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Taking a step back, perusing life around me, then exploring my mind, ideas percolate.
So much of well-being depends on our thoughts, abstract inventions filled with bias and emotion.
Expressed by wrote or speech, certain thoughts are damaging if we adopt them.
Remember 60,000 thoughts cross our consciousness daily.
Why do trauma thoughts dominate the 60,000, take up all the oxygen in the room?
Who do PTSD emotionally charged thoughts have so much power?
Why do some never go away, not present all the time but visit each new day.
Thoughts can shape our narrative, identity who we think we are, waste huge amounts of time pursuing that image.
Implicit memory (stored trauma) brings the scariest thoughts, lethal threat memories of abuse or trauma.
On the PTSD discussion boards, childhood abuse and rape were constant companions for so many.
Stuck in the violence of childhood like an invisible prison, suffering is the dish served over and over.
Recovery seemed impossible from my observation point.
For me, healing has taken power from these memories, granted me periods of well-being.
I realize some thoughts become weaponized with emotions, seeming enormously powerful, it is all hot air.
PTSD is a bully, know thine own trauma well.
Matthew Ricard describes thought as ephemeral, fleeting and hollow.
Our thoughts on self (self-worth) are extremely important.
These thoughts influence the Ego’s (identity) creation.
Our Ego has been severely compromised during childhood, we need to reparent and be aware of how the mind works.
Therapy and meditation have been my reparenting effort.
The mind is extremely complex but is programmed by simple repetitive actions.
For me that action was found in meditating, learning to focus intensely.
Calming my nervous system and being able to let negative thoughts go, remain my most powerful tools.
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