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Find a quiet spot, focus on the breath intently, slow way down, calm your being.
After the body calms, Visualize an enormous circle in front of you.
Bring all awareness to your body sensations, be extremely sensitive, explore the inner world.
Now let your trauma thoughts and feelings have an audience.
We are just observing them from a short distance. Next start filling the big circle, that zero with your trauma.
Every exhale, shovel some more inside the ⭕️ circle, all the worry, doubt, humiliation, loss and unworthiness we carry like an anchor.
When you have shoveled all you can, every exhale moves the circle farther away as it begins to shrink.
In a couple of minutes the circle is so far away, it looks like a period.
Do you notice any change?
We are trying to build some space, some distance between us and our trauma, between stimulus and response in waking life.
Remember, it takes repetition to handle trauma, to enjoy wellbeing.
My Wednesday meditation group leader, Cam, introduced this technique today.
I adapted it to trauma, fill that ⭕️ circle, it is like a door, an opening to jettison our PTSD.
Being able to focus on the breath and visualize things has helped me get better.
As usual, new things are awkward and we are not very good at it in the beginning.
You can do all this in private, avoidance is a big symptom.
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