Uncomfortable Vivid Memories

Speaker 1 0:53

So I've noticed something recently, like whenever I have an experience that's triggered in memory, like it feels super vivid not in my imagination, but like what it felt like to be in that moment, and it feels like, say, if I have a memory for when I was like five years old, it feels like what I felt like when I was five years old and it feels like I'm living that exact version of myself and it feels really uncomfortable and it just feels like like a lower version of myself and like not the updated version and it feels like super uncomfortable and like icky. And I guess my question is why is that and how do you overcome it?

Vedic View on Time Collapse

Embracing Uncomfortable Memories

Speaker 2 1:55

This is a really great question and a really interesting topic. So, as we continue meditating, our ability to access memory can enhance. To access memory can enhance, and it's a very fortunate thing that's happening, because, from the Vedic perspective and we're going to go a little bit deeper right now the Vedic perspective is that everything is happening now past, present and future is happening right now. So the past is alive in your consciousness and you're simply accessing the memory of the past in a very clear way, and the uncomfortableness is that your consciousness returns to the tiny container of consciousness that you were in at that age. You know, if you were to go back into a meditation experience that you had a year ago, you would probably feel that kind of restricted experience, a kind of uncomfortableness, because now, a year later, you're so much more expanded. When you were five, life was very, very simple in terms of the way you were perceiving things. Now, there's immense complexity in terms of the way you're perceiving things Now. There's immense complexity, and the fact that you're able to have such clarity on the experience of being five while simultaneously remaining aware of what it's like to be you now, it's a kind of superpower, because what you're doing is enlivening the past with your highest state of consciousness. Yet You're enlivening the past. So what to do? How to overcome it is to embrace it.

Speaker 2 4:10

When you start having that experience, drop everything, sit quietly, go into the memory, let it play out, feel it. When you start having that experience, drop everything, sit quietly, go into the memory, let it play out, feel it and then just be relaxed in it, be yourself, observe it innocently. You don't need to do anything. And if there's anything that you're remembering where you felt uncomfortable at that time, as the almost adult self, just comfort yourself, say it's fine, that experience happened, everything's fine. And here I am alive and well, remembering. And what that does is, if there is any constraint that has been generated by the memory that you're experiencing, it gets expanded. Your past gets enlivened and expanded into the five-year-old self is experiencing its future self, coming back in time and giving you a glimpse of what it's like at the age you are now. You're time-travelling. This is the Vedic perspective is that you're time-travelling?

Time Travel Between Past and Present

Speaker 1 5:39

So are you saying, say, I'm remembering something from when I was young. That time, when I was young, I would be feeling what I am now. Yes, correct, yes, correct your five-year-old self is having the direct experience of its future self. How does that work?

Speaker 2 6:16

because time has been collapsed, the past and the present, your future self and your past self are in the same space.

Speaker 1 6:28

So with that.

Speaker 2 6:29

And it's interacting. And because it's interacting, something's being changed. And what's going to be changed? The past. The past is most susceptible to being influenced because the dominant state of consciousness is the future. Is you now? So the five-year-old self experiences the 17-year-old self and there's an exchange. Both are being enlivened. The 17-year-old self right now is being enlightened and informed about something amazing that you forgot. Now you're remembering it.

Speaker 1 7:21

So would that mean I'm experiencing moments from my future self as well?

Healing Through Reparenting Past Self

Speaker 2 7:24

correct your five-year-old self exactly. Your five-year-old self is experiencing moments of your future self. There are moments that you have now where there is profound insight, where you're able to see reality as large as you've ever seen it and can perceive possibility far greater than you ever enabled yourself to see. I would say this is the influence of your future self coming to visit you now as we move into higher states of consciousness. We can traverse the layers of time and space. This is what the great masters say that we transcend all of it and we can move beyond time and space and move interdimensionally and move through the cells of time past, present and future. And physics has already got a very clear understanding of all of this. We watched a movie called the Interstellar on our last retreat so that we could further understand it from a movie perspective.

Speaker 2 8:44

There is an enormous body of work out there talking about all of this that explain it in very clever ways that we can grasp conceptually. But what you're describing is the experience. You're having the experience and it's very powerful and it's transformative and you don't need to make too much of a meal of it when it happens. Just notice it Go. Hmm. Send love to your five-year-old self. Tell your five-year-old self when I'm 17, I'm awesome, I work a lot of things out. And what happens? The five-year-old self gets an upgrade. So your present self boom gets an upgrade. It comes all the way up the line. You rewrite history, bing.

Speaker 1 9:46

Like that. That was my question. What's the benefit of that Like? What impact does it?

Benefits of Memory Reintegration

Speaker 2 9:51

have now. So it goes all the way up the line. So you know, when we do Veda therapy and we go back and visit our child self and we do a lot of revisiting of traumatic experiences, we're using this technology. The way in which we liberate ourselves now as adult humans, carrying the pain and the trauma of what we may have experienced as children or as teenagers or whatever, is simply by going back and visiting the past, which is always there in our consciousness. The past is always now. We can access any of it and we can encounter that dimension of ourself and cause profound healing through providing the attention, care, nurturing and patience that we didn't receive at that time, that would have enabled us to be less impacted by the events that transpired. So we go back and it's called reparenting. We go back and reparent ourself. It's an extraordinary process. It's very powerful.