3rd washout day: WOW! Today, out of nowhere, was some deep core healing/release. I was eating an early dinner at home. It’s Monday but oddly quiet in my neighborhood today. I wasn’t watching anything (Youtube, movies, etc) NOR listening to anything.
Just sitting, eating. An internal voice gently told me to eat slower and enjoy my food. Which is actually funny because I’m a notoriously slow eater. But I did. Then I started to feel this tremendous release from deep within. It’s difficult to explain what “it” is. Frankly I know it comes from my early childhood, and even had gentle memories (me being removed from the traumatic incidents and watching from a distance but NOT engaged) and the same voice said “let it go”.
There started to be the beginnings of emotional overload and I felt myself clinch, almost holding onto the energy, which is very typical of me (male children in my generation were told to “shut up”, “Stop crying”, etc) but then the gentle voice told me to breath through it. “It’s alright to let it go. Just breath, relax”.
So I did and I felt a bunch of this energy just release.
Summary
I do want to make it clear, I’ve had years of therapy. I’ve been meditating for years. I do literally stop and smell the roses (and other flowers IF they are out and it’s public space). So none of this is new. But I must say I don’t think I’ve been FULLY engaged with it. I’m convinced that I wasn’t really releasing all this negative energy.
Did I release all the negative energy today? I highly doubt it. But it was an excellent start. And I “survived” letting some of this go. Not sure what I’ve been afraid of, so I will meditate on this because I do believe it is a major key to my healing.
I think this is why some of the emotional healing is difficult if you went through a lot of trauma and abuse as a child. We come to healing as adults. But the trauma happened while we were children.
I’m convinced we must surrender to our childlike mind to heal. Come to healing with the mind of the child. Then just let it go. I was able to do that today. Again, I’m not saying “I’ve healed my childhood trauma”. But today was one hell of a positive breakthrough. ’
This is getting fun. 
