Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (creator: Josh Trent) exploring whether recurring emotional patterns (anxiety, trauma) indicate personal unfinished healing or the process of transmuting collective energy. Speakers contrast the idea of "unfinished personal healing" with the possibility that some struggles are collective patterns people carry and work through individually.
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Have you ever dealt with this yourself? I know I have. I thought, something's healed, and then three years later, it's like, boom. It just hits me in the face. I'm like, I thought I healed that.
We have this illusion that if we keep revisiting things or if the same things keep coming up, it means we haven't healed that in ourselves, which maybe that's true, but I think there's a possibility that that's not true. And the reason it might not be true is a lot of the things that we're healing within ourselves are not actually ours personally. They're collective power patterns that we're voluntarily working through as a way of transmuting that energy out of the collective. So, for example, a lot of times, if I have anxiety that rises up in me, I could say, oh, my gosh, I haven't healed my anxiety. Or I could say, I'm having the experience of anxiety, but I don't need to call it my own. That I need to keep working on. A lot of times, people keep reverting back to old patterns, going back to old traumas.