Have you ever been watching a movie and played with stepping back from the sound track so that you become consciously aware of how the music is leading your emotional reaction to the scenes you are watching? Some scores may be obvious and others subtle, but they all are designed to evoke certain emotional responses that give that real depth to a cinema experience.
In your life there is always an emotional “sound track” playing under your experiences and under your thoughts. It is there to guide your responses, to indicate which are important (volume) and what flavor they have; happy or sad, fearful or angry. As your experiences are stored away in the long term memory banks they are filed with this emotional “sound track” included.
The memories that have the strongest charges tend to resurface from time to time. Spiritually this is so you can review them with neutrality and release the change on them. When this happens, it is like the scary music cue in the movie, we match the old emotion and find ourselves right back in a similar experience. When the charges are unpleasant we tend to resist them and push them away, adding new layers to the charge associated with them.
The other day I was thinking about how pesky these old memories can be until we sort through them, when I wondered why we don’t also work with positive memories. For years when I have spontaneously found myself in a really great state or spiritual experience I will ask my higher self to book mark it, so I can find it again and return to it. In hypnotherapy when you have found yourself in a positive state it is usual to anchor into the body for future reference, as a resource.
Filed away in memory you have a large selection of positive memories, which you can call up along with their emotional sound track. Allowing your body to match to positive feeling, or invoking the state of being you were in, you can make these into resources, tools for practicing positive emotional states. As you practice these positive states they become deeper and easier to find and reload. In fact after a while you can leave out the memories and go directly to the emotional experiences.
I’m not suggesting that you keep charging up the old memories, but that you allow them to remind you of the good feelings and relaxed states that you have experienced in the past. Building these tools and resources you can choose what emotional score you want to play underneath your current experiences and life. Changing the music can have a wonderful affect on the quality of the movie and the nature of your life.
So take some time and sort through those old memories for the positive, uplifting, funny, or joyous ones. Then bookmark them so you can play with them on a sunny afternoon, or find them when its raining and bring your inner sunshine to any time or place. These states of being are part of who you are and you can learn to access them, to have them as your foundation, to use them to rewrite your own soundtrack.
Happy composing.
(© 11/2011)
