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It takes strong focus skills to withstand a trigger firing. Our defense mechanism has detected a life threatening situation, reason stops working when this fight or flight fires.
The mind speeds up, time is distorted, perception clouds, panic spreads.
Irrational or PTSD fear makes no difference to a body trying to survive a perceived lethal threat. Cortisol and adrenaline are dumped, respiration, BP and heart rate spike.
Loss of fine motor skills and tunnel vision add to our time distortion and confusing state.
We try to escape at all costs. It is an internal hurricane blowing 200 mph scary thoughts at us.
Sitting quietly, grounded, surrendering to these fears is our ultimate goal.
This is the door to wellbeing, a healing portal of transformation.
We heal by not running, not avoiding, not thinking but accepting, then surrendering to our thoughts (trauma).
This seems an enormous, complex undertaking.
Start with mastering one breath.
Build focus, practice daily, progress to five breaths, then ten, etc.
This simple, specific, concrete, immediate task holds gargantuan, humongous, colossal power.
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