In his definition of the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud assimilated it to a black box containing all those experiences and thoughts that the individual’s consciousness removes.
It is really interesting how, more than a century ago, in full rationalism, we came to theorize the existence of an “invisible” system, which escapes the analysis and the control of the conscious mind, and which, as Freud claimed, governs our thoughts, our actions, our choices more tha we can imagine.
He believed that no psychic event is generated by chance, that each of our mental processes has a precise origin, which can be accessed almost exclusively by investigating the Unconscious.
One hundred years later, Freud’s theses are enriched with further implications and theories. Not only do we embrace the idea that the Unconscious is the true director of our lives, but we try to understand “who” is behind it and “what” it really contains.
Having reached this stage of our incarnative evolution, it is no longer possible to ignore to what extent each individual is the sum of physical (body), psychic (conscious and unconscious mind) and spiritual (Soul) components and it is guided in this learning experience and reharmonization from a higher Direction (the Higher Self).
After years of studies and deepenings, I can only consider this perspective as the only one capable of providing a truthful interpretation of the meaning and purpose of human experience on this planet of replication.
In my eyes, the concept of karma has taken on an ever more complete form and meaning, especially after the encounter with the Huna philosophy, which is thousands of years old, but revived in Europe in the early 2000s through the concepts of Aloha and Ho ‘Oponopono.
According to this ancient knowledge, Karma and Unconscious are closely associated. The black box of which Freud speaks would not contain only the experiences of the current existence, but also those of past existences related to the learning program chosen by the Soul before resuming a body in the third dimension.
Having reached this stage of our incarnative evolution, it is no longer possible to ignore to what extent each individual is the sum of physical (body), psychic (conscious and unconscious mind) and spiritual (Soul) components and it is guided in this learning experience and reharmonization from a higher Direction (the Higher Self).
It’s a short step from here to understanding that human beings function largely by automatisms, until they become fully aware of it.
For those who choose the path of awareness as a track for karmic dissolution, unloading responsibility for the past and taking responsibility for the present is, in my opinion, an accelerated path of elevation and inner healing, which flows into that persistent background of serenity and balance, in spite of the rippling waves of the sea of existence.
Depending on the evolutionary degree of the Soul, in fact, the paths that can be followed are different. Where there is no awakened conscience yet, it is the events (even traumatic), the encounters (even dramatic) that intervene to restore some equilibrium to the karmic balance and offer new learning ideas for the Soul.
Returning to the Huna philosophy, we cannot know exactly the facts and the misdeeds of which our previous incarnations have been the main characters in the long cycle of deaths and rebirths. Certainly, there is the possibility of sensing, probing, remembering – there is no shortage of techniques, practices and faculties at present – but this is not fundamental in order to put things right with the past.
It is enough to observe what happens to us today. Whatever runs aground and does not flow, whatever causes suffering and reopens wounds, whatever takes us back like a rubber band, whatever is as tiring as going upstream or whatever is always activated automatically tells us unequivocally of a “knot” karmic whose memory is inscribed in the Unconscious.
It belongs to our custom (humanity is fragility) to pour on others or attribute to others hardships and sufferings.
The Ego, which has undergone a lot in childhood and in early youth (unaware that it was the Soul that had chosen those trials in order to lay the foundations for learning and for future healing), takes the chair and begins to look for culprits to avoid suffering from other “torturers”.
From my point of view, in the first twenty years or so, the main karmic knots manifest themselves. These are the knots which have been planned by the superior Direction to untie over the course of existence and which will shape our “adult” life.
As I anticipated, since it is not humanly possible (at least at the evolutionary stage) to go back to the past in order to remove those blocks, the only viable way of healing is to intervene on the present moment through a conscious work of paying attention to, sensing, sharply watching one’s inner dynamics, relationships and reactions to the stimuli of the surrounding reality. Trivially, even just every time you get “angry” you are automatically reliving something from your past.
The legitimate effort involved in taking on the responsibility for one’s own suffering often prevents us from seeing in the obstacles we come across an opportunity for growth and healing, rather than a reverse of fortune, a persistence of fate, the tyranny of those around us, the wickedness of the world…
Whatever runs aground and does not flow, whatever causes suffering and reopens wounds, whatever takes us back like a rubber band, whatever is as tiring as going upstream or whatever is always activated automatically tells us unequivocally of a “knot” karmic whose memory is inscribed in the Unconscious.
The Ego takes everything personally. Every offense must be washed away and avenged, since it is seen only as a gratuitous rage by others on us.
The Ego willingly takes the “victim” point of view. The resulting impotence relieves the responsibility of making use of one’s free will to move, unlock, transform, change, push away…
There is a single reason to that: the fear of losing. Losing something that our mind considers essential to survive or to conquer a semblance of “happiness” (a concept that deserves further study on its own).
In reality, we are talking about a projection of the helplessness experienced in childhood. In that age of innocence, genuineness and vulnerability, the alienation of basic needs may have triggered the justified fear of “not making it”, which, although frequent and common, no longer has any reason to exist in adulthood. Ideally, as adults, we could face any loss, however dramatic and painful.
The fear of “not making it”, if reiterated over time, translates into the tendency to want to direct one’s own life and that of others, to want to control events, to want to impose ideas, certainties and beliefs, when, in reality, it is the Unconscious to make them materialize on the stage of existence without our knowledge and beyond our control.
“Willpower” is a mental push, a rational impulse that often gets between us and the plan of the Soul.
The sooner we agree to relinquish control over our lives, the sooner actors and situations, events and experiences will get on stage that are authentically in line with our program of growth and spiritual evolution.
If we let the Unconscious take over the helm of our embodied experience, we will have the certainty of being fully in our “rut”, wisely oriented by our inner compass.
Certainly, we could express our evolutionary potential at its best after having been set free and cleaned of those crystallized emotional concretions starting from childhood (and from more distant pasts).
The range of spiritual (karmic) healing tools, currently increasingly broader, contemplates paths that embrace apparently different visions but, in my view, all united by the same purpose: to lighten the human being and, consequently, the Soul that informs him.
It’s hard to untie. Undeniable. It requires commitment, lucid presence and courage, in variable proportions according to the extent of the knot and the person’s degree of awareness.
In my direct experience (integrated and enriched by that of the human beings I have followed and accompanied over the years), it is truly impossible not to experience states of mind of failure, sense of guilt, discouragement, frustration, helplessness along the path of healing…
One wonders: “Why am I falling back? Have I learned anything from the past? Have all the journey and the work done on myself been of no use if I find myself still entangled in these vortexes of pain?“.
“Willpower” is a mental push, a rational impulse that often gets between us and the plan of the Soul.
On closer inspection, in moments of greater mental clarity one realizes instead that the recovery from those traffic jams is gradually more rapid, that one does not remain, as in the past, trapped for days, if not weeks or months, in that malaise and that he authorizes himself more willingly to appeal to the tools acquired over the years of work on himself.
A fundamental first step in moments when one falls back into karmic dynamics is Forgiveness towards oneself. Already the simple mantra repetition of this concept relieves the sense of fatigue. In pronouncing it, a part of us relaxes, lets go of tensions, indulges in movement, abandons itself to the flow…
Secondly, we can never really ignore Responsibility. We often and willingly forget that, even if without our current knowledge, we have chosen to be who we are and to experience what we are experiencing. We forget that the obstacle, that difficulty weighting like a boulder, is nothing but an opportunity to definitively let go. And the more it weighs, the more precious it is because it heralds a liberation, a healing. If one keeps in mind the goal and the nature of the effort, one can argue otherwise.
And finally, Trust: in ourselves, in our plan and in those who guide it. If our three components (physical, psychic and spiritual), or, according to the Huna vision, our three Selves (unconscious, conscious, superconscious) return to communicate with each other with a work of reharmonization, integration and connection, we will perceive more and more clearly through signs, intuitions, realizations, inspirations which are our rut and our direction in this life.
The awakening from the numbness of unconsciousness and the awareness of our true nature allows us to no longer risk ruinous falls, but stumbles that leave only a few signs, which can be healed with the therapy of Love for oneself.
The awakening from the numbness of unconsciousness and the awareness of our true nature allows us to no longer risk ruinous falls, but stumbles that leave only a few signs, which can be healed with the therapy of Love for oneself.
What really matters is to have understood (even if not everything will be remembered), that some snare has dissolved, that some ancient chain has broken, that one has taken a step forward on the path towards the freedom to exist with no more pasts, but only in the absolute present.
