Did you know that your feelings can linger long after a stressful event is resolved?
Emotion spontaneously originates in your body and goes to your brain to be understood through words. Thus, the thinking mind can solve a problem rationally, yet the body may remain frozen in the terror of a previous time.
Last week, I worked with a very successful speaker from Europe. He felt a stressful tightness right in the middle of his chest that seemed always present even when he was doing extremely well.
When we invited his imagination to identify the root of the stress, he saw his 18-year-old self who was very worried about who he “would become.” Would he marry well and have children? Would he make enough money? Would he have a good life? As he looked out of his youthful eyes, he felt the pain of not knowing and worried about his ability to become someone. When I directed this 18-year-old self to look over at the 45-year-old… He exploded with happiness… his answers were right in view… he had excelled in each area of his youthful concern! With extreme joy, he squealed, “Holy Crap! I’ve done it!” After appreciating his older accomplished self, he said, “I can spend more time relaxing, playing with my kids and enjoying the saxophone. It feels so good to know this…” Instantly, the tension in his chest was gone!
What old worries remain in your body from a time gone by?
Click below to listen to a 6 minute guided RIM experience that will help you sense and dissolve whatever shows up:
Transcribed RIM Experience
Closing your eyes let your attention settle down into your belly…
As you rest here, breathe in through your belly button and out through the small of your back.
As you take another deeper breath you relax even more…
Sensing in your body, you’ll notice an area that lights up red… Giving your full attention to this red area, you’ll sense the details of it…
Is it flat or 3 dimensional? Is the surface rough or smooth? Does it have a specific shape or is it amorphous? Noticing other details arising, you invite them to register in your mind as clues…
Sensing the aspect of this red energy that’s calling your attention most, move your awareness fully into it and imagine being it!
Take a minute…
As you are immersed in this energy, an image, memory or number will pop into your mind of a time that’s stuck in an outdated mode. Receiving whatever comes first, allow it as much as you can, even if it doesn’t make sense to you.
As you move into this image and look out of these stuck eyes you notice whats happening around you and how you are feeling,
take a minute…
Express for this time and place, what it feels like in this body in at this time is…
What I’m most concerned about is…
Find the energy of this feeling in your body of that previous time.
Move into it as you rest in it, easily look over and you see an image of your current day self.
You notice how you look now and the successes you have experienced, take a moment…
Looking from this outdated time, you receive a stream of colored energy from your current self…
Noticing the color and quality of this energy and where it enters your body, you fully receive it as the color touches each cell in your body…
The outdated emotional time is instantly and effectively updated into the new image! The new reality penetrates the old memories and they become present as one updated system flowing in, around and through every cell of your body, from the top of your head and out to the tips of your fingers and toes, from the center of your spine and out into every pore of your skin, as old concerns are dissolved by the truth of who you are now… genuine and successfully stepping into ever greater awareness of your strengths and purpose…
You are one with yourself and all the greatness of life itself. You are where you are supposed to be and moving forward even though you don’t know what’s coming next… It doesn’t matter because you are prepared at the deepest levels of your body to be you with your childlike joy and curiosity, and so it is!
Enjoy!
Dr. Deb Sandella
For more than 40 years, Award Winning and Best-Selling Author & Psychotherapist Dr. Deb Sandella has helped thousands heal trauma, move through grief and gain access to more laughter, greater financial success, and deeper, more loving relationships. This former university professor developed the RIM® (Regenerating Images in Memory) Method that alleviates suffering and supports you to claim the happier, healthier life you deserve. RIM® is used by therapists, coaches, organizational consultants and school social workers globally and has helped countless individuals transform past trauma for a more fulfilled life. She frequently brings her teachings to Jack Canfield’s events.
To learn about having a personal healing session or becoming a Certified RIM Facilitator visit the RIMinstitute.com
