Emotional trauma causes mental images and feelings to intrude in our lives and influence our thoughts. When I was overcoming emotional trauma, I learned to identify the images and feelings in my mind. I had lots of them. Identifying the images and feelings is beneficial because I got to know them, anticipate them, and prepare a response.
Familiarity with the images and feelings promotes emotional stability.
Point out the habitual response to an image or feeling and look for assumptions regarding it. For instance, the assumption that an image or feeling should be shunned needs to be replaced with the idea that it should be embraced and loved. You assume it's shameful to have the feelings and images and habitually avoid them when in fact they are an important and valuable (although painful) part of your life! The assumption is the enemy because it causes denial, and keeps you from yourself. In chapter one I wrote:
"...An assumption is like a person who moves into your house, taking it for granted that they have the right to tell you what to do..." Evaluate assumptions, reexamine the response to images and emotions, and see yourself grow as a person!
The above is very important not only in the mind, but also in the world. Prejudice is like emotional trauma in that a fixed thought (image) is cemented in the mind and accompanied by the assumption that it is the correct idea, erroneously controlling thoughts and feelings! Be careful about assumptions, because what you take for granted and overlook could be what's holding you back, not the enemy that "lurks in the shadows," or is "obvious," or the one that's been battled for years.
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- I believe that I can speak about emotional trauma, especially PTSD, in a unique way and give voice to those who may find it difficult to articulate what it's like to be emotionally traumatized. I had the experience of being put in the hospital at the age of two due to being ill with encephalitis. Ironically, encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, and it was my brain that I needed to use to escape the horrible things that would subsequently happen to me. I was severely emotionally damaged at the age of two by what I believe to be the EEG that the doctors gave me. They put wires on my head and weren't nice about it. The trauma from the hospital experience incubated in my mind until I was seventeen years old. It was at that time that things got ugly. Images and feelings from the hospital popped in and out of my mind. I developed techniques to stabilize my mental state and then to ultimately overcome the emotional trauma. I did this without going for help or talking to anyone. I only kept a journal, "My only friend." If you'd like to learn more, you can go to my website, THE MIRACLE INSIDE MY MIND.
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