Emotional Programming

For generations we have built upon our intelligence and have often been offered the experience of personal emotional growth. There is a connection between the emotional, physical and mental that from a holistic point of view is the vehicle of our spiritual evolution. But do we operate this vehicle optimally?

Being locked within our mind is a result of our collective conditioning. Society supports this through academics which often results in achieving positions on the global stage. Each of these positions form a box, or a lens with which we view the world through. This conditioning connects us to a particular set of collective consciousness field attributes that dictate parameters or patterns.

The degree that one is impressionable to these patterns are a reflection of how deeply ingrained the prescribed academic narrative has been rooted in their psyche. There is a usefulness to this, as it allows one to join in with society, to be a part of the herd. There is an innate need for this and yet this too in its own way is programming as well. We are told what we need to survive, and this forms a template that we work from until another template is added to it. This builds on the first and as this continues as we age, our neurological map begins to form, creating our mental architecture which we process and understand our reality through.

The conclusion that we often come to is that our mind is our cockpit, our control station. This, as I eluded to a moment ago, is in error or incomplete. The lens of the mind when taken solely as the truth, ignores the emotional body and sees the physical body as a vehicle devoid of consciousness. The western medical model of addressing symptoms and not the causes is a manifestation of this. I see this practice as invasive and disrespectful, ignoring the intricate layers of intelligence that the body expresses through its many avenues of communication that we, more so in the western world, have been ignorant of.

The emotional body shares a similar neglect, again due to our collective disregard, particularly within the masculine collective which is more often than not, attacking the feminine collective. I say this not as a judgement upon men and women, but the lack of consideration that we are both of these as energies within ourselves. This is often experienced as a duel within us as we play a role as part of a society that does not accept this truth.

The body becomes the stage as the emotions come through to be felt and yet still our mind wants to understand or give a reason for, given the weight of its authority upon our whole being. It’s not about a lack of feeling, or an inability to feel, but a lack of experiencing feelings for what they are; for accepting them as they are. What are they trying to communicate to you that has nothing to do with your intellect? This is the emotional programming where our collective intellect tries to define them and put them within boxes that are not their natural habitat.

Each person’s emotional experience is different. The communication between the body and emotions are key to a deeper level of healing. These two intelligences have been divorced from each other for many generations. The generations before ours have taught their children to do this as part of being a tribe member, so to speak.

By labeling an emotion with a particular definition, how are you giving the experience a chance to be itself? How can it teach you when you have already told it what it is supposed to mean? It has been limited and as a result we have been limited in our masculine and feminine expression. This has created a foundation that has left us with a feeling of emptiness that we are unable to understand because we have disconnected the purity what we were born with.

It was a means for survival as we needed to feel that we were loved so we took this emotional programming upon us and yet collectively we have never felt so alone as a society. Built upon from generation to generation, burying this deeper and deeper in our collective race memory. All of it is a disconnection from our true sense of a whole self.

By becoming curious about our emotions and by just letting them become us without fear or judgement, we are allowing them to show us where our deeper healing is needed and the further we go, the more will be revealed to us until we are free from our sense of self that we had identified with far too long. Who will we become when the boxes of emotional programming finally disappear?