You may be surprised to know that everyone has trauma on some level. Trauma isn't just
something that happens to a select few who face horrible events or pain in their lives.
Trauma is more pervasive and undetected than that, and when it comes to trauma,
we're all suffering endlessly because of the way in which contemporary society tries unsuccessfully
to heal it. As one of the world's leading experts on trauma, Dr Peter Levine, says:
"Trauma is perhaps the most avoided ignored belittled denied misunderstood and untreated
cause of human suffering". And as a spiritual teacher, I see a clear spiritual reason why trauma
is so pervasive and difficult to heal in so many of us, but after watching this video, you'll have
a clear understanding of the spiritual aspects to trauma and how you can heal it effectively. You'll
learn what trauma really is, the top mistake we make when trying to heal trauma, and how
to heal trauma more effectively and quickly. Dr Gabor Mate, one of the world's leading experts
in trauma and addiction writes in his amazing new book "The Myth of Normal", listen to what he says:
Trauma is an inner injury a lasting rupture or split within the self due to difficult
or hurtful events.Trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you". I love
this definition because it shows us that trauma doesn't just depend on external events alone, it's
something that's deeply personal and individual. This is why a group of people can experience the
exact same painful event, but only some of them walk away traumatized, while others don't. But I
want to also add to the definition because to me it's incomplete. There's a spiritual aspect that's
missing and this makes all the difference when trying to understand and heal trauma. Trauma is
an inner injury at the mind, body and also spirit levels. It's not just an injury of the self or the
mental aspect, but it also involves the body and equally the spirit. Hello beautiful soul
we'll get back to the video in just a second but first I wanted to let you know that my 2023 Heart
Accelerator Retreat is now open and I'm so excited to get to work with our beautiful community of
light workers in person from October 22nd through the 29th in the south of Portugal. Enrollment is
now open and spots are extremely limited as this is the only Retreat that I'm doing this year. This
Retreat takes everything that I teach here on YouTube and takes it to another level and you
experience a profound healing and transformation from the incredible group energy that's channeled
at this event. On this Retreat, you'll experience daily group coaching, body movement classes,
outdoor activities, powerful nightly ceremonies, and the joy of connecting to your soul tribe and
meeting people who know exactly what you're going through and can help. If this resonates
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join. I hope to see you there! Now to the top mistake that we make when we're trying to heal
trauma. Contemporary Society only sees trauma from a mental perspective neglecting the equal
fully important body and spirit. Trauma isn't just present in your mind or in your sense of self,
what's called the ego. Trauma lives in your body and it also affects your spirit and here I refer
to Spirit as the parts of you that are unseen like your energy field or Aura. Your main energy center
is called the chakras and your soul, that part of you that lives in the body, but that exists beyond
it. Trauma causes what's known as fragmentation and in Psychology this is understood as a mental
split from reality or repression of the painful events deep in your subconscious mind away from
conscious awareness. But the fragmentation is also occurring at the level of the body
and spirit. In the body fragmentation shows up as a block in energy to a specific regions of
the body causing tightness and other physical symptoms. When I was a physical therapist I
could tell right away who had the most trauma simply by looking at the way that my patients
stood or walked. A person's posture revealed their their trauma very easily and this is because as
trauma expert Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk says in his famous book of the same name "The Body Keeps the
Score". In the spirit fragmentation shows up in two main ways: first there's a decreased energy
flow to your aura and the energy centers known as the chakras. Mediums or Clairvoyance can actually
see trauma in a person's energy field simply by looking at the color of the chakras and whether
those colors are bright and vibrant or stagnant and dull. And there's a decrease in Soul energy
present in the body because at the time of trauma your soul frequently pulls part of its energy from
your body as a protective mechanism so you don't feel the trauma so deeply. When your soul pulls
part of its energy out, it numbs you a bit and that at least allows you to survive the trauma,
but then this becomes a problem later on because you start feeling dead inside if your soul isn't
fully present. But because the body and spirit are not addressed adequately in Western Society,
people are left to deal with trauma in only two main ways: first, they either try and repress
it and try to forget it happened, or they seek out psychotherapy or psychiatry in an attempt
to address the mental aspects of trauma. And I have nothing against psychotherapy or
psychiatry because they can indeed help address the mental aspects of trauma,
but that's not enough. You can't fully heal trauma through the mind alone. This is why
I've worked with so many people who have spent years in psychotherapy but they can't seem to
heal their trauma fully. Inevitably they feel like they hit a wall in therapy and it's only
when they begin to work with the body and the spirit that the trauma finally heals.
So now that you understand trauma more deeply and the spiritual aspects to it,
how do we heal it effectively? Here are three powerful steps to help you get started:
Step one is to speak it. This is where psychotherapy can come in to help you process,
or you can talk to someone you trust about what happened to you. Spiritual teachers call this
a witnessing. This is when you bring that story of the trauma to the surface and you voice it to
someone else who witnesses it in a non-judgmental way. Talking about your trauma helps you heal
because it serves one important role - it allows the trauma to come up to conscious awareness and
it opens the energy up to circulate. Remember how trauma tends to show up as energy blocks? When
you speak your truth the stuck energy releases and it starts to process. Just speaking about
your trauma begins the healing process. If you don't have any money to see a therapist,
or you don't have anyone you trust to talk about your trauma, then write about it. Writing in a
journal is also a form of speaking out and it allows your journal to witness what happened to
you. Step two is called "Move It". This is where your beautiful body comes in. Your trauma is stuck
in your body so there's an absolute necessity to move the body, especially after talking about the
trauma. Spiritual teachers call this embodiment work, and this is where people get into trouble if
they only do psychotherapy or talk therapy. Many times they talk and talk but if they don't follow
up with embodiment work, the energy gets polarized in the head alone and then they get stuck in the
talking about the story of what happened to them. They talk and talk and talk until their heads feel
like they're exploding and this is happening because the energy is circulating in the head
but it's not moving through the body. So here's how to do embody work in a really simple way: put
some shamanic drumming music playing I recommend the beautiful drummer Byron Metcalf. Then sit or
lie down quietly on the floor. Close your eyes and focus on breathing slowly and deeply to relax your
body. Once your body is relaxed, begin talking to it by using this mantra: I ask my body to help me
heal this. Repeat this mantra slowly a few times and then start to move your body while still on
the floor. Listen to the drums and let the sound entrain with your body as you move on the floor.
Slowly stand up and start to dance at the rhythm of the drums. You don't need to know how to dance
just move your body as it wants, letting the innate intelligence of your body take over.
You can dance for a few minutes, or an hour - as long as you let your body take over. You can
experience anything from emotional releases, pains in your body as the energy moves, and even mental
flashbacks of your trauma. Don't worry about any of this as it's a sign that the energy is moving
and processing. Scream if you feel like it, cry if you feel like it, just try not to block what your
body wants to do. Step number three is "Energize it". Ready to beam up Jim. Energizing and I don't
mean like Star Trek! In this step energizing means working through the energy blocks, the stagnation,
and the soul fragmentation that can be present with trauma. For any chakra or energy field
imbalances, I'd like to use energy healers with clairvoyant skills to help me pinpoint chakra or
aura issues and move the energy with me. Some of my favorite modalities in this category are
acupuncture sessions, energy healing like the well-known healer Donna Eden does, and shamanic
clearings. For soul fragmentation, I love to use a special shamanic ceremony called "Soul retrieval"
and you can do this with a shaman or you can do it at home, yourself by simply lighting a candle
and using sacred smoke to clear the space, then you close your eyes and quiet your mind focusing
on your breathing for a couple of minutes. When your body and mind feel relaxed begin repeating
this powerful intention out loud: I recall my soul fragments back to me in all directions of time.
Repeat this intention over and over for a couple of minutes as you hand movements and visualization
to see your soul parts coming back to your body. When you feel you're done, sit down quietly and
assess how you feel. You can journal about your sensations and feelings afterwards. These three
steps will help you heal trauma effectively in mind, body and spirit. And speaking of healing,
check out this video here on what keeps spiritual people stuck when doing healing work
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