Out-of-the-Body Living

Two days ago, sitting in a dental chair for a regular cleaning, I realized why I’ve always had such high tolerance for pain: I never was fully in my body!

The road to this discovery was paved by my experience at Jim Self’s seminar last month. Being “volunteered” onto the stage to help with a demonstration of his first tool, the rose, I understood the moment of jumping out of the body, the exact feeling of it. I realized that we do it when we are scared, insecure, uncomfortable, and “just in case” in most cases. I’ve been watching how often I do it ever since. I learned so much from such a trivial, it seems, realization.

Back to the dental office, memories of the instances when I would faint before I communicate that I am in a severe pain are surfacing in my mind. Yet, I could not find memories of what I did during the three weeks I spent in bed and in pain last year after the car accident. Where was I? Some place, certainly not in my body experiencing that pain. So, I never complained. :)

Only a year later, I understood that it took me weeks after the accident to return to my body, i.e., start grounding. It is an ongoing process, and it is fun to watch the results, not to mention creating them!