There is an ever-increasing demand for storage facilities in the US. When looking recently at options for a temporary need, we couldn’t believe the price and how few were available.
Paying to store stuff…
Storage costs money. It can get to the point of taking away needed resources and energy.
Our bodies and our souls store things too.
The traumas and emotions that shaped us, where we were too young to react well and just coped, where things were imposed on us that shouldn’t have been. These led us to false determinations in our minds. Those things are stored in you; in your neurons, in your body and thus in your soul.
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Soul storage; when so encumbered it reduces our brain function. It costs us dearly!
“When one part of the brain is overloaded with emotional material, the whole brain system and its functioning is reduced.” Catherine Thorpe (Licensed Mental Health Counselor)
Clearing out our soul storage is a process of revisiting the places where emotions/reactions are held inside our inner beings. We can with hope, open the old, rusty door, notice what’s there and grieve. Then carefully connect our younger formations with our older. We can assure our younger selves that it was not our fault, we did what we could and it does not define us. Our Creator comes in His powerful compassion, speaks and frees up our neurons, leads us to new places so we’re not stuck in that reaction anymore.
“…put off your old self… be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self…”
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV
What is stored in your soul?