be having a normal day and suddenly—bam—a memory from childhood hits you.

That’s not random. That’s your unconscious saying, "Hey, can we clean this up now?"

But instead of dealing with it, we distract ourselves.

Push it back down.

And it takes energy to keep it there.

Over time, that emotional energy builds up.

By your 30s or 40s, it starts to wear you down.

Physically, emotionally, and mentally.

So what do you do?

You start cleaning up the energetic body - not through the mind, but through the heart.

There are two neuroscience and energetic perspectives on transmutation and trauma.

Transmutation is a SHIFT in essence - that of a memory and the energy attached.

It is alchemy, and when we look at the structure of healing, it is that of transmuting on many levels.

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