Intuitive Alchemy Week Four Study: Clairsentience, Trauma, & Emotions
This work has been incredible for me as a teacher. It's really opened my eyes and given me a lot of insight into myself and my life's story. This week's focus was Clairsentience and developing this has given me a lot of answers to questions I myself have had and I am blown away by the wisdom my body provides. The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets.. I made a post a week or two ago about how profound this work has been even as a teacher and @Amanda Burton asked me how this work has allowed me to process trauma from my birth and infancy, especially memories I cannot consciously remember. And honestly, this is such an important question because it touches the very heart of clairsentience, nervous system healing, and alchemy. The mind forgets. The body does not. The nervous system records experiences long before the conscious mind has language for them. This is why people can carry fear, tension, emotional dysregulation, hypervigilance, grief, shame, or deep feelings of unsafety without fully understanding where it came from intellectually. The body remembers through sensation. This is one of the processes that informs our clairsentience. This is also why certain emotional patterns can feel “older” than the current moment. Sometimes what you are feeling is not just connected to one event. It is connected to years of accumulated survival responses layered into the nervous system over time. For me, this work taught me how to finally listen to my body instead of overriding it. I began noticing recurring sensations, emotional patterns, tension in my chest and nervous system activation that did not match my present environment. The deeper I went into this work, the more I realized my body had been carrying survival energy for almost my entire life. Even my gestation and birth were traumatic due to how ill my mother was during pregnancy. Then I grew up in a highly reactive and high stakes environment where my nervous system adapted to stress very early.