Becoming and Beyond is a non-fiction, true account of complex trauma re-enactments or repetitive events.
Re-Balancing Through Symbols
The opening paragraph of chapter three in Becoming and Beyond describes the divination stage of a shamanic journey. A journey is conducted to access other realms of consciousness or levels of reality. Once there a person usually obtains higher guidance often through symbolic language which when interpreted reveals what the psyche is trying to keep hidden. For example, in the third paragraph, a power animal or messenger from the world of spirit shows up in my awareness, as a teacher or guide. The shadow aspect of a Panda – trying to help too many people, doing too many things at once, being overly sensitive and becoming easily stressed – is an underlying theme throughout the book.
In psychological theory, this character trait is often called people pleasing or “sociotropy”. It is a behaviour that can be a symptom of a mental health condition like anxiety and depression, avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD) or codependency of dependent personality disorder. Whilst according to trauma theory the ‘submit’ response’ (animal defence survival responses of fight, flight, freeze, submit and attach for survival) concerns being freely ‘used’ by others and having no energy to counteract the resulting depressive hypo-arousal.
Into Presence: Rebalancing through Symbols (or chapter three) was published in Watkins Mind, Body, Spirit in August 2020.
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Why Manifestation Is Important
The shadow aspect of a power animal disrupts ‘the delicate negative feedback system that regulates our internal production of hormones’. Memories and unresolved emotions are often lodged at a deep, misty or concealed level. It led, in my case, to physical issues related to the thyroid. Metaphysically this is caused by lack of synchronicity between heart and head or an inconsistency between what is really wanted and a fear of expressing those needs.
Louise Hay states thyroid problems are to do with, Humiliation. “I never get to do what I want to do. When is it going to be my turn?”
Whilst Evette Rose writes, ‘You have a deep fear of not being heard and being misunderstood.’ And ‘you felt attacked and threatened in your own territory. This left you feeling nowhere is safe.’
The shadow aspect of a power animal disrupts ‘the delicate negative feedback system that regulates our internal production of hormones’.
