Are You Familiar with the Map of Consciousness?
One of the tools I've found informative on my own personal development growth and unconsciousness healing journey has been the discovery of the Map of Consciousness developed by Dr. David R. Hawkins.
Dr. Hawkins was a renowned physician, author, lecturer, and researcher of consciousness who directed the largest psychiatric practice in the state of New York. In 1973, he co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobel Laureate chemist Linus Pauling. He spent his last three decades in Arizona and in 1983, he established the Institute for Spiritual Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to consciousness research. His book, Power vs. Force, sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages and he completed is 12th book, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, just before his death in 2012.
Through his research, Hawkins was able to explain what almost feels intuitive – that guilt and shame are the lowest-vibrating energetic frequencies.
We've all had experiences in which we do not feel great deep inside. The experience hits up against a childhood belief and we feel "bad," and the emotion is stored within our body. This "bad" feeling is usually guilt or shame about what we "should" as our parents, teachers or grandparents looked to correct us.
A simple example is that when I was growing up, our house was spotless, even with three girls and parents who worked outside the house in the 1970s. The expectation was that the daily cleaning activities I was assigned would be complete. Period. No discussion. No excuses. You cleaned every day.
I remember hearing, "we may be poor, but we are not dirty and "if you really want to understand if she keeps a clean house, look at the baseboards."
Can you see the link of this belief to being clean and to money?
Fast -forward to preparing for my son's 9th birthday party and I'm cleaning the baseboards upstairs in the hallway and bedroom, exhausted and crying to my then-partner that he doesn't understand why the house has to be spotless everywhere. Everything has to be clean to have my closest friends over for our son's birthday.
Mind you, this is a kids' outside swimming party. Every bathroom is gleaming with clean sparkle, the floors are shining and the well-manicured front and back yards look beautiful. There I am upstairs, where no one will be going, cleaning with fury the baseboards that no one will see.
My partner tells me, "If your closest friends are looking at the baseboards, then they really aren't your friends."
It was shocking to my body: The shame and guilt I felt over not being able to keep clean baseboards. The consciousness did not care that I was commuting 45 minutes each way for a 40-hour week job, taking one or two college classes and raising our son. The shame and guilt were there.
A huge paradigm shift in my perspective occurred that there could possibly be other ways to view a situation and what I know now is that this guilt and shame was going to be STORED IN MY BODY until I released it.
One of the tools that helped me connect the dots was the Map of Consciousness.
When I began the journey to heal my broken-in-a-thousand-pieces heart after my 20-year dysfunctional partnership came to an end, I didn't know anything about the Map of Consciousness or how our traumas are stored in our bodies. I simply wanted to be loved and not feel so deeply sad and unloved inside.
Those first steps of healing began in September 2001 and continue today as life is here to live and experience
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