We received a wonderful e-mail yesterday from a brave person who is on the same journey we and many others are — that of trying to get their memories back and doing it in the least traumatic, healthiest way possible. Where you spend as little time as possible banging your head against the wall. Uh … metaphorically, of course.
So often we get more than we bargained for when these memories start coming up — headaches, freakouts, nightmares, nosebleeds, and the list goes on. Sounds fun, don’t it? Anyway, she asked a few questions on this topic and has graciously allowed us to share our responses so that it might help others. Again, we are by no means getting memories back gurus. Or gurus of any kind, for that matter.
All of our information is based on our personal experiences, through much trial and error sometimes, and finding what works for us. But since everyone is different, what works for us might not work for you. Okay, enough with the disclaimer-y stuff, let’s get on with it:
[Update: We forgot to mention one of the most important things: Use your sense of humor often! If you don't have one, get one! This is a life saver. It may seem silly, but we would probably not have survived without being able to see the humor in things.]
1) When memories start to return, what are your techniques to help with moderating the flow, so that overwhelm doesn’t set in?
Overwhelm. One of the most fitting words to describe this process.
If you’re not trying to force the memory in the first place, this will help. Try to go some place quiet. Sometimes they are going to come no matter what.
- If it’s really bad, get yourself in a warm salt water bath pronto. Make sure that you also immerse your head at least once so that it coves your entire body.
- Sometimes talking out loud during the process helps because it acts like an additional pressure valve (another reason to be alone).
- Also walking or moving your hands can provide the same benefit. Click a pen, pace, knit, play a mindless game on the internet — this can temporarily pacify your “keeper of the brain”, which is responsible for a lot of chatter. You will find that you are still able to get the memories and focus on that even though part of you is doing something else.
- Stay neutral. So many of these memories are so bad that if you let even a tiny bit of emotion in, it will wreck you. Sometimes you will feel like a bad person if you don’t allow yourself to feel whatever you think the appropriate emotion is (horror, guilt, shame, especially). You are not a bad person for staying neutral during a bad memory, this is a tactic to save your life and sanity and the only thing that comes out of letting these emotions in is overwhelm or a breakdown. Do not fall into this trap. You must do whatever it takes to preserve your own sanity.
- I (Miranda) have found many of Stewart Swerdlow’s techniques helpful, and some of them are my automatic go-to when overwhelm hits. Putting myself in violet, using the brown merger, and balancing my T-bar. Also there are many helpful tips in Janet Swerdlow’s book, Decoding Your Life. They don’t take a lot to memorize or execute, but they are very powerful.
2) Any suggestions on how to do booby trap overrides for more sophisticated programming overlays that are blocking or side tracking recall, or diverting one into self-destruct or sabotage routes?
Booby traps are hard, because often we, the programmed, do not recognize them when they strike. They are designed that way.
- If, and I say ONLY IF, if if if IFFFFF you have someone that you trust with your life and very soul, and who knows and accepts who and what you are (this is a tall order), then they can be very helpful in gently pointing out that you seem to be triggered or caught up in a mental booby trap. If you don’t have someone like this, do not put any responsibility on them for trying to recognize this stuff, it will be potentially very damaging to you and best to not give them this role.
- If the booby trap is one you are aware of, you can flush with violet.
- Invent your OWN counter-programming — you have the power to do this. It is especially powerful if you access your own store of sacred power, symbols, and tools. Recognizing a booby trap already diminishes its power. Fight back with your own powerful imagery. The more you build on this, the stronger it will get.
- Do not hurt yourself. I, Miranda, was a serious cutter for a time. This is a programming breakdown and a way for your inner programmer to seal up the leaks. It is very dangerous, and of course there is also suicide programming. Sometimes the urge can be so strong. What has worked for us is to get mad. That’s right, I said get angry, Big taboo, no? Just make sure to get angry at the right thing. Get angry at THEM for trying to control you. Are you going to let them win? They are going to win if you cut or harm yourself. Are you really going to give them the bloody satisfaction of being able to control you from a distance years later? Do you want them to win? Do you really want to give someone that much power over you? I DIDN’T THINK SO.
- And don’t feel weak or guilty for wanting to hurt yourself. That will just make it worse. Listen people, Duncan was a hair’s breadth from blowing his ever-loving brains out all over the kitchen from suicide programming. It is very real. The more you hate or resent yourself, the more they win. Here is your chance to stick it to your handlers and programmers. Do it by laughing at them that they have no such control over you. Do whatever it takes to fight the urge, so long as it harms no one.
- Some people who cut have found that drawing on themselves helps release the urge to cut. even better, draw protection symbols on your body. Find ways to honor, and yes, even worship your body. It needs it. Often programming gives one an almost erotic high when they think about self-harming. Rewire that shiznit in your head any way you can. Do something *actually* erotic, buy new lingerie, work out, do art, whatever.
3) Any suggestions on dealing with the black magic/technology attacks that are a little trickier to manage than the run of the mill demonico and discarnate attack stuff? (So far my best tactic is to keep switching defensive tactics and trying new things ALL the time. I personally employ a wide range of herbs, animal totem medicine, mental and etheric body sheilding, deprogramming ceremony or commands (I’ve employed some from Lisa Renee at Energetic Synthesis with good result), etc. It seems to mostly be working, but damn, its exhausting and requires a lot of creativity which isn’t always flowing when I”m in a recall phase and hence kind of shut down from these gifts.
One of the nice things regarding correspondence we get from people who were involved in projects is that they often have a very high amount of psychic ability. The forge of trauma, life, et al has tempered their abilities to recognize and use them. This means that we don’t have to start at the beginning with things that go bump in the night and work our way up. These people have a lot of expereince sometimes with this stuff, so no catch up is necessary. Like here.
This one is a little harder to answer, because there are frankly some things (especially inter-dimensional things) which have access to technology that we do not have the tools to counter. We call it black magic but we mean that to mean “technology that hasn’t been discovered yet (or perhaps technology that has been discovered for a long time but is being suppressed)”. Your counter tactics, changing it up all the time, are oone of the best measures we have found to deal with this stuff. The problem that we encounter with these attacks is that, whatever they are using, they have a way to re-calibrate their gizmos to deal with it so often what we try is only a one-off and won’t work a second time.
We could write a book about this stuff, as it’s impossible to cover in a blog post here. The only other slightly helpful information we can provide is that we seem to have the very best success when we access our very, most primal instinctual behavior. Sometimes we don’t know why we choose to do the things we do. Sometimes we suspect that our alter personalities come out in this “fight or flight” mode to help us. Sorry we could not be of more help with this one. we are the first to admit that there are things out there (especially the ones going after us) which have superior weaponry.
We just do everything we can to stay sharp, stay clear, and keep changing it up. Often a lot of these attacks are meant to wear you down so that you will become vulnerable to things you normally wouldn’t be. What do we mean by that? Offers to go work for the “other side”, and things of that ilk. Watch out for the long game here — they want you to get sloppy and make a mistake so they can get their hooks more deeply into you.
