Before you read, pause for ten seconds, and feel your breath. Notice your jaw, shoulders, and belly. If you are holding tension, do not try to fix it. Just notice it. This week is about Emotional Healing and Release, and the teaching below explains why stress can stay alive even when the situation has passed. Our reactions do not only live in our thoughts. They live as sensation, memory, and pattern in the body. Let this reading be a mirror for what your body is carrying, and a doorway into release.
Your reactive emotional thinking, feeling and interacting with yourself, others and the world is consuming approximately 75% of your life force. That leaves about 25% for your body to carry out self-balancing, self-healing functions.
Distorted thinking arises from reactively processed memories of preprogrammed, prejudiced perceptions of reality. Your mind operates out of these predetermined, biased perceptions that have been built in your body as body-mind conflict. Your body functions in response to who or what is present. Your habitual, preprogrammed past lives in conflict no matter who or what is present.
Every reactive interaction you have had in your love life, family life, work life, or social life has been built in your body as body-mind conflict. Your entire journey through the medium of the mind in the dimension of time is energetically coded in the book of your body.
Your physical body interacts with the outer world through the five senses of perception. What we see, smell, taste, touch, and hear is directly felt in the form of sensations in the body. These felt sensations are interpreted by the mind that carries its pre-established memories about the sensations that are triggered by people, places, or things. The directly felt sensations are then perceived through the filters of the memories that are triggered by who or what is present.
When you are triggered, the preprogrammed energy field of the body and the memories in your brain simply react to the present moment as they were programmed in the past whenever you faced a similar trigger previously.
Direct perception through the senses holds no content of the past. You can see what is as is. But when the conditioned past is triggered, you see what was. This means the reactive perceiver within you is blind to the reality that is present.
Every emotionally charged reactive interaction you have had with yourself, others, or the life challenges you faced in the past had a thought form frequency that was converted into an energetic form. This then turned into a materialized form in your body.
If your thoughts were driven by toxic, intense fear or anger, your body’s energy converted them into toxic chemistry in your body. Each traumatic and painful event you have ever had in your past has been built into your memory precisely the way you angrily or fearfully processed it at the time, as well as later when you replayet that painful event in your inner monologue. This is how energy blocks get genetically encoded in DNA. They begin to change your personality.
The personality operates out of its own preprogrammed, prejudiced perceptions of reality. It operates from its personal reality that functions in perpetual conflict with the impersonal reality in which the body functions.
When a conflict-creating encounter happens, you reactively perceive and interact from the same defensive, angry, fearful thoughts that you already had built in your memory. All the conflict-creating, stress-producing, toxic encounters you have ever had in your journey through time and mind are built into your body in the form of energy blocks in the nerve centers and energy meridians.
The blocked energy carries your mentally and emotionally biased perceptions of reality. These distorted perceptions are created by the ego mind, but they are stored in the energy separated from the subconscious in the unconscious.
The subconscious is an impersonal creation. The unconscious is a creation of your personal journey through the past. The unconscious energy blocks are caused by the failed search for love and happiness from others in the external material world.
When you are looking for love from external resources, you are using the same pranic life force that connects you to the Being that you are. Your life force is then serving two masters: the phantom ego-mind and the reality of sympathetic Being that has manifested through your autonomic nervous system.
The subconscious sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system acts through instinctive interaction with what is present. Instinct manifests in the body for its sustenance and survival. It manifests through feeling, hunger, thirst, sleep, sex, shelter, and rest. The animal body lives in response to its biological sustenance and survival needs. But humans have evolved from the instinctive animal body that lives in response to biological hungers to a self-conscious Being that reacts to what is present in the form of biological hungers for food, water, sleep, sex, and shelter.
When I say that humans react to what is present, this means the human mind has freedom to choose for or against the body’s biological survival instincts. For example: when you wake up in the morning, your body wants more sleep, but your mind says, “It’s time to go to work! I’ll give you coffee.” The night before, the body says, “I want to rest,” but your mind says, “There is a football game. I’ll give you ice cream or a coke to stay awake and watch the game.”
Such choices of mind over body come from the conditioned habits of the past. There are many body-mind conflicts that are built into each individual’s daily life routine. These habits become a natural flow that is increasingly hard to resist.
On the other hand, the choice that the mind has over the body also opens up extraordinary possibilities to explore human potential through the medium of the mind. This human potential has developed over thousands of years of human evolution. It is demonstrated by science, physiology, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and technology.
The mind comes with many faculties, such as memory, analysis, synthesis, imagination, and creativity. It also has an ability to go beyond the subconscious limitations of the body. The mind does not know that the body is the creation of the Being that I AM. Therefore, the being potentials that can be explored through the body are not accessible to the mind.
We are human Beings born identified with a mind that has been exploring human potential, but in the process, it has lived in body/mind conflict. Therefore, the mind has been building barriers in the body. This prevents human beings from realizing the Being potential that can be explored through the medium of the body.
Scientists are using the mind objectively to explore the hidden natural laws behind creation of the human body as well as the cosmic body. This stage of evolution is called human potential. Yogis and enlightened Beings like Buddha, Christ, Krishna, and Mohammed have explored this Being potential.
Now, science is beginning to recognize Being through Quantum Physics, where an atom behaves in response to a perceiver. The perceiver impacts the perceived. This is also what Patanjali said. That there are no objects, just energies. All the objects are created by the perceiver; the perceiver influences the perceived. Therefore, scientific perceptions and mystical realizations are coming together.
I AM Yoga’s Posture of Consciousness is designed to reverse this long-standing misuse of life force by bringing the mind out of its compulsive interference with the body and restoring energy to its natural intelligence, allowing human potential explored through thought, analysis, and creativity to become a gateway rather than an obstacle to Being potential. As reactive perception dissolves and the mind no longer consumes energy in conflict, the same life force that once sustained defense, craving, and inner division becomes available for integration, coherence, and direct knowing.
In this state, the body functions without obstruction, perception is no longer filtered through the past, and consciousness experiences itself as indivisible presence rather than a separate observer moving through time. This is not an idea to believe in or a philosophy to adopt, it is a lived physiological and energetic reality in which the perceiver and the perceived are experienced as one continuous field, fulfilling what both science and yoga have been approaching from different directions as the realization of Oneness.
As you reflect on this teaching, remember that the past can live in the body as tension, habit, and automatic reaction. The good news is that awareness changes the pattern. Each time you pause, feel your breath, and notice sensation without judgment, you stop feeding the old stress response.
This is how Emotional Healing and Release become real. Not by forcing change, but by allowing what is stored to soften, unwind, and move through. If something in you feels seen by these words, take one small step today.
When you feel triggered, pause and ask, “Where do I feel this in my body?” Then breathe into that space, and stay present long enough to listen.