Tied to a Tree
By Sue Greenwald
In late 2105 or early 2016, I attended an expo outside of Philadelphia, which was supposed to be the “ultimate event for women”. I wanted to look around, see how they arranged their expo, placement of the ticket booths, and talk to some of the vendors to see if they’d be suitable for my upcoming expo. I arrived in the lobby, and there was blaring music throughout, definitely the opposite of what I would want. It was loud and over the top, not my preferred environment.
I walked into the expo floor, and it was exactly the opposite of what I preferred. There were huge perfume and cosmetics displays, and everyone was spraying that stuff all over. Everything was loud, and it seemed that the focus was on selling stuff to make women feel superficially attractive–cosmetics. I looked at the crowd of attendees, and thought that they’d been bussed in from inner city Philadelphia. They weren’t the suburban types that you’d normally expect to see at this expo. The whole expo seemed to focus on selling the commercial and superficial things a women “needs”, the opposite of what I believe in and what my expo tries to promote.
I walked down the first aisle, and started to talk with a jewelry vendor. I was then surrounded by a couple of large men. A really tall, loud, very aggressive man told me that I had to leave. I was shocked, as I was only talking with a vender and hadn’t walked by more than 10 booths or so. I tried to understand why I was singled out and told to leave, without luck. This large aggressive man, and his security team made me leave and escorted me out of the building! They would not let me walk out alone. Perhaps they thought I’d sneak back in. I still didn’t understand what I’d done to be removed from the expo. To remove someone from an event, wouldn’t you think they’d have to do something illegal, dangerous, or extremely rude?
I was basically kicked out of that expo! To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have stayed much longer anyway, due to the noise and the chemical perfume in the air. But to be removed that way! I was so shocked to have been singled out and escorted away. Plus, it was humiliating to be escorted out, like I’d done something wrong.
Don’t you think it’s….”odd”….that the tall aggressive man singled me out?
I was quite upset and shaking, having to really concentrate to get home safely. For some reason, this experience deeply affected me all day. I couldn’t stop shaking, even when I got home. I felt trauma, and went home to keep quiet, continuing to shake throughout the day. I purposely stayed inside, where I felt safe, and tried to calm myself. There seemed to be deep cellular memory associated with this action. My reaction was much stronger than the situation warranted. So, I kept quiet and tried to understand what had happened.
Later that day, I realized that the aggressive man had tied me to a tree in a past life. He and his group of followers didn’t like the healing and peaceful messages I was trying to promote, and tied me to a tree. I feel like it was in what we’d currently call Russia. I think there was some other trauma done to me, as in they probably beat me and tortured me a bit. I don’t recall the details from that lifetime, but I think I perished there tied to the tree. It was the trauma from that lifetime that “came out” and allowed itself to be healed.
Our bodies know everything that we’ve gone through in every lifetime. That’s why we can develop an injury or illness, or have these exaggerated responses. Cellular Memory is where our bodies have memory of everything that’s ever happened to us. We’ll sometimes have a strong positive attraction or repulsion to a person or a place, that has no “logical” explanation. You may meet someone and instantly feel like you’ve known them forever, or really want to get away from them. Your body knows that you were close to that person in previous encounters, or that person was not a friend, and if you tune in and listen to your body, you can use that to steer you toward the things that you DO want in your life.