"Releasing Blocks" is Counterproductive

The notion of "releasing" & removing tension or blocks in the body is often met with the view that "this must be eradicated because it is not serving me."⁠

But the issue with this perspective is that it causes us to inherently resist what we are trying to release.⁠

When we want something gone, we are in resistance to it.⁠

The way to integrate trauma or energetic blocks is through full presence & absolute acceptance. Fully FEELING & welcoming what is there.⁠

But again when we try to bring presence to something while at the same time wishing it to be gone - it tends to stay.⁠

The key is to realize that you are not "better" or "worse" off for releasing something or not.⁠

It is only the mind that creates right/wrong & better/worse.⁠

The truth is that every block or pattern, even if it appears to "not be serving," has at one point served you. Otherwise it wouldn't exist to begin with.⁠

Eg. Your body is holding on to tension & stress for you because at some point you didn't have the capacity to be present to a particular emotional trigger.⁠

Eg. You developed a personality pattern so that your young nervous system wouldn't become overwhelmed by trauma/information that it couldn't process.⁠

Again we don't release old programs or trauma by trying to eradicate them.⁠

We INTEGRATE them by giving them NEW information & giving the original traumas the high-quality attention they need.⁠

This high quality attention is complete acceptance of WHAT IS, now. With no intention or need for it to be different.⁠

Let the mind do its thing as it tries to run on about what is right/wrong, and as it tries to "solve" life.⁠

Yet stop *identifying* with what the mind is telling you.⁠

This full immersion into the present moment & the dis-identification with the stories of the mind leads to not only the integration of the traumas that we are all trying to "release"...⁠

It leads to awakening to who/what we truly are.⁠