Tied to a Tree

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, their placement of the ticket booths, and talk to some of the vendors to see if they’d be suitable for my upcoming Empowered Light Holistic 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 chemical perfume 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 expo center was in a reasonably upscale suburban neighborhood. 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 talked to her for about 5-10 minutes, and my back was to the main expo floor. I was then surrounded by a group 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. He really didn’t talk to me, other than to tell me I had to leave at that exact moment!

This large aggressive man, and his security team actually 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? In my experience with producing expos, I’ve only asked a few people to leave, for their rude and disruptive behavior. In this case, I was quietly observing and hadn’t even walked through yet.

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. 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.

Once that realization came to me, I was able to calm myself down and return to normal. As I said before, my reaction to being evicted from the expo was way more extreme than I think it should have been, which gave me a clue that something unusual was happening.

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.

One of the worst things about so much technology available to us is that we don’t slow down and “turn inward”. We’re very distracted by social media and everyone communicating constantly, so it’s harder to tune into our body and “feel” if something is wrong or right. I find that when I’m rushing around and focused elsewhere I miss a lot of clues. It seems the pace of life has increased, so we consciously need to slow ourselves down to refresh and to see what inner messages we might receive.