I am reminded daily we are in a War like no other. We are bombarded 24/7/365 from exterior forces that would have us all suspend our self respect and tear apart the bonds of love and trust we have cherished with friends and family for decades. THEY have done a pretty good job with their barrage of psyche weapons. Living through this causes us all to wage war within our selves. I don't know about you but I personally can't sort it all out within myself, the pain of separation from loved ones and from the life of freedom I used to know is overwhelming, understatement. There are moments of peace ... last evening I sat with neighbors chatting and laughing about nothing, kinda a Seinfeld moment, and then I looked up at our beautiful Idaho sky only to find that the deep blue that had prevailed all day was now being laced with chem trails. Every half hour another very fast jet came hurtling across laying down its path of toxins. As an old Vietnam vet warrior I won't risk revealing what I wish with all my human being could befall the evil god-complexed mfr's that are nonstop waging their war against all of us and the planet. I wrote long ago off the coast of Vietnam - " War is the immutable, unremitting absence of sanity."
I have made it this far, through the barrage of evil this past four years, by reminding myself that I have a tactic today that I did not have on the kinetic battlefield - today I can choose my battles wisely. And you can choose your's too. I am forever grateful for the peace and comradery that I find here on Substack with such fine authors like Celia, and how you all speak from your hearts, does my heart good.
"As we were scapegoated, we choose our own scapegoats, who haunt our consciences. This is the undiagnosed problem—our own memories of our own selves. No chance to repent since giant brooms chase us around demanding we love and accept ourselves."
A profound statement. Thank you. I'm not certain that I personally can ever heal the wounds of my childhood. Perhaps only with the help of God and Jesus.
Of course you can heal the wounds. We all can. Our parents did the best they could with what they knew. The biggest obstacle to healing is belief. If you don't believe it's true for you, then it never will be. ♥
Thanks for the interaction. I speak of someone growing older who is still haunted by--even though I did not mention my parents--my father's abandonment and my mother's narcissism. Yes, they did the best they could. I fully understand that. And in most ways, they lived a materially better life than I have, despite challenges in their own lives.
But I find myself only realizing the extent of their abandonment as I have grown older. My statement was more of a musing sadness, a realization that grows as I move toward my own mortality. It is what it is. I believe many struggle with the same issues that I do; whether or not they realize or verbalize it. Blessings to you on your journey.
I agree- it takes a lifetime to process many things esp those from childhood. My biggest revelations and healing moments came after 50 and I was one willing to deal with it since I was a teen. It’s a lot to unravel esp when you live in a fake world.
I tend to disagree with you. It is a fake world but the problem is corruption that has permeated every ":disorganization both governmental and private and medical and religious, law enforcement, judicial, and you name it, including entertainment.
Most of law enforcement have been politically weaponized though I hesitate to say that has happened to the RCMP and if it has, it is to a much smaller extent. The OPP here and most of the city police across the nation are simple "Sam" floppers who take orders from their political masters. Note the stalinist Calgary Police, the Ottawa Police, the Toronto Police etc during the scamdemic. They converted the same way the German police converted to Gestapo under Hitler.
The worst Stalinists are the OPP who in my teen years, I heard most of my peers refer to as the Ontario Piss Pots. I thought that was way too far out but in the last few years the things I have seen and the crimes committed by these OPP has caused me to refer to them as pigs.
Note the process during the rise to power of Hitler. The damned pie faced fat assed slime minister here has and is doing all the same things...banning guns, persecuting legal gun owners, victimizing and villifying pro life people and organizations, mandating the people into chemical/biological experimentation, and defrauding the people. This putrid spawn of a hippie mother and a fake father who was commie inclined has been supported by law enforcement who obeyed/obey his seditionist actions. The pos needs to be tried and if guilty executed. Take note of what I say here pigs in blue uniform because it is all true.
I have names, positions, and listed CCC violations, Charter Rights violations, and Bill of Rights violations after each one of 16 people. The injustice CYSTem is prejudicially biased against any gun owner to the point getting a fair trial for any fake charges is not possible.
The whole mess can be laid at the feet of the clergy who over 55 years have acted like cowards and refused to condemn these and more corrupt things. The ministers have no courage, they are fearful of preaching the TRUTH and they have turned to winking at sin. They are the blind leaders of the blind, apostate and responsible for the souls of those they have deceived. It is just like Jesus said and just like He focused on of in His criticisms of the religious leaders of His day.
Time used to be that politicians were afraid of true men of God who preached the Truth and condemned anyone in positions of power who violated the scriptures.
That is not how it is now and the decline started in 1969. I used to keep files on current events and can tell you my observations were and are correct now.
We live in Canuckistan under an oligarchy and as for me I am ALL in. By that I mean I have some axes to grind with specific pigs and pig organizations, bureaucrats, political figures, JP's, and I have a handle and insight as well as proof that specific law enforcement agencies are liars, criminals, thieves, perjurers, frauds, rapists, etc and will be exposed as time goes on in my corner of the world.
While there are still a few police I know who are honorable, there are a lot more who are not and it is up to the good ones to expose and turf the bad ones. But they do not tend to do that.
Corruption is not opposed. People are insecure and afraid. Hoplophobics started their war on legal gun owners by attacking Bruce Montague, then Ian Thompson and many others by and through the injustice CYSTem. It continues unabated today.
If you hate the corruption and specifically the corrupt police, let it all out. DO not hold back. This is the only way this evil can be fixed. I have been informed that police are instructed to lay charges even if they have no hope in sticking. The context here is with legal gun owners being persecuted for their beliefs. Like Section 13 where the process was the punishment, the legal CYSTem is prejudicially biased against legal gun owners.
I have a documented case I am working on where it is thought a fake and defective detective did a biased and colored investigation, persuaded a green tin horn JP on the basis of false and biased information it was true, enabling her to sign a warrant. This defective detective is believed to have committed perjury, reckless endangerment, criminal harassment and criminal obstruction. But that is the start. But I tell you this is not the finish. By far.
Public opinions are not listened to, nor enjoined/taken seriously. Dissenters are jailed, defamed and attacked by the corrupt CYSTem while the trudopian media liars and whores ignore the state of affairs and the real enemies of all that is good.
In a current battle of good vs evil, the bad guy unexpectedly died last year. Stranger things have happened too. And there will be more things happen that will be unexpected and I am of the opinion these occurences will be onside of the TRUTH yet again and those who defend it.
As a person who had a narcissistic mother and emotionally unavailable father, I can relate. It was my narcissistic mother that set up the pattern of me attracting friends and or romantic partners with narcissistic tendencies or behaviors. At 70 plus years now, after the ending of a recent 22 month romantic relationship, with yet another person, who had narcissistic tendencies, I now understand the ‘pattern of attraction’. I recognize that this ‘pattern’ no longer serves me, nor do I need to have that in my life. I want and deserve an equal partner who “comes to the table” with as much love, energy, time and commitment to me as I have to give to them.
Good for you. What you say here just shows that we never stop learning and growing. It's a lifetime "experiment." I guess the tough part is it is only through our experiences that the growth happens.
At this point, it depends on you and you alone. Many people have healed the trauma of obscene horrors that I could never have imagined. Forgiveness of self and others is key.
I guess I meant that they did the best they could while surviving their own trauma, and my mother was sexually abused as a child, her sister was sent to a convent at age 12 and my mom wanted to go to, but wasn't allowed to. It is not normal for children to want to leave home at age 12. My aunt became a Catholic nun; she was not spiritual in any way, shape or form.
Yes, I agree, we all have to learn to be ourselves again. I think so many of us grow up being who we think the adults in our lives want us to be and we lose our true selves along the way. Who said, "It was never between you and them, it was always between you and God." I bet if every single person on the planet faced and healed their own demons, the whole NWO would just collapse.
Never ever shut up. Always keep speaking your truth. Someone out there needs to hear it. ♥♥♥
I went to one of Joe Dispenza's week long retreats when I had cancer. I believe it's interesting to know where he comes from. He comes from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, WA. What I don't like about that is that they used wine and lots of it. I don't believe enlightenment will ever come from something outside of you, especially alcohol. Look it up; it's an interesting school; had it's heyday in the 90s. I met someone who went to it; she says it was a cult. Anyway, he uses hypnosis, but hypnosis for your own good. I'm not sure if the healings he sees really stick. He poo-poo's the use of detox for the body and insists that meditation is the only way. I think each individual has to find his own way.
He charges a LOT of money and that money enriches him. Nothing wrong with that, but if you really wanted to help people who were suffering, do you really need to help them from a $12 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?
Ah Santa Barbara !! I know it well. Lived there once, still do some limited business there, and have many friends who somehow have managed to stay there despite the insane high cost of living. Such a beautiful beach town. And, its always been a mecca for all manner of gurus, cults and drug runners.
Back in the day we would climb up on the roof of our girlfriends' beach house, ($75/mo, rental cost!!) to take in the ocean air and count the offshore oil rigs with their lights shimmering across the waves. Thank goodness, just as now, there was good music and star filled skies to sooth our
Yes it is ! Sadly though the coastline I lived on for decades, love, and will always call home has become so expensive and politically tyrannical and corrupt makes it impossible for me to ever resettle there. Sigh.
Is wearing black part of that cult? I always wondered why as a healer he would be wearing black. I think Joe really has given the best explanations I've read or heard anywhere about what trauma is, where it is, and what needs to be done to eliminate it. I don't think his techniques are 100% perfect and I've heard some sketchy stuff from people who were at one of his retreats but I still like listening to him. I don't have enough faith or trust to listen to his meditations though.
Tim Fleitcher notwithstanding, I was in talk therapy for PTSD for 12 years and it didn't do much. Once I started discovering somatic ways of healing (i.e. start with balancing your nervous system so your whole brain can go online and allow you to process the emotions, and witness and change the maladaptive behaviors) I made much better progress. As a trauma recovery coach now, I listen to a lot of different people. I think Tim is extremely helpful in terms of understanding where our behaviors come from. I would listen to others in terms of creating a dichotomy with his views however. I would say the opposite of Tim would be somatic oriented practitioners like Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Steven Porges (polyvagal theory), and people who combine these things like Pat Ogden (sensorimotor psychotherapy) and Janine Fisher (polyvagal theory plus parts work). Joe Dispenza is someone who has fascinated me over the years, but he's not a heavy hitter in terms of trauma.
Also, not only can't you meditate your way out of trauma (I have a friend who has tried this, and although it has helped a lot, he doesn't have a great understanding of his behaviors at all) but some people are too dysregulated to meditate at all. They become more dysregulated from it as it makes them ruminate and get more anxious.
And, meditation can be many things, not just sitting there and having your thoughts float out of your mind on clouds. You can do moving meditation through yoga or walking or gardening. You can also just sit quietly and look at a candle - and I bet Dispenza wants you do to it only one way - and you can do mantras, etc. I never know he was a Ramtha devotee - that is kind of off putting to me.
If you want to see brilliance at work in this field, try one of Linda Thai's body-based courses on Collectively Rooted. The class I'm in now is full of therapists of all sorts and the breakthroughs they are having in their own healing just being exposed to her material and her presence have been nothing less than profound.
In my experience, the people who are unable or unwilling to face their trauma are sick, physically and/or mentally. I would go so far as to say they are content to die that way. In my life, I can divide my friends into those two categories- those willing to process the trauma and those not willing to do so.
It's unfortunate, but true. My husband grew up in an alcoholic family with his mother covering and lying for his father until the day he died. His sister was bulimic at age 17 and he got a DUI at age 22. When I approached the subject of the trauma of his childhood, he yelled at me that he had a perfectly happy childhood. That was probably 20 years ago. Today after suffering from nightmares as long as I have known him, he is willing to admit that there were problems, but claims there is nothing he can do about the nightmares and that counseling wouldn't help.
Wow--that is tough. What is it that some people will do anything to get through it and others cannot be persuaded to go there by anything. I totally get that no one really WANTS to go through it--it's nothing but pain and sorrow. But they must not trust that they will feel any better in the end and there is some shame involved in having to recount the past. I'm sorry, Carol--so great that he has you.
I tend to dwell on the past. Some of it is blurry, maybe invented. I suspect some things I was told were invented to cover up other stories I was told before those, and I don't really have a way to tell. So when I'm upset with memories, I turn the skepticism knob all the way to 11 and I feel a bit better.
Regarding geo-engineering trails since the 4/8 "solar eclipse" (or whatever happened on that day; who really knows) where I live in San Diego: It has virtually stopped, disappeared. It's quite astounding, really, to see the completely clear blue sky every day. Today was another day of geo-engineering trail-free blue skies after the fog burned off. It's remarkable. We are on two weeks here of almost non-stop blue skies. I can honestly tell everyone here that I have not witnessed this pattern in several years. I don't know what is going on, but anyone with eyes to see can witness an obvious pattern change. I wonder what "they" are up to.
For whatever it may be worth, Jacob Liberman, an optometrist by training, studied something called syntonics whereby looking at colored lights allegedly helped with behavioral problems.
He developed the idea the colors or shades that cause discomfort can alleviate trauma.
His book "Luminous Life" gives his thought process.<p>He also claimed the use of Brock strings to help eye convergence can have a psychological effect, covered in the same book.
I appreciated this article. I think along with learning how to deal with past traumas we need to learn to fortify ourselves against gaslighting. It's going on everywhere and has been for a long time, even in Christianity. Traumatized people are much more vulnerable to gaslighting, and the powers that be know this. It's why there's so much garbage in the news and in entertainment. It re-traumatizes us every time we engage in it. That's also why, I think, citizen journalists are going to become more and more critical. Authenticity is so important as we learn the hard truths of what the powers that be have been doing to us our whole lives. I know together we'll get through this and come out stronger for it.
My mom died when I was 15, I'm 60 now and think about her every day and sometimes, I get a lump in my throat. It's a good thing, keep the memory alive. All this "expunge it". Well, I disagree.
A friend gave me the book *Living Buddha, Living Christ,* by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have been reading it slowly over the past few months. Not everything TNH says rings true for my experience of Christianity, but there is a lot of wisdom in the book. I particularly appreciate his description of handling an emotionally provoking situation: "Breathing in, I recognize my feeling. Breathing out, I calm my feeling." This has helped me in many situations, and although I do revisit the situation when I am in a calmer frame of mind--usually hours later--I can get through the situation without digging a hole or inflicting wounds on others with this technique.
I am reminded daily we are in a War like no other. We are bombarded 24/7/365 from exterior forces that would have us all suspend our self respect and tear apart the bonds of love and trust we have cherished with friends and family for decades. THEY have done a pretty good job with their barrage of psyche weapons. Living through this causes us all to wage war within our selves. I don't know about you but I personally can't sort it all out within myself, the pain of separation from loved ones and from the life of freedom I used to know is overwhelming, understatement. There are moments of peace ... last evening I sat with neighbors chatting and laughing about nothing, kinda a Seinfeld moment, and then I looked up at our beautiful Idaho sky only to find that the deep blue that had prevailed all day was now being laced with chem trails. Every half hour another very fast jet came hurtling across laying down its path of toxins. As an old Vietnam vet warrior I won't risk revealing what I wish with all my human being could befall the evil god-complexed mfr's that are nonstop waging their war against all of us and the planet. I wrote long ago off the coast of Vietnam - " War is the immutable, unremitting absence of sanity."
I have made it this far, through the barrage of evil this past four years, by reminding myself that I have a tactic today that I did not have on the kinetic battlefield - today I can choose my battles wisely. And you can choose your's too. I am forever grateful for the peace and comradery that I find here on Substack with such fine authors like Celia, and how you all speak from your hearts, does my heart good.
God Speed and God Bless.
"As we were scapegoated, we choose our own scapegoats, who haunt our consciences. This is the undiagnosed problem—our own memories of our own selves. No chance to repent since giant brooms chase us around demanding we love and accept ourselves."
A profound statement. Thank you. I'm not certain that I personally can ever heal the wounds of my childhood. Perhaps only with the help of God and Jesus.
Of course you can heal the wounds. We all can. Our parents did the best they could with what they knew. The biggest obstacle to healing is belief. If you don't believe it's true for you, then it never will be. ♥
Thanks for the interaction. I speak of someone growing older who is still haunted by--even though I did not mention my parents--my father's abandonment and my mother's narcissism. Yes, they did the best they could. I fully understand that. And in most ways, they lived a materially better life than I have, despite challenges in their own lives.
But I find myself only realizing the extent of their abandonment as I have grown older. My statement was more of a musing sadness, a realization that grows as I move toward my own mortality. It is what it is. I believe many struggle with the same issues that I do; whether or not they realize or verbalize it. Blessings to you on your journey.
I agree- it takes a lifetime to process many things esp those from childhood. My biggest revelations and healing moments came after 50 and I was one willing to deal with it since I was a teen. It’s a lot to unravel esp when you live in a fake world.
It is. I am now in my 50s and still discovering many things about my childhood.
I tend to disagree with you. It is a fake world but the problem is corruption that has permeated every ":disorganization both governmental and private and medical and religious, law enforcement, judicial, and you name it, including entertainment.
Most of law enforcement have been politically weaponized though I hesitate to say that has happened to the RCMP and if it has, it is to a much smaller extent. The OPP here and most of the city police across the nation are simple "Sam" floppers who take orders from their political masters. Note the stalinist Calgary Police, the Ottawa Police, the Toronto Police etc during the scamdemic. They converted the same way the German police converted to Gestapo under Hitler.
The worst Stalinists are the OPP who in my teen years, I heard most of my peers refer to as the Ontario Piss Pots. I thought that was way too far out but in the last few years the things I have seen and the crimes committed by these OPP has caused me to refer to them as pigs.
Note the process during the rise to power of Hitler. The damned pie faced fat assed slime minister here has and is doing all the same things...banning guns, persecuting legal gun owners, victimizing and villifying pro life people and organizations, mandating the people into chemical/biological experimentation, and defrauding the people. This putrid spawn of a hippie mother and a fake father who was commie inclined has been supported by law enforcement who obeyed/obey his seditionist actions. The pos needs to be tried and if guilty executed. Take note of what I say here pigs in blue uniform because it is all true.
I have names, positions, and listed CCC violations, Charter Rights violations, and Bill of Rights violations after each one of 16 people. The injustice CYSTem is prejudicially biased against any gun owner to the point getting a fair trial for any fake charges is not possible.
The whole mess can be laid at the feet of the clergy who over 55 years have acted like cowards and refused to condemn these and more corrupt things. The ministers have no courage, they are fearful of preaching the TRUTH and they have turned to winking at sin. They are the blind leaders of the blind, apostate and responsible for the souls of those they have deceived. It is just like Jesus said and just like He focused on of in His criticisms of the religious leaders of His day.
Time used to be that politicians were afraid of true men of God who preached the Truth and condemned anyone in positions of power who violated the scriptures.
That is not how it is now and the decline started in 1969. I used to keep files on current events and can tell you my observations were and are correct now.
We live in Canuckistan under an oligarchy and as for me I am ALL in. By that I mean I have some axes to grind with specific pigs and pig organizations, bureaucrats, political figures, JP's, and I have a handle and insight as well as proof that specific law enforcement agencies are liars, criminals, thieves, perjurers, frauds, rapists, etc and will be exposed as time goes on in my corner of the world.
While there are still a few police I know who are honorable, there are a lot more who are not and it is up to the good ones to expose and turf the bad ones. But they do not tend to do that.
Corruption is not opposed. People are insecure and afraid. Hoplophobics started their war on legal gun owners by attacking Bruce Montague, then Ian Thompson and many others by and through the injustice CYSTem. It continues unabated today.
If you hate the corruption and specifically the corrupt police, let it all out. DO not hold back. This is the only way this evil can be fixed. I have been informed that police are instructed to lay charges even if they have no hope in sticking. The context here is with legal gun owners being persecuted for their beliefs. Like Section 13 where the process was the punishment, the legal CYSTem is prejudicially biased against legal gun owners.
I have a documented case I am working on where it is thought a fake and defective detective did a biased and colored investigation, persuaded a green tin horn JP on the basis of false and biased information it was true, enabling her to sign a warrant. This defective detective is believed to have committed perjury, reckless endangerment, criminal harassment and criminal obstruction. But that is the start. But I tell you this is not the finish. By far.
Public opinions are not listened to, nor enjoined/taken seriously. Dissenters are jailed, defamed and attacked by the corrupt CYSTem while the trudopian media liars and whores ignore the state of affairs and the real enemies of all that is good.
In a current battle of good vs evil, the bad guy unexpectedly died last year. Stranger things have happened too. And there will be more things happen that will be unexpected and I am of the opinion these occurences will be onside of the TRUTH yet again and those who defend it.
The devil gets his dues in the end.
As a person who had a narcissistic mother and emotionally unavailable father, I can relate. It was my narcissistic mother that set up the pattern of me attracting friends and or romantic partners with narcissistic tendencies or behaviors. At 70 plus years now, after the ending of a recent 22 month romantic relationship, with yet another person, who had narcissistic tendencies, I now understand the ‘pattern of attraction’. I recognize that this ‘pattern’ no longer serves me, nor do I need to have that in my life. I want and deserve an equal partner who “comes to the table” with as much love, energy, time and commitment to me as I have to give to them.
Good for you. What you say here just shows that we never stop learning and growing. It's a lifetime "experiment." I guess the tough part is it is only through our experiences that the growth happens.
It depends on your parents.
At this point, it depends on you and you alone. Many people have healed the trauma of obscene horrors that I could never have imagined. Forgiveness of self and others is key.
I completely agree.
I just don't think this is true for many:
"Our parents did the best they could with what they knew."
I also think that possibly the idea of being healed is maybe at odds with what it truly means.
Maybe learning ourselves is better wording. A better way to find wholeness.
Some say they want to be a better person.
I would say learning just to be yourself is all.
(Okay, I'll shut up!)
I guess I meant that they did the best they could while surviving their own trauma, and my mother was sexually abused as a child, her sister was sent to a convent at age 12 and my mom wanted to go to, but wasn't allowed to. It is not normal for children to want to leave home at age 12. My aunt became a Catholic nun; she was not spiritual in any way, shape or form.
Yes, I agree, we all have to learn to be ourselves again. I think so many of us grow up being who we think the adults in our lives want us to be and we lose our true selves along the way. Who said, "It was never between you and them, it was always between you and God." I bet if every single person on the planet faced and healed their own demons, the whole NWO would just collapse.
Never ever shut up. Always keep speaking your truth. Someone out there needs to hear it. ♥♥♥
Thanks Carol! ❤️
Yeah, I think the whole NWO would collapse too.
And there are many reaching into this.
(I'm not actually one to shut up, even when I was tiny I spoke to pieces no one else wanted to)
Thank you for sharing this with me. ❤️
Makes no sense to place blame on parents who were also victims of the same DS Cabal indoctrinations. God is within. Amen 🙏🏼
It's not a game of blame.
It's learning to not hold what is not ours to hold.
Yes we all have to do the work of whatever comes our way without bypassing it. Learning what that means can take awhile to understand.
(Oh I forgot I was going to shut up)
Or you can “blame” them but still heal from there. What’s the alternative?
If one is here, the work of being is here. It is never too late for that.
Absolutely.
Thanks Chris
Ditto.
❤️
I went to one of Joe Dispenza's week long retreats when I had cancer. I believe it's interesting to know where he comes from. He comes from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, WA. What I don't like about that is that they used wine and lots of it. I don't believe enlightenment will ever come from something outside of you, especially alcohol. Look it up; it's an interesting school; had it's heyday in the 90s. I met someone who went to it; she says it was a cult. Anyway, he uses hypnosis, but hypnosis for your own good. I'm not sure if the healings he sees really stick. He poo-poo's the use of detox for the body and insists that meditation is the only way. I think each individual has to find his own way.
He charges a LOT of money and that money enriches him. Nothing wrong with that, but if you really wanted to help people who were suffering, do you really need to help them from a $12 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?
Cult
Ah Santa Barbara !! I know it well. Lived there once, still do some limited business there, and have many friends who somehow have managed to stay there despite the insane high cost of living. Such a beautiful beach town. And, its always been a mecca for all manner of gurus, cults and drug runners.
Back in the day we would climb up on the roof of our girlfriends' beach house, ($75/mo, rental cost!!) to take in the ocean air and count the offshore oil rigs with their lights shimmering across the waves. Thank goodness, just as now, there was good music and star filled skies to sooth our
troubled inner beings.
Santa Barbara is so beautiful!
Yes it is ! Sadly though the coastline I lived on for decades, love, and will always call home has become so expensive and politically tyrannical and corrupt makes it impossible for me to ever resettle there. Sigh.
Sounds like a money making
cult!
Is wearing black part of that cult? I always wondered why as a healer he would be wearing black. I think Joe really has given the best explanations I've read or heard anywhere about what trauma is, where it is, and what needs to be done to eliminate it. I don't think his techniques are 100% perfect and I've heard some sketchy stuff from people who were at one of his retreats but I still like listening to him. I don't have enough faith or trust to listen to his meditations though.
Tim Fleitcher notwithstanding, I was in talk therapy for PTSD for 12 years and it didn't do much. Once I started discovering somatic ways of healing (i.e. start with balancing your nervous system so your whole brain can go online and allow you to process the emotions, and witness and change the maladaptive behaviors) I made much better progress. As a trauma recovery coach now, I listen to a lot of different people. I think Tim is extremely helpful in terms of understanding where our behaviors come from. I would listen to others in terms of creating a dichotomy with his views however. I would say the opposite of Tim would be somatic oriented practitioners like Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Steven Porges (polyvagal theory), and people who combine these things like Pat Ogden (sensorimotor psychotherapy) and Janine Fisher (polyvagal theory plus parts work). Joe Dispenza is someone who has fascinated me over the years, but he's not a heavy hitter in terms of trauma.
Also, not only can't you meditate your way out of trauma (I have a friend who has tried this, and although it has helped a lot, he doesn't have a great understanding of his behaviors at all) but some people are too dysregulated to meditate at all. They become more dysregulated from it as it makes them ruminate and get more anxious.
And, meditation can be many things, not just sitting there and having your thoughts float out of your mind on clouds. You can do moving meditation through yoga or walking or gardening. You can also just sit quietly and look at a candle - and I bet Dispenza wants you do to it only one way - and you can do mantras, etc. I never know he was a Ramtha devotee - that is kind of off putting to me.
If you want to see brilliance at work in this field, try one of Linda Thai's body-based courses on Collectively Rooted. The class I'm in now is full of therapists of all sorts and the breakthroughs they are having in their own healing just being exposed to her material and her presence have been nothing less than profound.
Why be greedy and keep all that pain for ourselves?! Spread it around :- )
In my experience, the people who are unable or unwilling to face their trauma are sick, physically and/or mentally. I would go so far as to say they are content to die that way. In my life, I can divide my friends into those two categories- those willing to process the trauma and those not willing to do so.
It's unfortunate, but true. My husband grew up in an alcoholic family with his mother covering and lying for his father until the day he died. His sister was bulimic at age 17 and he got a DUI at age 22. When I approached the subject of the trauma of his childhood, he yelled at me that he had a perfectly happy childhood. That was probably 20 years ago. Today after suffering from nightmares as long as I have known him, he is willing to admit that there were problems, but claims there is nothing he can do about the nightmares and that counseling wouldn't help.
Wow--that is tough. What is it that some people will do anything to get through it and others cannot be persuaded to go there by anything. I totally get that no one really WANTS to go through it--it's nothing but pain and sorrow. But they must not trust that they will feel any better in the end and there is some shame involved in having to recount the past. I'm sorry, Carol--so great that he has you.
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...in a very safe environment... hmmm...
I tend to dwell on the past. Some of it is blurry, maybe invented. I suspect some things I was told were invented to cover up other stories I was told before those, and I don't really have a way to tell. So when I'm upset with memories, I turn the skepticism knob all the way to 11 and I feel a bit better.
Elizabeth Nickson is a treasure - as are you!!
That guy in video is not creating a safe space to this viewer
Regarding geo-engineering trails since the 4/8 "solar eclipse" (or whatever happened on that day; who really knows) where I live in San Diego: It has virtually stopped, disappeared. It's quite astounding, really, to see the completely clear blue sky every day. Today was another day of geo-engineering trail-free blue skies after the fog burned off. It's remarkable. We are on two weeks here of almost non-stop blue skies. I can honestly tell everyone here that I have not witnessed this pattern in several years. I don't know what is going on, but anyone with eyes to see can witness an obvious pattern change. I wonder what "they" are up to.
For whatever it may be worth, Jacob Liberman, an optometrist by training, studied something called syntonics whereby looking at colored lights allegedly helped with behavioral problems.
He developed the idea the colors or shades that cause discomfort can alleviate trauma.
His book "Luminous Life" gives his thought process.<p>He also claimed the use of Brock strings to help eye convergence can have a psychological effect, covered in the same book.
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope to change yesterday."
Lily Tomlin
Thanks for sharing the Tim Fletcher video…I’m sure there’s a few of the Truth Barrier readers who will benefit from watching it. 💓🙏🏻
I appreciated this article. I think along with learning how to deal with past traumas we need to learn to fortify ourselves against gaslighting. It's going on everywhere and has been for a long time, even in Christianity. Traumatized people are much more vulnerable to gaslighting, and the powers that be know this. It's why there's so much garbage in the news and in entertainment. It re-traumatizes us every time we engage in it. That's also why, I think, citizen journalists are going to become more and more critical. Authenticity is so important as we learn the hard truths of what the powers that be have been doing to us our whole lives. I know together we'll get through this and come out stronger for it.
My mom died when I was 15, I'm 60 now and think about her every day and sometimes, I get a lump in my throat. It's a good thing, keep the memory alive. All this "expunge it". Well, I disagree.
A friend gave me the book *Living Buddha, Living Christ,* by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have been reading it slowly over the past few months. Not everything TNH says rings true for my experience of Christianity, but there is a lot of wisdom in the book. I particularly appreciate his description of handling an emotionally provoking situation: "Breathing in, I recognize my feeling. Breathing out, I calm my feeling." This has helped me in many situations, and although I do revisit the situation when I am in a calmer frame of mind--usually hours later--I can get through the situation without digging a hole or inflicting wounds on others with this technique.