Your Organs Have Memory
- Brainz Magazine
- Aug 31, 2024
- 7 min read
Veronica is a Holistic Trauma Specialist. She is a qualified BodyTalk Practitioner, qualified TRE Provider and utilises quantum field talk therapy to help her clients address and understand trauma, and how it manifests in their body (physically, mentally and emotionally).
The body is an ever-changing and adapting vehicle that is designed to protect and nourish us as we go through the experience of life. When we experience situations, positive or negative, our body absorbs this information. The body processes the experiences based on a variety of factors, and we have a physical response.
However, our brain isn’t the only part of the body that is able to process and hold information. Below, we explore how the cells in our bodies, and on a larger scale, the organs hold the memories of what we have experienced and dealt with, or not dealt with.
But isn’t the brain the only organ that holds memory?
The widespread belief was that memories are only stored in the hippocampus, located in the brain’s temporal lobe. At present, there are two parallel theories:
Body Memory (BM) is a hypothesis that the body itself can hold memories. This can be understood as how we remember through the body rather than about the body.
Cellular Memory (CM) is a hypothesis that memories can be held outside of the brain and thus for example, liver cells can hold memory and not only the cells in brain tissue.
In fact, these are not entirely new theories. The idea of cells holding memory has been written about as far back as the 17th century. It has, however, received more attention as organ transplants have shown us how those organs can retain memory.
Science has provided evidence that the nervous system creates and stores memory. Major organs, such as the heart and liver contain large neural networks (this is an important note when looking at memory, as memories are stored by changing neuron connections). Let us take a look at some information and an example about organs that have retained memory when transplanted.
Organ transplant, memory transplant?
There are numerous examples of and documented cases of transplant patients who have woken up after an organ transplant with a variety of new aspects. These range from a change in preferences for food and music, to new personality characteristics, and even a change in behaviors that is likened to their donors. One such example is an individual who believed her onset of an eating disorder, which started after the organ transplant, was due to her organ donor (who also suffered from an eating disorder).
One of the most intriguing examples is that of an 8-year-old girl, who received the heart of a 10-year-old girl who was murdered. The transplant was a success, but immediately afterward she started having vivid nightmares. Her dreams were about being chased as she was running through the woods, a man attacked her and spoke a few words to her before killing her. These dreams were so recurrent that her parents sought psychological help, it was then identified that these dreams were in fact not dreams; they were characteristics of memory. With the help of a forensic team, they were able to draw a sketch of the man and it was circulated to authorities. He was later apprehended and ended up confessing to the crime. When he was questioned about the details, his story matched what she had recounted to the authorities; and even more interesting are the words he confessed to saying to her, were exactly what the little 8-year-old girl had dreamt.
This is a very chilling case, but it does give us a good idea of how memory is stored outside of brain tissue, as well as how impactful organ memory can be.
In effect, the behavior, memory, and thoughts from the organ are now merged with those of the person who received the new organ. And so is their energy.
What does this mean for the body?
Every single organ has an energy and vibrates at a frequency.
Every cell has a frequency, and when we look at a group of cells, they vibrate as a whole. This is very much representative of the body. It is the sum of it’s parts, so the energy of the organs, body parts, body systems and endocrine glands combined create the frequency of the body. The energy of the above is determined by many factors such as nutrition, chemical exposure that is so rife in our modern world, life experience, and the degree to which we have processed our life experiences (or not processed them, i.e., suppressed, avoided), belief systems, cellular memories passed down generationally, etc. When one body part, organ, etc., is struggling, this can and will affect how the entire body vibrates and, thus, the health of the individual.
Any part of the body may hold memory, depending on the situation and the type of traumatic incident. The larger organs have more of an impact, energetically on the body and how it operates. This is not to say that a smaller body part is not important, all have a place in the body. It is just to state that there are certain organs that are more powerful, not just physically but energetically. (you can live without a baby toe but you cannot live without a heart, same concept).
It is no accident that the organs with the most neural pathways and thus the ability to store memory are also the most powerful energetically and have their own consciousness. When one of these organs or body parts stores a memory of a traumatic incident, the consciousness is affected. Trauma is one’s absorption of the event, not specifically the event itself. An organ can, for example, hold a memory of loss, and thus, grief is held in the relevant organ, or it can hold a belief system of powerlessness. The frequency of grief (that has an energetic of 75 according to the map of consciousness by Dr. David Hawkins) will reduce the overall frequency of the organ as the grief is sitting there at a log of 75, whereas it is likely that the entire body-mind complex holds a higher frequency. This is why it is imperative to understand what is happening in one’s body, below the surface.
When we look at organ donor transplants, what is needed is the slow and easy integration of the organ into the body’s energy system. Think of you joining a new company. You need time to adapt to the team, you pick up on how things run, etc. If there is a “bad apple,” it affects the whole. Just an example of how things are the sum of its parts. So, with organ donors, we look at the body as a whole, what frequency is competing (i.e., the frequency of the new organ to the rest of the body), and how to integrate the energies. Note that this is not always a problem or negative. In fact, it may sometimes bring a breath of life, such as a well-nourished set of lungs, good nutritional habits, and so forth. This will shift the body as a whole in a positive way. Nevertheless, we need to be aware of what the body is dealing with.
Knowledge is power, and it enables you to sit in the driver’s seat, as opposed to steering your life and body from an unconscious perspective.
How does trauma affect organ memory and the body?
In a nutshell. The trauma is held as a memory in the body via cellular memory. The body is designed to protect itself. You cut yourself, your skin bleeds, white blood cells rush to the area to fight any potential infection, your blood coagulates and then the healing process starts. When we talk about trauma, our body, specifically our nervous system is designed to be on constant lookout for danger cues. So it will store a memory of experiences, from situations where we feel unsafe in a small way (such as not feeling comfortable to express oneself genuinely in front of certain people) to a large way (such as avoiding driving after a large car accident). Trauma enters when we become stuck. When we cut ourselves, the body protects the area of potential threat and it heals, when we go through a traumatic event, the body protects the area and we shut down (i.e., we do not heal). This is a normal response to a traumatic incident and is very useful at the time, however, healing cannot occur if one remains shut down, or in any trauma pattern.
This inability to move forward creates a trauma pattern, which creates a break in the energy system in our body.
A specific organ could have experienced a very traumatic event, such as a uterus experiencing a stillbirth. That organ will hold that memory and it will affect how the organs vibrates, depression may set in within that organ and it may affect the entire reproductive system going forward. This is very common with women trying to conceive after loss. The mind may have dealt with the loss and grief, but the body has not.
We live in a world of toxic positivity, where avoidance and suppression are covered by a plaster of positivity. While it is of utmost importance to hold the end result as a positive one and hold a firm belief in a good, strong, and healthy outcome, we must ensure we do not use positivity as a form of escapism, the same one would alcohol or video gaming. We would then inadvertently not end up seeing the end positive, healthy, and strong result as we have not dealt with the unconscious factor. Remember what is going on in the subconscious mind (and organs) hold 90% more power than the conscious mind.
Again, knowledge is power. The knowledge of what our body is going through, gives us an understanding, the ability to see our body as a vehicle that is always working for us (not against us) reconstructs our relationship with our bodies, and the result is an attitude of grace and compassion towards ourselves.
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Veronica di Muro Merchak, Holistic Trauma Specialist
Veronica has a unique approach to trauma as Holistic Trauma Specialist. She combines her personal experience, her academic qualifications, her professional experience, and her in depth intuitive understanding of people to help them navigate their individual situations. An important focus of hers, is to empower her clients so they understand how trauma was received by their individual body and above all; how it is possible to move forward, in an unapologetic and gracefully powerful way.
