Opening the Self to Who You Truly Are

Opening the Self to Who You Truly Are

First steps to opening the Self to Knowledge

Last night my husband and I went ‘out’. That is, we attended a film showing in a downtown theatre. The trailer looked good, it was another in a long series of sequels about a sci fi dystopian future. I had high expectations for the film, I had seen the first episodes in the 1970’s and loved them. Luckily it was Cheap Tuesday so our tickets were relatively cheap, but popcorn and root beer was the price of breakfast with coffee. We wanted to support the local movie house. I still love sitting in the dark with a bunch of strangers and enjoying a drama together. It is a way to be together but safely apart. As we muched on our popcorn and sipped the nose bubbled drink, I wondered-how much longer will we able to have civilized gatherings like this, where people know how to behave. No cells phones, no one talking to their friends about trivia, no kids having hissy fits because life isn’t exactly what they were expecting. While we were waiting, I enjoyed a polite sense of ‘we’.

One minute into the film, sent me scrambling for my eye plugs. We aren’t a theatre full of hearing-impaired folks, why the blasting ‘all around sound”? Is the whole world deaf and I didn’t notice? Maybe.

Fifteen minutes into the film, I glanced at my beloved with the look. The ‘I told you so ‘look. Big business nosing out the artsy world of making good films with interesting three-dimensional characters, a plot that is delightfully unexpected, satisfying ending with the good guys winning…again.

Nope! None of that! I estimate that 90% of the film was fighting. Men fighting men, men fighting beasts, men fighting weird extra-terrestrial creatures, men fighting evil machines. That was the entire plot!

Warriors fighting with gruesome hi-tech weapons grunting pithy statements like, ‘Lets burn this place down’ or ‘Lets finish this war’, or just…grunts as they swing their weapons around. You get the picture-ha! Is that where Trump learned his military expertise from?

I sat there, painfully, bored, irritated and slight disgusted.

Halfway through another fight scene, I excused my self from the pornographic violence and used the bathroom. What a relief to be back in human world again. A purple haired young woman plugged into her ear buds was cleaning the toilets. I thanked her and we began a short chat. She was a kid I had taught back in high school. I wanted to communicate that her job was important. I want to let her know without putting it into words, not to bow to capitalist lies that because she was doing a low paying menial work that she was less of a human. To let her know I oppose the oppression that keep the billionaire kings in power. I oppose the wealth distribution of our economic systems that allow point one percentage hogging an obscene portion of the earth while our children and grandchildren watch their future slipping away into end stage disaster capitalism. I oppose the betrayal of our culture that forces young people to be work slaves with less than a living wage, without realistic expectations of enjoying a careful lifestyle that fosters contentment. To let her know, we can do better if we just decide to crawl out of the survival trance we are collectedly engaged in and begin to live our promised lives of creativity, stability, happiness, supportive relationships and peace.

When you live with higher values, then you recognise, we are all interconnected.

Violence to another always results in violence to oneself.

Economic oppression of other results in oppression to oneself…eventually.

Reluctantly, I returned to the dark theatre, the shadows of our dystopia showing off its hungry ghost destruction of healthy human values, joy and magnificent beauty.

When is humanity going to crawl out of our survival violence trance? When are we going to evolve out of the first chakra? There are six other chakras, six other aspects of our beings ready to be experienced and embodied. I’m ready to graduate from our baby kindergarten for immature boy men.

Sorry Hollywood, I’m just getting bored.

Many of my clients ask me this question. The world is chaotic, crazy and overwhelming. How can I cope?

Here is my contribution to human evolution. I offer techniques that anyone can do to improve their mental health and relationships in our daily lives. I teach methods of how to develop our own inner aspects by developing a more resilient nervous system and clearing embodied systems of trauma memory. If you’re unfamiliar with chakras, then check out the thousands of teachings from millennium that record how to go through the body and clear it from past conditioning, especially the deep ancestral traumas of our difficult human evolution. This is where trauma is stored.

Yoga practioners have known about chakras for at least 10 thousand years.

Granted, we spent thousands of years during our evolution in conflict, violence and colonization of others’ resources.

But now we can stop.

If there is to be peace on earth, it will come not because we all learn to be nice. Peace on earth will come with the realisation that we all share the same unified field and what we give out, always comes back again. To care for the other is to care for oneself.

Here is one way to bring peace to yourself and the world. Clear your body of biographical, familial and ancestral trauma by conscious clearing of the charkas, starting with the root of the spine where life and death conflicts and challenges are stored.

We can think about chakras as an energetic skin which protects us from the onslaughts of daily life, the bombardment of the demands and needs of others, and inner noise created by unacknowledged experiences. When our charkas are balanced and aligned and most importantly, all functioning, they are semi permeable energetic filters.

Charkas allow us to feel and let in sensations, process those events and give them meaning through processing in the higher four charkas:

Heart will process emotional experiences, throat will process communication, discernment and danger from more subtle threats such as derogating behaviours of others, environments that doesn’t resonance with our highest intentions, in the mid brain is the central processing place where all the data from the first five charkas is balanced, assessed and structured into either ‘incomplete’ which means it will be stored in various parts of the body as trauma, or will be acknowledged and then released…without a trace except subtle evolutionary changes in the subtle body.

For any concern or challenge in your life, you can find a corresponding place within your body, which has a concomitant charka which mirrors the blockages and constraints of the Self. For example, currently much of humanity is in a survival trance, we are feeling constantly under threat. Unless you are living in an area of the world where there are …literally…bombs falling around you, the threat response is probably exaggerated and you are reacting to traces of past unresolved traumas, either from this lifetime, from familial themes or ancestral traumas. All of these memories are stored in the body and in the DNA of each cell.

The good news is that you can clear these blockages with intent, awareness and healing practices from conscious practitioners. There are many ways to clear the charkas, sometimes an intentional walk up a mountain will help to clear past trauma. Recently at a breath work session, I was able to clear blockages in my root charka. I wasn’t aware that there was constriction there, but suddenly I felt a warm opening sensation at the base of my spine.

Ah, there is more opening now to life energy. I will feel less tired now at the end of the day.

I was right. And strangely, my craving for cannabis disappeared. Cannabis was helping me find rest when I exhausted at day’s end. But I noticed that it was making me slothful and I couldn’t remember my dreams. I get so much guidance from my dreams, so I avoid cannabis for this reason.

You can read more about methods for enhanced conscious living in my book:

The River Books- Three Soul Paths: Inner Awakening to Outer Becoming

by Julia L. Star

https://www.amazon.ca/River-Books-Three-Soul-Paths/dp/B0GCDMWVV7/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

The third River book -All knowledge is within, All knowledge is without will be published in September 2026.