LIGHT and Blockades - Part 1

I ended the last blog with introducing LIGHT as a necessary element in moving more deeply into an integrated state.  It just hit me as I was typing that being integrated could be equated with “filled with the Spirit.”  Would love your thoughts on this idea.  Back to the blog!   Also in the last blog I said there were fortified blockades that must be removed to allow the light to come in and gently uncover our disintegrative states.

I’ve become a student of brain science as it relates to distressing events, even trauma.  And what I’ve learned is that our earliest years laid a foundation, neurological networks, in our brain that become our reference point for ALL FUTURE actions and relationships.  These early neuronal networks explain our adult thinking-feeling-behaving-relating patterns (patterns of disintegtration).  Yes, I said patterns.  What I mean is the repeated, cyclical ways we think-feel-behave-relate.  Knowing your patterns is an important piece of mental health and spiritual maturity.  This type of knowing is cooperating with the LIGHT or JESUS, the LIGHT of the world.

If you grew up with a disintegrative parenting environment then you were apprenticed in the way of disintegration.  The parenting process is more “caught than taught” said someone significant that I don’t remember.  God designed children with a default setting to pick up and take on the life (thinking-feeling-behaving-relating) of their parents.  So the first place to look for fortified blockades is in your family of origin.  Start your exploration there.  For help with this see my website tab “forms” then go to “forms for your first visit” then get and complete Adverse Childhood Experiences.  Then go further down on the forms tab to “additional forms” and get and complete the Adult Attachment Interview.  These two instruments will get you started on exploring your early childhood discipleship.

 The parental environment is designed to ingrain a way of life in the child.  Today, that can be good or bad, but the ingraining process happens either way.  It is amazing predictable.  From a healing perspective that’s great news because it means my patterns are understandable.  If my patterns are understandable then once identified (LIGHT) they can be changed.  YAY!

In the next blog will continue our journey with LIGHT and BLOCKADES.  Your feedback is much appreciated.  I want you to feel free to join in the conversation.  Thanks!