maria mison: integrated awakenings

and other odd disease cases

For the most part, folks only consider an energetic or at least “emotional” root of a chronic, or really weird disease when all other logical explanations fail. Someone is sick from a deep chronic upset with family, or their navel chakra is blocked, someone lacking access to their inner fire and willpower and needs some louder and vigorous energy to get jumpstarted. For a lot of holistic~energy healing folks this is the usual extent to assessing diseases. Sometimes there could be past/parallel lives that could be affecting your present day karma, but those types don’t typically specialize in physical diseases, and only really skilled practitioners can actually rewrite soul-contracts to relieve physical pain, or to give impactful energetic remediations to either disconnect from the inter-crossing time line, or give long-term relief.

> An example of a case for this would be someone who is accessing another timeline’s body as well as talent (say: the intelligence of a bedridden scholar) and both the architecture of that timeline’s Mind and Physical Body is transmitted to the present timeline. For some reason trauma of how his legs died, or even some misplaced memories can feel co-occuring with the present day incarnation of the person. It can feel “not theirs” but also “their’s” at the same time, and for most folks you renogotiate a way of co-existing with this larger memory bank by essentially alchemizing and cherry picking all the “best”/most aligned parts of the timelines that one can access. Again, sometimes disconnecting/closing timelines is best, sometimes weaving together is better, it depends. 

> There are classical cases of burning through ancestral curses: women in the family always died early, were toxic in a specific way, epigenetic has proven that war and famine from one’s ancestors still lives in your genes in one way or another. A lot of energetic work w regards to ancestral body karma at least, is releasing/alchemizing the ones co-occuring on you or simply distancing yourself from the energetic lineage of your biological family. Again, this depends. If your family has strong souls and legacies of inheritable talents and resources then by and large I encourage clients to work with these energies but not be enmeshed/co-dependent with it. I’ve also had clients who’ve had soul contracts of incarnating with biological family members who are not part of their soul family. They will always not feel as connected to that filial energy line, and if anything, their best ancestral work is connecting to a spiritual or at least an archetypal family to develop an energy that feels rooted and “at home” with itself. Most ancestral curses belie in them ancestral gifts, kind of like initiations where healers or the ever so popular “cycle breakers” develop the qualities and do the research of absolving the karma that has been racked up. How do you speak to men that have been overly identified with cortisol/stress spiked cycles and the collective assumption that their bodies are for war? If you are a daughter of arthritis, fibromyalgia, scoliosis, PCOS auto-immune disease etc.: what anger and self-hate is unspoken, what challenge has spirit given you to inspire and overcome? Which is also, another way that folks frame this but i think this misses a key factor of the karma-trauma bundle that we’re talking about:

There’s a collective trauma body, on material and living earth. 

Memory is stored in space, as well. 

That trauma story isn’t just played out on people, it’s also in environments in street lines, mountains, ghosts, documents and your electric wiring. All these physical dimensions also co-hold the pattern of that trauma like an uncleansed crystal. A lot of folks call this leylines or chakras of the earth portal activation but i mean this in a more literal way, and even an ASEAN spirit-lawyer way: if you harm the trees violently when you work for an earth stripping company, employees from said company can have an unexplainable feeling of being drained out as well. (The earth itself labels you as someone disconnected and cuts you off.) I’ve had actual western clients have chronic unexplainable diseases and I would be the first spirit person who would be like: You’ve committed violence to the earth it’s why the earth is violent back, or is “slowing” you so you can notice it. We can apologize to it via a spirit session hoopla, but yes your job is making you sick because it is inherently, not a sustainable way of moving on this earth.  

I seriously believe that this is an understated dimension of the energy grid lines of nations with very fraught histories. There are specific states in the USA, where even from a twitter videos i can see the legions of slaves who are now ghosts who haven’t been properly crossed over, watching a concert and fiddling with lights and guitar strings. Folks pray for protection and good luck from these things: but I’m also like wow lord can’t you pass over your dead?? I know a lot of good spiritual workers (priests, shamans, “average” folks) and the like who do this labor for the collective good of their countrymen but it’s simply not enough. I travelled across America* for a time accompanying my grandparents to visit their Fil-Am children and there are areas where my energy simply “choked” and could not breathe. I notice that the energy bodies of people in these lands are incomplete/underdeveloped, their root and foot chakras have nothing to link into, there’s so much noise and horror in the ground they have no real “nature” to co-regulate with. I kind of understand “white flight” and why folks who grow up in these states want to marry a nice island girl, she’s so grounded, where she lives isn’t just cheaper it also physically feels kinder. Yes because the land has etheric memory of compassion, your land will remember terror until it’s been rectified.  

This is the kind of collective karma, that land bodies hold isn’t as talked about but is a huge factor when developing energetic bodies. This is why folks go on pilgrimages or study to be amidst masters or altars, these spaces are actual wisdom bodies that remember ways of being, transmission, aliveness. It’s easier to be in a meditative powerful state in Kailash OFCOURSE! so many masters hold that frequency for you and you’re just piggybacking on the ride. Even on a non-“hippie” perspective, folks migrate to cities that have active energies around “art”, “fashion”, “tech”, “business”, even that is a larger energy body, but for a specific way of being, a memory groove or avenue to say the least. 

I haven’t seen much text that talks about how specific nations or energybodies are naturally oriented, maybe because of the fear of being labeled racist. But here’s the thing, bodies learn from other bodies. Bodies have cultures. Go to a mall and see how families walk similiarly, the corporal self mimics the orientation of what it sees. And culture is shaped so much by nature and history that ofcourse our body culture whether it’s sitting on an office chair, qi gong, winter sports, latin flirtatious social dancing, or being an island girl, affects the anatomy of your energy body. YES, I SAID THAT. I notice when i travel that sensual latinas latinos have laser like root chakras it’s some of the strongest I’ve ever seen. I was in a mall on time and my eye just felt like it saw a flashbang when a woman was cutting through the strip animatedly talking to her phone: she was piercing red light, and i can tell her strength and beingness is not just her, this was also the shape of her ancestors. They are fire, they can cut. Other examples: when I travel in European countries, I can always spot the Chinese mainlanders because their chakras are always doing a small form of microcosmic orbit. It’s harmonized and contained. European and American energy shoots up, then out. Their mountains, gestures, words, landscapes, roads, shoot up, then out. They look like giants to me both physically and energetically, my opinion when meeting Mountain winter people was that: you were obviously raised by a Mountain: you vibrate and Feel like a Mountain to me. And I think that’s the clincher here: your energetic body is shaped by the land that you were raised in, both it’s culture, configuration BUT ALSO!! it’s karma. 

Let me give client examples to illustrate how this affects your health, anatomy and personal life. I live in the Philippines, I have local client, foreign clients and filipino-american clients. The Philippines is frankly, a water sign, it’s island like, and it’s tropical nature encourages life to wrap around each other and to co-exist in this raucous crowded texture. Filipinos, most of the time, have the most brilliant heart chakras (especially the women), easy as hell with our abundance of water, garnering so many health care workers. But being used to crowded land energies, filipino energetic bodies have troubles around: enmeshment, growing bigger, breaking out from ties, being “selfish”. What the land makes them good at is also their bane. Some of my foreign clients? No water in their energetic body, it’s huge, metallic, sharp, externally wide as large as LA. I physically need to drag their attention/consciousness to drop inside their body and worm their way to their heart, the internal realm is not as decorated. We need to jumpstart their heart to let them feel “in touch” with themselves. Filipinos? Usually you need to kick up their ego centers (root-navel). We already have have so many words for “loob”, or our internal world, if anything we culturally normalize whole-ing our inner worlds, even amonst the poor. (Look up “sikolohiyang pilipino if you want more resources on this). Filams are hilariously in the middle, inheriting both energetic bodies, which is kind of a testament to how energetic configurations are both cultural and good soul-level engineering. 

Remember: most shamans of old Shape shift. We transmit, various frequencies. Your mind shifts states (alpha tetha), and can easily code switch between formal and colloquial informal languages. It’s not so crazy that energetic bodies can change through generations, it’s not so crazy to change your vibe depending on the shape of a room, or the shape of a nation’s land body and cultural norms. If anything I hope folks consider this when seeing foreigners that are outside your usual baseline of clientele: the local elementals from the land you have no information on might not be “evil” necessarily my friend, you don’t have to exorcise it from the client’s body. Another client may look “healthy, huge and exuberant to you” but that man can just come from Mountain cultures, you need to change the settings of all your spiritual dials to zoom out and see his body to scale. It’s almost like being a vet or a chef. There’s some rules that cross over between species or cuisines, but some of groups/dishes have a few rules that you may or may not know based on your expertise/exposure. 

I promise you, I haven’t seen energetic body map books TALK about this, but this is something that’s very obvious to me as someone who’s clairsenses are all open. I’ve travelled a lot and since I partner dance, I’ve actually physically held and jived with a lot of nationalities/energetic bodies. When I say filipinos tend to be like water cause of the islands, I don’t mean that metaphorically, I mean that literally I feel sweetness pour out from their hearts cause they’re huge saps and usually have malleable, receptive energetic bodies. Africans have a depth and connection to earth like no other, the most deep embodied listening I’ve felt on another incarnated body was from a Tanzanian safari guide who’s full consciousness seems to be so easily woven to the earth, that I could feel his whole body present and listening to me like I was the nature grove that he would observe for elephants in the morning. It’s like how baby animals, or heck, babies would look at you, no mental noise just earth and looking. I am hilariously a moon air sign and Africa felt! literally heavy! literally rooting, the voice of the people there, the cadences all held and nestled you to the ground. They don’t “practice” grounding practices for health, they Are the Earth, held. Regarding energetic transmissions, you don’t have to theorize with paradoxes with these folks, you beat drums and let the body remember and absorb things. Collective trauma wise so much of it is also related to earth, wealth, bodies, metals.  I haven’t worked with a lot of African clients but if anything, their energies surely teach me so so much. 

Okay, but why are some of the most evil folk healthy if the land remembers? Or to a lesser extent, why do some people not seem as affected to land karma/collective karma for eg: expats~tourists etc. ?

Easy. They full detach from the collective trauma body ergo trying to at least skip accountability for their actions (Don’t worry the akasha remembers, so either bloodline, their other incarnations are going to pay up, or saturn’s gonna woop their ass one day). If you’re a visitor, or an expat that doesn’t really plant roots, you’re also similiarly detached from the story and identity of the land. It’s not a part of who you are, you don’t deeply energetically engage with it, so you’re not changed, at least not yet. The thing is most folks have at least a little karma related to places they’re living in for quite some time. (astrocartography has so much lore about this but i’m talking about something else). Either that or their contracts soul contracts don’t have anything that stipulate all this. Some folks soul contracts are more on a personal level rather than collective level so they don’t really feel latched anywhere, that’s fine too. (These souls look like balloons to me, they’re not corded anywhere).

Now before anyone gets assumptions. I understand that some models of enlightenment propose not being attached to anything, or carrying memory/cords to anything around you. You essentially, disappear into Allness. I understand this, I’ve seen this, I don’t think that’s helpful to a lot of people. Most folks need an identity to operate in a society and fashioning an ego/persona is a skillset, it’s not actually all that you are. Yogis and sages have lore about fashioning different vehicles for their beingness, and if anything I’m describing the different engineering anatomy that different cultures and souls have produced. We’re life! We all have different answers to expression and existence.

Now here’s the thing, a lot of folks who master burning karma/bounds, generating a lot of chi/energy. Master a lot of these subtle realms… These saints and bodhisattvas burned collective karma…. for the collective. It’s kind of like running a general cleaning and garbage disposal program for your local village, you don’t teach folks to clean their house you close down the toxic factory spewing nonsense into your local village river. They didn’t just heal people, they heal entire lineages, and land bodies. The passively make the collective grids of energy easier to breathe in and more harmonized etc. Now some esoteric groups, enthusiasts can claim to be doing something similiar, but I’ll be honest, collective karma is a big beast to confront and you can really permanently psychically damage yourself across timelines if you don’t know what you’re doing. I know of some folks who have suffered permanent paralysis because they can’t shut down the cords they’ve made to the oversoul of the world, imagine constant pain from the soul of the world rectifying through your body— you’ve got to be Mama Mary Level to actually survive that onslaught. A lot of self-sacrificing healer types, bemoan being oversensitive to the pain of the world, when what’s really happening is they’ve corded themself to a larger story that they’re not quite fit enough yet to handle. I always tell my students: punch within your weight class. I’m not saying trauma is a fight, but it does involve bodies, you (mental emotional physical spiritual) need to be physically apt for whatever cord/story you’re choosing to help rectify/pick up. 

But wait, doesn’t that mean other people can take on other people’s karma? Is that what you’re saying?

If you’re adept enough, yes. If anything a lot of native healers used this technique to recourse trauma back to the earth for simple treatments. It’s like zuko learning to redirect lightning (yes the character from avatar the last airbender), it won’t hurt as much if you know how to re-direct it safely. I’ve heard another yogi put it this way: if a stronger river flows alongside and absorbs a smaller river, if can push and even direct the course of the smaller river, even when it has some blocks. It’s just flooded by a stronger flow. If anything this is the logic of devotion as well, the flow of what you’re devoted to (God, bhakti, etc) supersedes, and breaks open your very human perception of what life is. Some folks have used this dimension of life for very manipulative purposes, and more commonly vampiric practices, but this is both very spiritual/energetic and terribly mundane. It’s like someone who overpowers your decisions, or conversations, and cause of a lot of charisma, and energetic pull you let them, you’re swept up by them. Spirit has physics, energy and cords are actual physical rivers to me. You can do this in a very benevolent and well, malicious way. It doesn’t change the Truth that in some dimensions of reality we all melt into each other: ergo we can access each other through that door and well WOW. If anything this is what a lot of co-regulation, mirror neurons, parralel play, body doubling is up to. It’s the fact that we can attune to each other, and when it’s aligned in the same direction, it just flows stronger. Again energy has physics. There’s an iching hexagram about this phenomena called: gathering together. It’s also why evil eye is a thing, folks perception of you also has a flow force, it’s why marketing and branding is a whole field of magick in itself. Now surprisingly, I don’t actually want to nitpick ethics right now or do a sales pitch. What do I actually want to get to? 

We need more Saints and Bodhisattvas, old school grandma prayers. 

(1) I want to encourage folks to pray specifically for all the souls that died violently on your land. Your ancestors who died bitterly. Your blood and relation to the land directly gives you more energetic leverage to petition for their souls.

(2) Attune to at least a kind of land spirit, wether its a park or a whole damn province or even ocean. The spirits of nature long to be connected to us but we must also be willing to connect to them for them to teach or aid us. I’ve learned so much from american redwood trees and their memories of winter and fire, from the japanese land energies that naturally emanate bushido and the memories of it’s masters and people. Life and Spirit is everywhere it’s constantly teaching you, please be curious about the stories and wisdoms of the land body that you live in, are native in, what even you harvest food from. There’s so much intimate wisdom from grounding in that knowledge, it’s inexplicable what beings and dimensions one can access. I consider this a grandma/ancient prayer because farmers used to/in certain cultures constantly commune with the land. It’s not an extraordinary temple rite, it’s a way of being. Both spectacularly innovative and ordinary at the same time. 

(3) Learn to genuinely pray and bless your loved ones. I know there are practices that encourage to bless compassion for the whole world but I’m not even asking for that. Genuinely, witness how strong your prayers can be when you do it for other people. It will teach you a lot about yourself. And you can practice cultivating, invoking and directing a lot of energy because you’re attuning to a semi-larger energetic body: your ancestors, your workplace, heck your pets! Folks on social media etc. Depending on the soul, you can get really good at blessing and praying for good relationships, people’s careers and businesses, I’ve seen grandparents almost curse their descendants with success, and it looks like clouds of energetic packets of luck and unconditional protection for their beloveds. Ancestral gifts are also, generated, and yes you are! a future-present ancestor, we practice and learn to pray with and for other people. 

I feel like it was a couple of generations ago, religions still collectively encouraged/normalized folks to do stuff like this. Pray for the protection of your family, good marriages, do these “superstitious” stuff, until industrialization and individualism came in and it became uncool to believe in “fiction”/myth, to feel so weak and connected like that. It’s frustrating for me because I kind of get that it’s called myth, but most folks just don’t have the energetic capacities to witness and observe that it’s actual direct Fact. Blessing the world, attracts more blessings. 

And also! We have so much work to do in terms of rectifying so much of the collective trauma that folks are trying to hack away from a geopolitical pov, activist pov, or even personal karma pov. It takes a while to embody and actually ground a reality/timeline that makes material so much of that energetic healing but I think it’s a worthwhile life to ACTUALLY live out. If anything your soul will feel aligned and free. At least, that’s what i’ve observed… 

Maria