Unconscious fears - Unconscious levels - Guilt and punishment - Guilt - Herminio Castellá

Unconscious fears

Herminio Castellá

Fear is an emotion that is associated with a danger, but generally we are not aware of that relationship since that association is at the unconscious level.

For that relationship to exist, there must have been a whole learning process, we cannot be afraid of something that we do not have in our mind as dangerous or painful. Therefore, these situations that we are afraid of refer us to similar situations experienced, either by us or by our ancestors of the life plan that forms our unconscious.

The fears that are most strongly engraved in our unconscious are generally those that are associated with death (what our unconscious interprets as the danger of death). These fears refer us to situations where there were deaths and what was suffered by it, but it is not exactly death in its deep meaning, as a natural biological function, with all the internal action that implies, but by how it was lived by those they accompanied that death, how were the previous moments, the associated feelings and the fear of dying. At that time our mind protects us from what it interprets as the danger of death.

Death as a biological function strictly we could not have unconscious fear, since no one alive experienced it to transmit it and the few who experienced the previous moments do not just indicate that it was unpleasant. The essential thing about this is that, if a situation is unconsciously associated with the danger of death, our unconscious reacts to protect our life.

Fear causes physical reactions in our body, depresses the sympathetic system and exalts the parasympathetic. All defense functions are alerted and those that are not are depressed. From the point of view of our unconscious levels, the information stored in the defense level is enhanced. At this level we have information related to fears, suffering, danger. (one)

Faced with a situation that scares us, we may not face it (run away), we can face it, and a third way would be to stop having that fear. The three attitudes must be analyzed, since neither per se is better than the other, but the best choice will depend on the moment and the situation. If there is an unconscious fear, which at that time I am not in a position to face, I may not face it momentarily and then face it differently; in that case the flight would be good. It's good to be afraid and run away if a lion chases me. If in a situation that scares me, he has no reason to be and I face it, I try to calm down and think that it is not logical to be afraid, this attitude is enriching. This would be to face the situation, not in the sense of putting ourselves against fear, but of taking the determination to try not to get carried away by that fear. The experience of having faced it, even with limited success, can lead us to relativize fear.

For example, if a person is afraid to speak in public and knows that he has something to say and also that it is not logical to have that fear, he can face that situation and decide to speak. At the moment it can result in: speaking well, regularly or badly, but it would be very difficult not to get rich from that situation since it may even have spoken very badly and that part of the audience has understood. Keep in mind that sometimes fear is such that it paralyzes us completely.

The third attitude would be to stop having that fear. This is to make a discipline of internal reflection, look for and analyze the reason for fears, what is the unconscious cause that leads us to have that fear and then reason it positively, which causes us to go establishing a pause between the stimulus and the response. This does not imply changing what we have programmed in the life plan, but changing the way of responding. We could say that we learn to respond differently to that same stimulus.

Returning to the example of the person who is afraid to speak in public, this third attitude would involve looking for what situations of the unconscious led him to have that fear. We would have to consider that someone we have recorded in our life plan spoke publicly, it went badly and he had to suffer for it etc. It could have happened that the husband of an ancestor was the one who spoke in public and the wife suffered the consequences. We would also have to think what it means in our life plan, let me know, let our ideas be known, be criticized etc. Speaking to a large number of people implies that at least one third of that large audience will be against what we say. (3)

The influence of our fears

Fear is not a bad thing in itself. There are fears that come to us from very distant ancestors, even some are earlier than human beings and that come from animals. There are different types of fears, some are of the species and others of the races or social groups. These would be associated with the seventh level (2) while there are other personal fears (whose information is on the fourth level). Fears are part of our structure and are the ones that sometimes drive us to do things and explain in a certain way our vocation, our tendencies etc. We can say that a doctor is a doctor because he loves health but also because he is afraid of the disease, depending on the angle he has analyzed; or in an economist we can find within his life plan fear that society is poor, at the same time that we will find in him the love for the development of society; in a lawyer love of justice and fear of injustice etc.

Of course, the fears associated with vocations are multiple. A thriving entrepreneur may have in his unconscious addition to love of progress, several associated fears such as fear of being poor, fear of suffering for not being rich, fear of not having power, danger of death for not having money etc.

Dr. H. Castell said that if something has to be given to us and not given to us, it is because we are afraid of it. In other words, if we are old enough to be married and we are not, it is because we are afraid of marriage. If a couple wants to have a child and cannot, it is because they are afraid of having it. If someone wants to have more money and does not have it, it is because they are afraid of having that amount of money, etc. He also said that if we should like something and we don't like it, it's because you were afraid of it.

The human being is the great manufacturer of dangers where there are none, they are artificial fears that have no reason to be. We believe that there is danger where it does not exist and where other people around us do not believe that there are any and does not have any problem for it.

Shyness is a form of fear, it is associated with the fear of punishment. The shy is afraid, among other things, to make mistakes, because that is why they punish him. In your life plan you will surely find strong punishments.

Two kinds of shy people can be distinguished, the one who fears others and the one who fears himself. In the latter, if his fear is not very intense, he transmits to others to protect him and is a person who pleases others. He who is afraid of others transmits that he wants to destroy the other, so he does not like him and is rejected by others.

Foolish fears are cultural constructions that come from situations we have recorded, which in another generation may have been really dangerous but are not now. Many of these fears are intensifying from generation to generation.

When there is depression, an important element is guilt. This always brings up great punishments in ancestor. The fault as always explained H. Castellá is waiting for a punishment, feeling helpless to avoid it.

How to solve our fears:

The loss of fear is not only in trying to stop being afraid, it is not only in looking for the causes in our life plan and reasoning them in a positive way, but also in facing the situation and trying to change it. If we seek only to reverse fears, then once we are not afraid to start acting, what we are doing is in some way a form of escape from fear.

The resolution to start acting even if you have fears and that this action includes the task of losing your fears would be the right attitude and that courage enriches and humanizes us.

It is also important to face fear with humility, this makes us recognize that we carry that fear but that it is not something absolute. Humility allows us to clearly see to what extent this fear harms us or not in order to achieve the objectives we desire. Returning to the aforementioned example of public speaking, if the person assumes the situation with humility, it can happen that even in the case that the person speaks in a totally lackluster way, he can transmit the idea he wanted to communicate, perhaps not with the force that would have done without fear. But humility leads him to that, conscious of carrying that fear, he does not deprive himself of acting and may even lead him to separate other "sub-objectives" that may be present; such as “show off in the exhibition” (which other implicit fears may have), to concentrate on the simple objective of transmitting the idea. Humility leads us to demystify the scope of fear, to give it its real dimension that is generally smaller than we believe.

But this is not all. Dr. Gabriel Castellá at a conference on fears (August 1, 2000 CAMED) developed a concept that seemed to me at the somewhat extreme time, but after listening to the rest of the conference, it ended up looking like something basic: he said that To lose our fears, the first attitude we have to have is to love our fears, which is nothing other than loving ourselves with our fears. He then explained that a fear cannot be reversed from fear because that would have as a logical consequence to reinforce that fear.

If we love our fears we see them with a totally different perspective, we understand that they are there for something and for something, that the same causes that caused those fears may cause us favorable things. Taking this attitude can lead us to even our foolish fears and unconscious causes give us grace instead of bitterness.

As for these fears that have no reason to be and that can be harmful to us, it is important to discover in ourselves when we are in a situation that is based on one or more fears. If we look closely throughout the day these situations are many, many of our acts are influenced by fears, we act very often in terms of fear (at least that is my experience) and not in terms of the positive. The important thing is to discover it and realize that this attitude has a wrong approach. The opposite of acting out of fear is acting for the goodness of things.

If we look closely we can realize that many times we are alarmed, distressed, upset, irritated, etc., and we don't realize why we are used to that situation. Sometimes these states are very subtle but we feel relieved to become aware. This is extremely important because it gives us the opportunity to change the attitude, to know our fears to stop having them, but also to transform that fear into something valuable for us because among other things the fears contain a lot of energy, which until then is oriented in blocking us

We must learn to face life without fear, not solve only a particular fear. Changing fears that we have recorded from many generations ago is a matter of much perseverance and a matter of constant attitude.

Pedro A. Galeazzi

(This work was carried out based on lectures given by Dr. Gabriel Castellá)

(1) Dr. Herminio Castellá discovered an unconscious level in which all information referring to fears, pain, suffering, dangers, etc. is stored. The function of this level is defense. I call it fourth level. He managed to train people who in a hypnotic state concentrate on the information and attitude of this level.

(2) The seventh level is the level of fears of the species, at this level are the data of the great catastrophes, famines, genocides, epidemics, cataclysms and wars.

(3) The "law of thirds" indicates that in every human relationship an individual has a third in favor, a third fluctuating and another against. Optimally, the fluctuating third is in favor, but never the third against will be in favor.

Unconscious levels

Herminio Castellá

We have already developed in a previous work the concept of unconscious within what is our mood and in contrast and complementarity with consciousness.

Dr. Herminio Castellá discovered in his first investigations more than 30 years ago * that the information we have stored in our unconscious not only comes from our experiences but we also have a great background that our mother transmitted to us when developing a life program for U.S. As she in turn has her own life program elaborated by her mother (our maternal grandmother), and her mother of our great grandmother and so on, our life plan has information of ancestral experiences and quite remote data has been found in time .

There is no certainty about how this information is stored, it has not even been possible to determine the biological place where the unconscious is located since the mood plane transcends the biological plane. What is known is that what each mother transmits when developing the life program are essentially emotional experiences and not abstract thoughts or reasoning. And it has also been discovered that the temporal dimension does not exist in the unconscious; that dimension is given by the conscience. This is extremely important because it allows us to understand that there are experiences lived hundreds of years ago that for our unconscious are as current as those we are living now.

In his first experiences with hypnosis (technique that allows us to access the unconscious) Dr. Castellá made another discovery: in the unconscious there are different levels that differ from each other by their function and by the quality of information they have stored inside.

Herminio Castellá numbered these levels and called awareness first.

The second level is a bridge between the other unconscious levels and consciousness and is called the subconscious. When consciousness begins to lower we are at that level.

That level communicates directly with our third unconscious level, which is called a classifier, which connects with four levels in which all our ancestral and personal information is stored. This information is stored in four levels according to the quality of the experience, and it is the classifier level that orders the information stored and that provides the necessary information for the answers we give.

The four levels in which we have the information stored are: the level of defense (fourth level), the level of peace (fifth level), the level of wisdom (sixth level) and the martial or defense level of the species.

At the level of defense, all the information that is related to the experiences that were lived as dangerous, that damaged the psychic or physical integrity of our ancestors or their loved ones is recorded, always with the intention of protecting us so that they do not happen again . Its main function is to defend ourselves according to what was transmitted that was a threat to us. It is a level with a lot of push and vigor. When we feel fear, guilt, anger, anxiety or anguish we reinforce this level and strengthen your information.

At the level of peace, information related to spiritual harmony and inner peace is recorded. The function of this level is to provide serenity and joy. All genuine experiences of love, friendship, true joy, authentic religiosity are stored on this level and are a real treasure.

On the sixth level our wisdom is engraved. Not only as a cluster of knowledge, but as that which leads us to discover the valuable, that gives life flavor. From this level the best strategies for the development of being are developed.

Information related to the defense of the species, experiences in disasters, wars, epidemics, famines, etc. is stored at the martial level. The greatest internal violence is at this level and is a level of extreme survival whose function is to protect us as a social group in the limit moments.

Finally there would be a last level called coordinator or eighth level that does not contain ancestral information and whose function is to harmonize and coordinate the four levels described above. It is a deeper level but more related to consciousness, from the depths it helps it to give more adequate answers. Dr. Gabriel Castellá calls it "the engine oil".

These levels are not watertight compartments and are closely related to each other. The fourth and seventh levels have similar functions and reinforce each other; the fifth allows the sixth to emerge as wisdom needs a serene attitude. The third and eighth balance these levels.

When a person experiences a certain experience, the feelings are recorded in the four levels according to how he felt them. And in turn, with his attitude, he promotes all the experiences stored at that level. Therefore, if one is walking on a dark street and is afraid, this is because the information that a dark street is dangerous is recorded on the level of defense. If I feed that fear I will help all related fears to surface. If I calm down, the other levels will help me give adequate answers. And this is even more important if the fear is senseless, that is, if the danger is not real. If the danger is real, it is appropriate to give consistent, avoidant responses, for example.

Andrea Mussini

Blame and punishment

Herminio Castellá

Blame is waiting for a punishment feeling helpless to avoid it. It is an unconscious feeling, and most of the time we consciously cooperate to strengthen or increase that fear.

We feel guilty because we notice that we did something wrong or we think we did something wrong. It is the general feeling that overwhelms us when we are aware of our faults, mistakes or sins.

Herminio Castellá used to say that when we make a mistake, we are taking a wrong path that does not lead us where we want to go. If we become aware of it, we can correct the error and return to the road and this, he said, would have to fill us with joy since we have learned something valuable that allows us to grow and improve. By assuming error as it really is and taking responsibility for its consequences, we preserve our dignity as human beings and rise.

In the event that our act has been really bad, it is useless to feel guilty because we do not correct the mistake we made against ourselves and others; With guilt we negatively mark this act, we become impoverished, thereby harming ourselves and others to a greater extent than if we were not to blame.

In the face of a mistake I can proceed with guilt or regret; one thing does not follow the other, but one cancels the other. Both in guilt and in repentance there is an acknowledgment of error, but while with guilt I annul and impoverish myself as a human being, in repentance I learn from error and, instead of suffering, I feel joy.

When I become aware of my behavior and truly regret it, I put the accent on the other, the neighbor who has been harmed by my work, I worry about remedying the fault charitably. Guilt, by contrast, is a selfish feeling in which I cannot look away from my acting and feeling, and where consideration for the other appears only for fear of the punishment of which I believe I will be a victim. It is not love for myself and neighbor that moves my feeling, but fear and devaluation.

Herminio Castellá said that guilt was an act of pride, because the human being feels that his work has been so disastrous that he does not deserve forgiveness from anyone, much less from God, which implies (even if the subject does not realize) an attitude of putting oneself in God's place to determine what acts deserve forgiveness.

Proceeding from guilt is an irresponsible proceeding, since guilt, although it seems otherwise, is a lack of responsibility. The word responsibility derives from responding, is assuming what I do, right or wrong.

Regarding the life plan more specifically, if an ancestor, from our mother line of ancestry, made a mistake (a fault or a sin, depending on how she looks at it) and felt guilty about it, this feeling guilty was her more serious error, since not only did she harm herself, disturbing the possibility of a clear regret and correction of the error and its consequences, but also recorded in herself, in her own unconscious, that feeling of guilt in this situation, transmitting it to their descendants through the mother-subsidiary chain of the life program. We get these feelings of guilt from our ancestors (among many other things). There may even be a generalized empowerment of guilt where an ancestor feels guilty in the face of a fact, the same thing happens to a descendant and feels more guilty, and so on, establishing a training and empowerment of guilt through generations. This training has been promoted by our culture, which has instilled the learning of good through a condemnation to reinforce the avoidance of evil, with which it is not possible for people to love doing good for true love of neighbor and God, but that avoid doing evil so as not to suffer. When they do not succeed, something that happens often since life is a constant learning in which error plays a very important role, one tends to feel fear, panic because it is believed that one does not deserve to feel good about the evil that He has done and also that soon a painful sanction will come as reprisal. The wait for punishment causes such anguish that to avoid it we need to suffer and for this we punish ourselves in some way.

There is a whole culture of guilt and pain (which comes from those sanctions and sentences with which it was intended to reinforce expected behaviors); According to this information we have recorded, the pain takes away our guilt, the impotence to avoid the sentence is worse than the punishment itself, therefore if we feel any pain, we are relieved.

Guilt promotes neurotic learning. When I deny myself, I do not learn and when I find myself facing similar circumstances again, I will probably make the same mistake again.

We can feel guilty unconsciously for an infinite number of things, punctual or generic. For example, I can feel guilty for eating a treat, and that the cause goes back to what some ancestor felt was punished for eating a treat. But the most common is that the fault comes from situations that are not exactly similar and that it is something more general; In this case, the punishment for eating a treat is transmitted and received as guilt for eating something rich, and more generally, as fault of enjoying.

The list of situations for which we can feel guilty would be very large, the most widespread among us could be: to decide, to enjoy, to value ourselves, to progress, to have wealth, to act, not to act, etc. they situations in which we have not even made a mistake, but that were associated with some wrongdoing that brought great suffering in some ancestor.

Usually there is a relationship between enjoying, deciding and evaluating, this is what Dr. Herminio Castellá defined as guilt trilogy. This relationship strongly recorded in our unconscious comes from situations in which these three factors are present and occurs specifically because of a fault of sexual origin. If any of our ancestors committed a sexual offense, and felt guilty about it, in the first place, to commit it, he had to make a decision, he also did it to be valued and enjoyed sexually. Subsequent guilt causes fear to make decisions, devaluation and fear or inability to enjoy.

Guilt in our society has a background of misunderstanding of the religious concept of sin. It was believed that God was offended by sin and that is why He punished us. In my opinion, sin does not offend God, but it hurts ourselves and others. God is perfect and therefore cannot be offended, because offending is a mistake and God does not make mistakes.

Guilt is a feeling that favors illness, if we feel unconsciously guilty of the action of some organ in the body, we tend to make it sick. For example: if an ancestor felt guilty in the face of a breast caress, after unconscious training, a descendant who also feels guilty can get her breasts sick in some way. A disease that is associated with a strong sense of guilt over several generations is cancer.

The opposite feeling of guilt is that of healthy self-pride, pride strengthens our health.

Guilt depresses us, makes us sick and cancels in all aspects. We always have to feel deserving of who we are, of what we have or want to have, in all aspects and be proud of it.

All of us are more guilty of something in general terms. Perhaps the origin of the fault is very remote, and it is changing shape throughout history. If in a primitive society, a person committed an antisocial act, probably the best way for him or another to commit it again was to punish him and the unconscious culture marks him as fear of that punishment if a fault is committed. It teaches a pet to do certain things. Then society throughout history makes it more sophisticated.

Guilt is a wrong feeling, the human being must work good for the good that is good, and that is freedom.

Pedro A. Galeazzi

Reflection work based on lectures by Dr. Herminio Castellá

The sense of guilt

Herminio Castellá

The feeling of guilt has been growing and accompanying humanity since it has conscience and since it began to take more prominence, leaving the irrational instincts with less preponderance.

In order to understand guilt, I will try to develop the following example: we will have to place ourselves some time back; we can imagine five centuries in the past, in any country of the European continent, where people when making mistakes it was very difficult to talk in a free and philosophical way and matters could end in confrontations with very serious consequences between people and a In a more daily way, mistakes were paid with the same life.

Personally I imagined a passage from the history of an ancestor or ancestor who had committed a crime that could be considered "serious" at that time, was aware of what he had done and felt that guilt was seizing him; then, as a result of this, the people of the town or the relatives of the affected person were confessed or someone who she or he considered "should" do it, until such time it could have confessed said error to a religious authority being this for example a Cure, if it were a Catholic town, to expire its fault. Here I want to mean that if so, we can add the component of spiritual guilt.

But the people of the town or the authorities reacted to the fact of the error and their confession, with revenge and hatred, being able to kill, even causing this person to suffer great suffering considering that the errors would be paid.

The message that is collected and that remains of facts such as the aforementioned is that it is better to live with guilt than to confess, because ultimately this keeps you alive and with less suffering, so it is so that we have implanted that we arrive alive until the present, that thanks to living with guilt we are alive and continue with our offspring.

An additional information that I could see is that if you feel "guilty" you feel that you are alive: it is a continuous "test" that you live and there is less danger of dying. From this point of view there is a very large assessment of the guilt on the part of each person's unconscious; it is seen that it is the "tool" that kept us and our ancestors alive. But what is not seen is that because of having too much blame for what was done, torture and death were suffered.

The important thing, as in all the topics that encompass Dr. Herminio Castellá's theory, is to accept guilt without fear, without horror, becoming aware that it exists, it is part of our nature as fears and aggression are and the intelligence.

The important thing is to give it space and let it express itself, in this way it can purge so many years of loneliness and terror; it must be valued with much affection, it is not there by its own decision or because someone “bad” installed it: it was formed and learned that it was always hated and repudiated and that it was always part of us as any part we want to consider. We have to understand each other in guilt, let him tell us what is happening to him, because he was born, grew up and is in us. Esto es algo tan importante para dejar de temer y de paralizarnos y comprender que es como una gran lastimadura que debemos curar y atender con mucho afecto para que se transforme en nuestra aliada y amiga que es lo que ha esperado siempre.

Me gustar a tambi n agregar que cuando estamos en paz sin el sentimiento de culpa al que hice referencia, sin sentirnos en falta con nada sino, al contrario, nos sentimos en armon a para vivir y sentir que todo es posible, nos sentimos relajados, con bienestar y tranquilidad, tomamos conciencia de que estamos a la puerta de realizar muchas acciones que siempre quisimos y tenemos la potencia de la libertad. Quiero recalcar esto que me parece important simo: tenemos la potencia de la libertad pero en contraposici n no tenemos los l mites que nos muestra en distintas formas de sentimiento (miedos, ansiedad, etc) la culpa y all es donde sentimos un abismo de totalidad. Esto es como si lleg semos a poder entrar en el universo sin las ataduras de la gravedad es decir no hay ning nl mite que nos contenga como tampoco un destino preestablecido al que llegar, es por esto que entramos en un miedo al que podemos llamar el miedo de atracci n de la culpa, porque nos aterroriza el poder de la libertad absoluta en donde nuestra responsabilidad es tan grande como esta libertad, es la exigencia de nosotros mismos por el bien puro, perfecto desde nuestra imperfecta humanidad, el tener que tomar decisiones en un campo virgen que nos espera, en un campo inexplorado nunca jam s visitado pero que est all para nosotros y adem s nos encontramos impulsados con la fuerza arrolladora de la libertad absoluta, con la fuerza de que podemos hacer lo que queramos y como efecto de esto el responder por nuestros actos y decisiones pero sin tener un marco precio de contenci n.

Aqu es donde entra la culpa como un freno, como un delimitador del sendero a seguir pero respondiendo con lo que se aprendi de las experiencias de nuestros antepasados muy traum ticas y angustiantes y siempre aparece con el sentido de preservarnos, de que no volvamos a cometer los errores de atr sy es por esto que la culpa tiene una fuerza muy grande y se presenta con tanta potencia, al encontrarse con las posibilidades de la libertad y alimentado por ese sentimiento de abismo de totalidad y el de poder arriesgar, decidir y responsabilizarse. Cuando podemos comprender y analizar con mucho afecto esto, la culpa se transforma en aliada acompa ndonos en nuestro camino haciendo de vig a, alertando en donde pudieran aparecer peligros: es como un sensor que se adelanta a nuestro andar y va rastrillando los espacios de influencia . Lo peor que podemos hacer en este caso es negarla o dejar que pase ese sentimiento angustiante y actuar creyendo que ese sentimiento no nos est alertando, lo importante es acogerla y escucharla en su justa medida debido a que su informaci n es muy valiosa como as tambi n el sentido de su presencia.

Pablo Mat as Duran