SHEDDING LIGHT ON TRAUMA by Louise Smart CThA

How we can work with the energetics of trauma and transform our past

The healing of trauma is complex. At the root of all trauma is the ongoing deep mistrust of ourselves and the reality of goodness, safety or love. Mistrust is embedded in layers of compacted energy that are bound up with beliefs and painful distressing feelings of helplessness and shame. Because, at a core level we believe we have failed ourselves because we "should" have been able to escape, overcome or save ourselves from whatever threatened or hurt us or caused us the agony of loss. We probably endured terror from abandonment because there was no-one to help us and as a result we have been wounded and scarred physically, psychologically or both. The impact of wounding can penetrate right to the core of our soul and even replays in our lives until it is consciously healed. It's common knowledge we are biologically programmed for self -preservation. In the face of any perceived threat our body automatically shifts into the stress response, releasing a cocktail of hormones, producing huge amounts of energy so that we can run or fight or freeze (play dead) and survive any threat or opponent or death itself. What is not so widely known is that much of the bound up energy of helplessness and shame and stress stays undischarged in our nervous system – often for years. And it is this undischarged energy that we try to control and keep suppressed in case it gets triggered and we risk feeling hopeless, helpless, ashamed and terrified all over again. Paradoxically, implicit in the pathology of trauma is the unconscious attraction to reenact threatening, wounding situations in our personal and professional lives and relationships. Its a paradox that holds the potential for victory over trauma once and for all through an intentional safe release of undischarged energy. But often we are not equipped to deal with the tide of fear and emotional distress that inevitably surfaces when bound up energy gets triggered. Instead of finding a way to allow the release of energy that has been trapped inside, we suppress the power of its disturbing upsurge and numb it back down or deny it or get busy deflecting it. This suppression is totally understandable.

No matter how safe our circumstances are now, we actually still remain on red alert for threat like a coiled spring. If we fundamentally haven’t unraveled our core programming then we still believe its our job to keep ourselves safe in an unsafe, unjust world. Basically we can never feel or be safe whilst trauma is lodged in our energy circuitry. Like a dog that has been abused – it is nearly impossible to trust. It takes a great deal of patience, loving kindness and understanding to get a traumatized dog to allow itself to "let go" and receive the love and care that is available here and now. The damage from a traumatic event or repeated events may indeed by physical. If we have survived, the physical damage is often actually secondary to the psychological damage that inhibits a vital trust in life and love. The courage required to discharge the energy of trauma and unravel a lifelong programming to overly self-protect after trauma - is akin to going from refusing to go up in a plane at all, to being able to jump out of a plane without a parachute and believing there is a soft landing. It’s doable but it needs a very careful approach. You cannot take a proverbial sledge hammer to a trauma wound. It backfires. In short my approach is to;

1. Teach you to release the build up of daily stress so that it doesn’t accumulate and overwhelm you on top unresolved trauma.

2. Teach you to connect to powerful transformational energies of nurturing, soothing self love so that you can confidently meet fear and dissolve it the way that sunshine dissolves ice.

3. Teach you how you build trust in yourself, in your own unconditional innocence which is actually the key to all protection in your outer life. Its radical and beyond the scope of this blog post to explain.

4. Deconstruct the framework of the contracting energy of limiting beliefs like shame, guilt and helplessness and free up any blocks to all the unlimited love and support that is available to you when you have been shown how to access it.

5. Help you build a relationship with yourself that is kind and loving and honors your trauma survival without it becoming your total identity. In other words your healed trauma can contribute to a sense of yourself as empowered, wise, compassionate and worldly with much to contribute. Clinging to a trophy of righteous victimhood is a very common way to avoid the courageous journey of true and complete healing.

We experience trauma and resurrect ourselves from the ashes of life’s incomprehensible blows, because we can, because we are eternal and powerful and because we are here to discover and know in our core being that we are safe, loved, lovable and cared for. When we change our energy, by transforming the energetics of trauma we create a whole new reality for ourselves.We are the phoenix rising.

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Lou

Lou Smart CThA