How To Heal the Political Divide
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
I saw a quote the other day that reminded me of something… The conscious mind is the loudest voice but it doesn’t make decisions. And the subconscious mind is quiet but it makes all the decisions. In other words, it’s the conscious mind that follows the orders of the subconscious mind.
Let me expand this concept with a personal story…
One of my earliest memories of childhood is waking to the subtle warmth of a winter sunrise shining through the window adjacent to my crib. I was about 1 ½ years old. My very first bedroom was located upstairs inside a drafty 2-story farmhouse situated in the fields of Minnesota where I lived with my budding parents. This early experience is what introduced my first conscious sensations of cold and warmth. I remember seeing frost framing the edges of the individual window panes as I blinked at sun peeking over the horizon. To this day, I can still tap into the visceral experience… The remaining darkness lingering in the corners of my room behind me; the cold air pressing against my back. And the faint sunlight spilling across the field, through my window, and onto my bare chest. The light was enough to warm me. And it felt like a promise.
My father had an abusive father and was a two-tour Vietnam Vet. So it comes to no surprise that he spent most of his days battling demons and self-medicating to numb his PTSD. My mom was the main provider for our family since my dad couldn’t cope with society. At best, my dad was entertaining, when he was high. At worst, he was grossly negligent.
One day, my mom returned home from work to discover that I wasn’t there. My dad, unable to deal with the needs of a baby, dropped me off at a stranger’s house, without telling my mom. After the local cops sprawled across the neighborhood in a search of the surrounding farming community, I was reunited with my parents for better or for worse.
Fast forward to my adulthood. During eleven years of marriage, I became the primary provider of our family because my husband couldn’t cope with the rules of society. He was a good father to our three children when it was convenient, until it wasn’t. Ultimately, he abandoned his children just like his mother abandoned him and my father abandoned me.
In retrospect, I realized that it was my subconscious that lead me to marry a carbon-copy of the earliest imprinted male-role-model design it knew; that of my father. And my conscious mind followed suit securing the choice influenced by my unresolved childhood trauma.
“Scientists found that the subconscious mind makes your decisions ten seconds before your conscious mind is aware of them. (1)”
THE SUBCONSCIOUS AKA THE Wizard Behind The Curtain
I often refer to the subconscious as the little wizarding man behind the grand green curtain of consciousness. While we are distracted by the attention-grabbing images of our everyday life experiences, it is the undetected wizard behind the scenes who is pulling the levers and pushing the buttons of our decisions.
By healing our inner trauma and childhood wounds, we can be more assured that the subconscious wizard is guiding us in the best direction and not looping us around, generation after generation, with the same, repeating trauma. We begin this healing process by identifying imprinted trauma.
Three Ways to Identify Trauma:
Dreams are messages from the subconscious. The more intense and memorable the dream, the more necessary it is to pay attention to the message.
Intense emotional triggers of anger or fear are clear indicators of unresolved trauma.
Illness and disease. Your body is a clear gauge of what is going on underneath the surface within your subconscious.
Personally, my childhood trauma manifested within my body as heart dis-ease. In fact, heart disease has been the leading cause of death globally since 1921. That’s over 100 years! (2) We’ve had over 100 years to resolve heart disease and yet, here we are. We’re smart humans, why haven’t we figured this out yet? What are we missing?
Well, energetically speaking, this disease attests to a lot of unhealed trauma that over half a billion of us are carrying around in our hearts.(3)
Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life, said that a heart attack is like “squeezing all the joy out of the heart in favor of money or position or power.” Heart disease is a chronic “feeling alone and scared”. And a belief system of “I’m not good enough. I don’t do enough. I’ll never make it.”(4)
With that in mind, is it any wonder that both sides of the political divide are prophesying the same ruin?...
“If Trump is elected, we are doomed!”
versus
“If Harris is elected, we are doomed!”
What we are witnessing on the political stage is a collective reflection of dis-ease.
Most Americans aren’t voting for a presidential candidate based on their qualifications. Voters are either choosing for or against a candidate relatable to their wants, needs, and fears - determined by the unacknowledged influence of traumatic childhood experiences weighing on the subconscious.
Both sides of the political spectrum are working in fear, circling around what I call a Cause-Reaction Feedback Loop. As described in my book, The Way of Energy Alchemy, this loop is when someone unconsciously pushes against the fear of what they are perceiving in reality while hoping, wishing, or trying to force another outcome.
But fear is a destructive force not a creative one. We can’t “bend physical reality with mental will using opposing forces”.(5)
“The way to heal a chaotic world is to consciously choose to heal ourselves... It is up to each of us to reclaim and activate the pure power of our Divine Sovereignty”
We must cultivate our own healing to quell the political storm that is looming in the not-too-distant future. Why? Because when trauma is healed and no longer pulling on the levers of the subconscious, the conscious mind can understand that everything is orchestrated in Divine order. Like the promising light of a sunrise, healing guarantees long-lasting emotional stability during turbulent times regardless of which candidate is ahead in the polls.
The Power of Prayer
In August 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave an Address to the Nation. For the sake of this article, I want to zoom in on an observation I made.
In his speech, Mr. Kennedy mentioned that he prayed, meditated, and wrestled with his “heart-wrenching decision” of suspending his campaign. My point is, what if instead of speculating, arguing, and pushing against each other, we start praying, meditating, and wrestling with our own wizard behind the green curtain in order to facilitate the best, highest, and most optimal outcome - for ourselves, our children, and our communities? Only our Divine inner authority can bring us home to the warmth of true promise. That’s because it is the purest form of guidance unwavering by the cold, unhealed aspects of ourselves.
So I encourage you… Ask for healing, deliberately leave the loop of your fears, doubts, and angers, and dig deep within yourself to do some Soul searching. Sway yourself away from all of the arguing, name-calling, fear-mongering, and loud voices of the collective chatter so that you can find the purest, most resonant, and radiant answer within. Turn your attention and energy towards a brighter horizon, leaving the fading darkness behind. This is how we heal the political divide.
Looking into the Future
A few months ago, I was given four premonitions of Election Day. So far two out of four have come to pass…
Biden is out of the presidential race.
The Democratic party is in chaos.
Trump is present but suspended in action.
An illuminating event surprises the collective awareness.
The future is malleable. Timelines are constantly shifting. It is up to us to attune our focus of energy and thought towards the most optimal outcome for humanity otherwise, fate will seemingly choose for us.
In closing, I leave you with a quote my colleague reminded me of the other day:
“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.”
Let’s work miracles. Shall we?
- Natasha Sol
(1) Chun Siong Soon, Chun; Brass, Marcel; Heinze, Hans-Jochen; Haynes, John-Dylan, “Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain,” Nature Neuroscience, 2008.
(2) Lewis.Cathy, “More than Half of U.S. Adults Don’t Know Heart Disease is Leading Cause of Death, Despite 100-Year Reign,” American Heart Association, 2024.
(3) “World Heart Report: Confronting the World’s Number One Killer,” World-Heart Federation, 2023.
(4) Hay,Louise, You Can Heal Your Life, Hay House, Inc., 1999, pg. 197.
(5) Sol, Natasha, The Way of Energy Alchemy, 2024, pg. 21.