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Holographic Repatterning Sessions^® for Connecting with Compassion

Mirror 8: Unresolved Past Communications

It really can come from that far back

As infants, the right brain -- which communicates symbolically and sees the world in terms of connection, is more highly developed.  It may be that this is why an infant or child cannot separate out from themselves events that happen to them and why they happen.  Nor can they understand time.  The infant and child live in a highly subjective, magical, now world.  There is no 'out there.'  They are connected to the rhythms, sounds, movements, smells, and sensations around them and within them, not knowing where these things originate, only knowing that that is what is.  

In adults, the left brain -- which understands separation, time, and autonomy, is more developed.  Cause and effect are understood.  Logic comes into play.  Words can be used to describe feelings.  A distinction can be made between what originates from within and what originates from without.

Unfortunately, when the infant or child feels threatened, the cry for help comes in the symbolic language of the right brain, and the message of 'I am hurt,' 'I am lonely,' 'I am sad,' comes across to the more word oriented adult as misbehavior, disruption, and acting out.  If the parent fails to register and respond to the underlying communication positively and/or responds with some form of punishment, the infant then takes in the message 'I am a problem; I need to shut down this part of me.' 

For instance, separation from the mother can be experienced as terror and abandonment, a lack of security.  It is not experienced as 'I will be ok and she will be back.'  There is no knowing of the future.  The life need of contact -- a continuous need for the first two years of life, is not fulfilled.  As a result, the child develops non-coherent unconscious beliefs and perceptions about itself which are pre-lingual yet might be translated into something like: 'She have gone away because I've done something wrong,' 'She has gone away because there is a problem with me,' 'She is not there because I am unacceptable.'  As a result, certain patterns develop within the psyche and brain which then pattern into the physical body and relationships as well.

These unconscious, non-coherent, pre-lingual patterns stay with us and govern our habitual, day-to-day interactions with ourselves and others until they are identified and released.

Very often, when there is pain or dis-ease in either our body or our relationships, there is an underlying communication which is waiting for a positive response to release it.  Once the communication is made and received in a loving way, the new perceptions can be anchored, allowing us to communicate with integrated understanding.   As a result, we are able to combine discrimination, objectivity, and logic with feeling, understanding, and the ability to perceive creative new possibilities. 

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Holographic Repatterning® by Chloe Faith Wordsworth

Updated 02/17/2009