When Old Wounds Misfire
What you are experiencing now in your current is very related to what you are experiencing on any realm of your existence. As each layer affects the other—like the many layers of your epidermis—each is influenced by those surrounding it. The further away in distance, proximity, or vibrationally, the less it is affected.
What may be very tender at its root or source may only register as a mild twinge or slight disruption in the layer furthest away. Consider a splinter embedded within the skin: the outer layers are affected only as the surrounding tissue gathers around it in an effort to protect or cover the intrusive particle. But left long enough, it will surface.
The same is true for old wounds in your life experience. What may seem small to some, yet is embedded in your being—like a splinter—your emotional body will gather around it in a protective response. But in doing so, it walls off a tender part of you. The rest of you may function around it, but the offense continues to affect your whole, perhaps even into your adult stage.
Incidents you’ve either witnessed or experienced land within. Unless aired out or removed—brought to the surface—they embed, inform, and tie up some of your emotional resources, rendering them less effective to your whole. Or even causing you to respond in ways that may not be appropriate. These responses are protective reactions, trying to prevent future emotional splinters, but in fact, they may wildly misfire, sending signals of offense in non-threatening situations.
Consider a loner who, when a census taker approaches their door, fires off rounds of ammunition in defense of something a neighbor did years earlier. Not an appropriate reaction to someone there only for a benign activity. That is how you may respond when you’ve suffered and stored your emotions, trapping them within your physical body in the same locations where the offense first occurred.
Awareness of their existence is beneficial to you—like the first dose of medicine known to treat an illness. Your breath will soften and begin releasing the stored, now-unnecessary protection wrapped around your emotions. Breathe softly, knowing you are safe. Let the walls of your internal fortresses crumble, so your energetic flow can breathe fully and surround you in love, rather than fear.
