<p>Consume consume consume. This was the last topic. A fitting one indeed. If you look at our economy and how it is required f us, the citizens, to continue to consume you can see really clear patterns about what is going  on in the world around us. I want to shed light on this issue, but more importantly I want to teach people how to break free from these chains of the modern consumerism.</p>
<p>If you know about the brain then you know about the wonderful molecule known as dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for our reward response : is really into our body when we do things like exercise, eat fatty foods, have sex, and ... buy things. Modern corporations have utilized psychology to create products and marketing campaigns that trick us into buying more.</p>
<p>One of the reason we buy things is because of the dopamine response that it creates -- we want to feel good. Each time we buy something new, our bodies release a small amount of dopamine and we get our next hit of satisfaction. If we are lacking the traditional stimuli of fulfillment (community, friendship, meaningful work) it is easy to find yourself trapped in a cycle of perpetual consumption.</p>
<p>Another way this dopamine cycle can entrap people is through power or promotion. People with low self esteem often set goals for external modifiers in an attempt to satiate their desire to feel good about themselves. Once they have accomplished their goal they allow themselves to feel happy ,successfully etc for a moment and then they are right back to their self loathing state, seeking out there next accomplish, their next obstacle to conquer.</p>
<p>Often these neurosis's stem from some sort of original trauma (not original sin yall) or a mishandling of ones psyche in their formative years. Often, parents, without knowing, will reprimand or insult their children ... children, being so suggestive at this time in their development often take these things to heart. This is how you have adults that are emotionally stunted, still existing in a pseudo-infantile state, unable to handle the normal pressures of life .Their emotional development was stunted through some form of trauma, they believe something about themselves is wrong or not valid enough and they replicate this initial trauma in the world around them.</p>
<p>Fortunately, we have multiple "stimuli systems", or hormonal pathways that create pleasurable experiences so we can, when unable to feel safe, secure and valid, replicate a similar experience through drugs, sex or consumption (or any of the other coping behaviors that exists)</p>
<p>Unresolved trauma is at the core of most mental and emotional issues. Events, often from early in life (prior to conscious recollection) can create  powerful emotional responses when triggered by environmental stimuli. Unable to find the true cause of these "reactions", individuals often spend years, decades or life times recreating these initial painful events ... (ironically, each "trigger" is an opportunity to heal the original trauma).</p>
<p>At one point in time (#fuckhistory) psychologists and them folk (can you tell I don't like them) thought that talk therapy, or psycho analysis, would allow individuals to understand, work through and cope with trauma. The thing is, recreating trauma experiences can be traumatic.</p>
<p>An easier, more fluffy, way of dealing with these things is by using "incoherence patterns" to disrupt the habitual pattern. Imagine an individual. This individual is in mint condition, no over bearing parents, no early childhood trauma, an excellent specimen all around. They would be able to represent a human, with corresponding nervous system and corresponding corresponding electromagnetic field. In this "whole" example there are no traumas in the energy field (imagine your energy field as a database that houses all of your past, present ... and maybe future :P ... memories). With no trauma energy flows naturally and all vibes are good.</p>
<p>When someone experiences trauma they actually incur damage to their energy field. In the physical expression this is shown as neural connections (memories) of these trauma events and can, over  time, lead to further exacerbation of these and show up as disease. So imagine, if you have an unresolved emotional thinga majigure, you are walking around with this little energetic thing, that can, when triggered properly , set off a cascade of mental and emotional responses, causing your undesired emotional experience.</p>
<p>Now how do we deal with these buggers? remember the coherence pattern wave thingee (rambling now, I know) ?? If your trauma is stored in the form of wave form energy, then, by the laws of physics, you should be able to negate/get rid of it by sending wave form energy (in a coherence pattern) at it. So if you have a trauma sadness and anxiety you could cultivate joy and excitement, focus that energy on the spatial (place in your body where you feel this) and it should be able to help resolve that event without having to get into all of the details and stuff.<br>Now, in all honesty, I feel like I've done a really poor job of explaining this, but if I post this on my blog I will earn some cryptocurrency. To redeem myself, I will write out a short exercise that you, the person that may potentially be reading my blog in the future, can do to practice this. Please excuse any short mindedness or snarky attitudes, I just ran out of weed.</p>
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<p>Exercise:</p>
<p>Start with a body scan. This is when you do a somatic (focusing on your feelings) scan of your body. Top down, bottom up, middle out (#iseeyoubighead), it doesn't really matter. A brief discovery period so to speak to "discover" any energy patterns that we want to adjust. If you would like, taking a few minutes to relax / focus can help you be more sensitive to this stuff.</p>
<p>During your body scan you want to look for  places  / sensations that seem "out of place". Maybe tension, maybe discomfort, maybe a tingling ... anything that seems to not fit in with the energy around it. During the scan make a note of each "area" and move on. </p>
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<p>After you have scanned your body, pick 1-3 of the "major" (most strongest areas) areas as you will be working on them.</p>
<p>The practice is rather simple. You want to conjure a sensation (the more senses you can utilize, the stronger) of love/compassion/joy and then send that energy (using your intent) to the area. Additionally, a small prayer like, I wish that this energy releases and lets go can sometimes be helpful.</p>
<p>Essentially the idea is this. We often have painful experiences that go unresolved (maybe we didn't have the time or capacity to handle it, at that present time). As these build up and accumulate, they can create behavioral issues. As you do this practice you will resolving and healing these one by one (or collectively).</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind. Sometimes we have "lessons" we need to learn with these "events". If you try to resolve an energy "spot" or blockage, and it doesn't go away, use your intent to ask it "do I need to learn anything from this before it moves on". Sometimes you can have a bit of wisdom that you have been "carrying" with you and it needs to be acknowledged before it can move on .</p>
<p>As you practice you can start to work on multiple areas at once. Learn to trust your intuition and go at a pace that is comfortable for you. There is only one way to mess this up ... not doing it ! Ha! If you are using love and compassion you can't really go wrong, just be gentle with yourself as sometimes you will "bring up" old feelings that can be powerFUL!</p>
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<p>Thanks for joining me on this wild adventure and see you again soon!--</p>