Recapitulation - Taking it Deeper

Hello, my friends!

Here is another short section from the Pathways in Consciousness Course.

This week, all of my sharings have been from the same section, Week 12: Reclaiming Personal Power.

Recapitulation is a Toltec technique for working with personal history.

Here's a brief discussion of recapitulation:

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"The way we feel about the world, about ourselves, and in response to the things we experience, all of this comes in the form of a story.

Our personalities are stories.

They are a result of a personal history which retells our remembered experience, placing specific emphasis and forming it into specific lessons.

But our personal history is, at first, developed unconsciously, reflecting our pain and conditioning.

And it is huge when we come to see that this is not who we truly are, but just a story.

The beautiful thing about this is that when we realize that they are stories, we regain the ability to write them consciously.

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Now this may seem abstract, but it’s one of the most practical and actionable insights you can have.

Our personal history is not The Truth. It is A truth. One valid interpretation of the experiences we remember.

First, we have to make space and go within, to re-experience these stories and feel the old charge that we carry there.

This is what we have been learning in prior weeks.

How to slow down and go within, how to meet these emotions and process them in a healthy way.

Because trying to re-interpret our stories before we have cleared the charge connected with them is a quick way to bypass.

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So, just as with dealing with triggers in the moment, when we return to our memories and play them out internally, we bring the emotions into the body and make space to process them.

And then, after we have run the experience through again, and again, and again, after we’ve created space around the intense emotion, our understanding expands.

We can begin to see how the situation or challenge has served us.

We can look for the growth opportunity and the piece of gold, for the bit of training or refinement or the valuable lessons learned.

And we learn to align our stories with our wisdom, seeking the blessing in each challenge.

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The second stage of recapitulation involves active reinterpretation.

But we must be open and honest with ourselves to do this in a way that works with us.

We begin to learn to build a true myth.

We begin to rediscover our life in terms of our own personal hero’s journey.

Everything that we have experienced in our lives has been perfectly crafted to help us grow, expand, and, eventually, step into unique and meaningful service to the world.

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When we wrote our stories unconsciously, we did not know this, and we accepted limits that kept us small.

Now, we can review our lives through the lens of the soul’s growth, seeing each challenge as a call to action bringing in a bit more consciousness, cultivating a bit more awareness.

Helping us to return to the I Am at the center of our being, enriched with our unique perspective and experiences.

We build a true myth when we read the book of our life again, and learn new lessons that empower instead of limit.

Lessons that show us how to stand in healthy, balanced relation to the world, rather than acting as a separate and unconnected being.

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Take time each day this week to go within and review.

It may be recent triggers, or older grudges, memories that linger and weight you down.

Whatever old experiences you have that still have your power, sit with them.

Allow them to flow through the screen of your mind.

Experience them from within yourself.

And then rewind and review from outside yourself.

And then from the perspective of each person in the situation.

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Ask yourself actively how this situation has helped you to grow, how it has served you.

Sometimes things have served us by keeping us small or safe.

Any time the lesson that you learn is limiting or painful, there’s more. You can take it deeper.

There is a lesson beneath the pain, beneath the protective limitation.

There is a lesson hidden within which can help you to expand and grow, to transcend your past limitations, to clear old charge, and help you step into your power.

There is a lesson beneath the pain which can guide you to balanced, healthy relation with the world, open and inwardly free.

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None of the lessons that we learn from our experiences are true.

They are relational, relative.

The value of a story is the fruit it bears in your life.

So begin to actively write your personal hero’s journey in terms that bear fruits that you would like in your life.

Begin to garden your inner stories, so that they lead you automatically into alignment with your values and set your energy to create an intentional, chosen future."

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I hope you have enjoyed this exploration.

If you have any questions or you would like to know more, drop a line in the comments and I'll reach out to you.

Thanks and blessings, beautiful Beings!