Question: My daughter has trouble reading. She has what they call dyslexia. In an effort to understand this more I researched this and here is what I found. Dyslexics cannot understand words that do not have mental images associated with them. When reading a sentence or words such as “how”, “the”, “much” and many more, that do not have mental images associated with them, and can cause their mind’s eye to disorient and confusion takes place. In other words, their subconscious mind has no visual image for the word and it causes the mind’s eye to disorient. When their mind’s eye disorients it is said that they can see letters moving off the page or even the letters start to bend. They can see the letters three-dimensionally and they can move and this is why they see the word “was” and they actually see “saw” and pronounce it as “saw”. They can actually visualize words backwards very easily. This is also said to cause them to switch letters like B and D. In one program I found, by Ron Davies, who had dyslexia, they are taught to get their mind’s eye on point before reading. This is just a center point for focus. Can the masters comment on any of this? Can they give any insight into the causes of this? Are there karmic reasons? It is said that not all people are visual people and I wonder if this is purely what makes reading difficult? Is there a correlation in having this to how evolved a lifestream is in terms of the sense of separation? What are the causes that makes someone more visual?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.
Well, my beloved, a complex issue but let us start in a simple way. Many people have trauma from past lives that has caused them to create separate selves that disconnect them somewhat from the physical world, the physical realm. You will see many people, for example, who are what you might call dreamers, who always seem to be somewhere else in their minds, thinking about other things. They have often become artists of some kind, poets, what have you. But this is because they have this deep trauma from a past life, they have these separate selves that really cause them not to want to engage with the physical world or not to want to get too close to the physical world. This is not the only reason for dyslexia but it is a common reason that the people, the children, are not really focused, anchored in the physical world. When they are reading, it is almost as if they are reading from a distance, they are not really looking at the paper, looking at the letters, looking at the words.
It is not just a matter of being visual or not, it is actually more a matter of being focused on the physical. All people can have a certain amount of dyslexia, you can have when you are reading and you pronounce a word wrong, or you read the word wrong or you mix up letters. But you can learn to overcome this by focusing on the physical. It may help some children to take an image, whether it be “how” or “this” and create a silly mental image, you can use the same image you use for certain memory techniques, where you take an image and associate it with a certain word, in order to remember it better. But really, it is a matter of coming to a point where you are more focused in the physical.
This can be difficult for a child obviously, you cannot necessarily make a child understand past lives and separate selves, but you can help the child in various ways to trick its mind into focusing on the physical while it is reading. It is almost as if the child does not want to read, does not want to focus on the physical, does not want to put forth the mental effort to read, it does not want to get out of its shell, out of its cocoon. You can help the child with this. Some children grow out of it. Many children start being not really fully anchored in the physical and then gradually become more focused on the physical as they grow a little older.
You can attempt to talk to the child about this, attempt to try to have them explain how they see the world, how they see the words, because it is a matter of making a connection in the child’s mind between a word and the meaning of the word. This is obviously easier with the word “apple”, that refers to a physical thing that a child can sense. But it can be done with all words. Because in a sense, what you need to do in order to read is you need to realize that you need to learn, you need to create a process whereby the mind naturally and effortlessly sees a connection between this abstract squiggle on the paper and a combination of several of these abstract squiggles into a word.
Now, you will notice that the child has, in most cases, no trouble speaking. It is only when reading, because there is not that process of connecting the abstract letters to the word that is not as abstract because the child can speak a sentence and therefore understands what it means in a sentence. There is more that could be said about this but this is what I want to give for now. I do want to say that it is not really helpful for anyone to try to make a connection between this phenomenon and people’s attainment or lack of it. It is not really a matter of attainment or lack of attainment, it is more a matter of what the child has been exposed to in past lives.
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