PTSD – A Way Out.com A mindful way to heal

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Yesterday in the on-line meditation group, Jennifer said, find the peaceful space in the middle of our trauma turmoil.

For me, a solution like this resonates.

15 years of dedicated healing effort, has brought improvement, but falls way short of repairing the awful damage. For five years I worked 8 hours a day on healing, reading, meditating and applying the skills learned.

There has to be an inner guide, a divine teacher, something bigger, more permanent, more powerful to hook up to.

A healing space that repairs the damage, rewires the brain and brings wellbeing, must be hidden inside.

Our only chance at a decent life is to live in this moment, then move to the next moment, without taking any baggage with us.

The past is a nightmare for us, the more we resist going there, the healthier we become.

Comparisons are killer.

Do not compare your childhood or your life to another, we will lose and suffer.

Refuse to feel sorry for yourself, ever.

It is an emotional death sentence.

We need to appreciate our effort to heal, results are above our pay grade. Celebrate your resistance, there is power inside our courage and willpower.

Absorb the pixie dust we have earned. Our Triumphs need great jubilation. Our trauma sure hogs the stage way to often.

Healing at times for me, has been not giving up when all seems hopeless.

The ability to take action in the face of traumas terror, contains some wellbeing and self respect.

The best we can do some days is not give up, not avoid and not make any decisions.

I refuse to make any decisions when my trauma is active.

I am defined by my effort and attitude, not by my abuse.

What defines you?

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