in the body or psyche as a whole (as in the case of the rats); and memories are not fixed, objective realities, but selective, creative and linked to emotion.


What does this mean for healing? Certainly many esoteric systems correlate the heart to the place where grief is stored literally as a thing, as energy; or the gut to where shock is stored, for example. To add complexity, we know from organ transplants that recipients often awaken from surgery with preferences and memories of the donor. In one case1


a girl receiving a


heart from a murder victim suddenly had memories of the murder, and her recall was detailed enough that she was able to assist detectives in the case… all from the heart of the murdered girl being in her body.2


A liver recipient entirely changed


her immune system, including blood type. The study of organ transplant-induced memories is not entirely understood from


a science point of view, but those of us who do bodywork understand it well from an experiential point of view. In any case, what is clear from


observation is that the body as a whole remembers. It doesn’t seem to be the case that people with heart transplants only have memories of the donor’s grief, for example. Recipients seem to have a fairly random selection of memories, emotions, and tastes, which implies more aptly that each body part contains knowledge of the whole… that memories are diffused throughout the entire body, and if you take out any part, it will contain memories of the whole. Back to Karl Lashley and his rats. I find it useful to explain it thus: rather


than say that an emotion we can identify as x is stored in the body part we identify as y, it’s more apt to say that a memory has a particular consequence for a body part. So a person stores grief, for example, throughout the body. But grief has a particular effect on the heart and lungs, whereas trauma or fear have a particular effect on the abdominal/psoas area. This is why, when a


practitioner is focused on a specific body part (whether with acupuncture, massage, de-armouring, or any other body-based modality), there is often an emotional release that is linked to a memory. It is also why a release associated even with


just one area of the body, can have such overall healing effects! Hopefully this explanation will give you


a little more confidence when exploring somatic modalities, as well as some insight into our bodies’ amazing capacity for healing. n


1. NaturalNews.com, organ transplants 2. medicaldaily.com, organ transplant


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