1 :: ‘The tyranny of the past’*(a term used by Peter Levine): trauma weighs us down with a lifetime of unprocessed feelings. If we wish to be lighter our task is simple, albeit not easy: learn to feel again; shed the past. ::
2 :: Trauma is often not dramatic. Subtle indoctrination to the young boy that he must be exclusively masculine: this too is traumatic, for the boy inevitably shames himself for being half feminine inside. Now he must spent his life recovering his anima. ::
3 :: Trauma would be much easier to resolve if we could only see clearly that we are dealing exclusively with illusions. The consistent recognition that the moment is always Now (and that the past lives on only in our bodies and our imagination) can aid this. ::
4 :: Why is it so hard for a fed, clothed, physically safe human being to sit still for 4 hours?: trauma. The past wants to be reckoned with, to be released from the system. ::
5 :: Trauma lives in the body. This includes the toes, the fingertips, the face, and the scalp of the head. It is everywhere. We have no idea how constricted we are by the unmet past. ::
6 :: Healing trauma means closing energetic loops: feeling what was left unfelt, and relinquishing the lies we told ourselves to explain what occurred. ::
7 :: Spiritual awakening – conscious evolution – involves vast trauma processing that includes such mundane things as releasing shame about being a messy eater. In the end, no stone will be left unturned. ::
8 :: The heart closes when the trauma-body is triggered. A pure, non-judgemental, detached, surrendered awareness – of the unmet pain, and perhaps also the story associated – returns us back to the present, to peace. The heart may then reopen. ::
9 :: To begin healing is simple: create or find a space in which you feel as safe as possible to turn inwards. Music can help greatly with this (my go-to is the album Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins, and I found being in the bath, home alone, to feel like a very safe space to let go). Speak sincerely to your body that you are ready to release. You will be healed. ::
10 :: The molested becomes the molestor. The oppressed becomes the oppressor. The cycle repeats until a loving intervention occurs and real healing may begin. ::
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