Blocks & the Blocked Creative Process

A block is dark accumulated energy consciousness. It accumulates only in the second and fourth levels of the HEF — the unstructured, feeling levels. This accumulation happens because one or more of the structured levels (1, 3, 5, 7) that guide energy flow has become disfigured.

Technically, a block includes: any disfigured structured level, any weakened or undercharged unstructured level, and the dark accumulated energy in the unstructured levels. All of these usually occur together in any one block.

Blocks are created through a very specific chain of events — it starts with a startle or fear response:

1. You take a sudden in-breath and hold it (physiological response — impossible to stop)
2. Your body goes into fight-flight response
3. In the HEF, the energy of your thoughts splits off from the energy of your feelings
4. Your feeling energies freeze, your mind energy becomes more active and alert
5. You have now split yourself into duality
6. Your mind is set up to look out for any similar situation in the future

This split between mind and feelings remains until you put it back together. Without the energy of feelings that fuels creation, your creations cannot be completed:

Your mind determines what is created.
Your feelings fuel the process of creation.
Your will determines the pattern or form of the creation.

Without all three in sync, your creation remains incomplete!

Blocks can't just go away — they don't have the fuel to change. The energy in the block stays split in a lower energy state until enough energy consciousness is added to bring the feelings and mind back together.

Here's a simple test: remember a painful childhood experience.

• Are you crying? If not, your feelings are not flowing — they're still blocked.
• Can you remember it? If so, your mental energy is still flowing — you didn't block your memory.
• The block is the split between the two.

Each time a similar feeling is evoked and suppressed, more dark energy accumulates. On level 2 it becomes dark clouds. On level 4 it becomes thick, gooey mucus. Over time, blocks grow in layers and complexity.

A block has several layers, from outside in:

Brennan offers a provocative reframe of popular "inner child" therapy:

"Don't take care of your inner child! Your inner child does not exist! You created a label called 'inner child.' Inner child = unevolved consciousness. Blocks contain trapped unevolved consciousness. The real work is to release and reeducate your unevolved consciousness that is trapped inside the block."

In other words: there isn't a literal child inside you. There is trapped consciousness that needs to be released, educated, and helped to evolve into a holistic state. You also need to develop a positive adult ego to do this work.

When the hara line and VPC are distorted, three main defense configurations emerge:

When blocks are in place, your creative force encounters interference as it cascades through the HEF. The result: what you create is not what you intended. How far the outcome is from your intention depends on the strength of the blocks.

Listen to yourself when you say:

• "Why does this always happen to me?"
• "Oh no! Not again, here it goes again."
• "I knew that was going to happen to me again!"

These are clues that deep inside your wound, you carry the belief that this is how the world works. Each time it happens again, the erroneous belief is confirmed. But it isn't the world — it's your blocked creative energy unable to create what you long for.

To clear a block, the healer introduces more energy consciousnessinto it. This is what happens:

1. The block begins to expand and loosen (may look bigger at first — that's okay)
2. The split currents of mental and emotional energy begin to join back together
3. The client experiences early childhood feelings as the split heals
4. The block travels up the Vertical Power Current through the chakras and levels
5. The healer helps integrate the unblocked energy into the higher levels of the HEF
6. Blocked energy (held at the age when the wound was created) is reintegrated into the present
7. The freed creative energy rejoins the creative pulse of life in the now

The trapped creative energies are now available to create what you've longed for. The client also experiences renewed wonder, exuberance, joy, and trust — the positive qualities previously locked inside the block.

• • All blocks are dualistic — created by separating mental memory from feeling experience
• • Blocks have less energy than the surrounding HEF — that's why they can't clear themselves
• • New integrated energy must be carefully run into the block to reunite feelings with memory
• • Such healings need tender loving care and unbroken focus and presence
• • The energies introduced are higher principles: unconditional love, truth, wisdom, trust, courage
• • Unconditional love works for everything

From Chapter 3:

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