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Our mindfulness practice can be focused on connecting our awareness to our body.
This is the path that integrates trauma stored in the body. Our fight or flight mechanism does not need to fire for us to be influenced by residual trauma stored in the body.
When we feel our bodies triggered, an opportunity presents itself.
We can dissociate into thought, fueling PTSD or we can observe, feel and breathe into the part that is aroused. One fuels PTSD, the other calms and integrates.
Trauma stored in the body needs an intense exploration from a friendly unbiased observer. We sit still, focus and listen to our interior world.
The first time I healed, my body trauma left me last.
A mindful practice brings intimate awareness of all these sensations without the storyline.
When we feel anxious, spooked or fearful, another opportunity arises.
Once our body trauma is felt without the storyline, it calms a little.
Repeated acceptance and befriending of our nervous system and body will integrate some of our PTSD.
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