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There's a lot of information out there in mainstream psychology about trauma, but what's
trauma from a spiritual perspective, the answer to this question will help you heal trauma
effectively and at its root. So you don't have to spend years in therapy
or conventional treatments that many times don't work in this video. You'll learn what trauma is from a spiritual
perspective, how you can have trauma without even knowing it, the top spiritual issue with
trauma that makes it hard to heal some times. And then I'm going to finish off with my top
four step practice to help you heal trauma effectively and at its root coming up. (00:59):
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and book your spot while it still lasts onto part one of the video what's trauma. (01:55):
So trauma is discussed and studied a lot in the field of psychology specifically, especially. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give
you a mainstream definition of trauma, but then I want us to go deeper. And I'm also going to give you a spiritual
definition of trauma and we'll work on that from there. Okay? So the mainstream definition of trauma is
a psychological and emotional response to an experience that is deeply distressing. Now, what you'll notice about this definition
in mainstream psychology is that this definition of trauma is very mind dominant. Okay? So it's very mind dominant and it leaves out
a really important aspect of trauma. And that's where we're going to get into spiritually. It leaves out both the body and also the energy
aspects of trauma that are so important. If you don't understand these energy aspects,
these spiritual aspects to trauma, and you're trying to just heal trauma from a mind level,
you're never going to get to the root of it and you won't be able to heal fully. (02:58):
And this is why a lot of times, people with trauma spend years and years in conventional
therapy, and they never seem to be able to heal. The only thing that they seem to be able to
do is cope. And I really don't like the word cope, because
what that means is that you are going to have something permanently and you just have to
get used to dealing with it. Basically, that's what coping means. And for me, trauma can be healed and it can
be healed at the root cause, but you have to understand the spiritual aspects behind
trauma. All right. So now let me give you the spiritual definition
of trauma, and then we're going to break it down a little bit, right? So spiritually trauma is a mind, body and
energy response to an experience that is deeply distressing. Now this definition may look on the surface. (03:44):
Like it's very similar to the mainstream definition, but there are some, some differences, right? So now we're talking about disturbances at
the mind level, the body level and the energy level. These three levels are so important to address
in order for trauma to be fully healed. Okay. So let's go into the, let's go into the different
parts. All right. So at the mind level, trauma can create mental
disturbances and it can create a lot of fears. It can create a lot of mental looping. It can create a lot of memories that get stuck,
that you're unable to process. So there's a lot going on on the mental level. That's absolutely true. Trauma can cause significant disturbances
on the mental level. And that's usually what's addressed in standard
therapy, but now let's go to the other two levels. All right. One of them is the body level. (04:37):
This isn't talked about as much, but your body, it will store trauma in its cells. Your body will actually store trauma. And so if the body is not addressed and worked
with, it's very difficult to heal trauma completely. So you can think of your body sort of as a
record keeper of everything that's ever happened to you, including traumatic experiences. And if you don't address the body, it'll be
really hard to heal. Okay? So that's another level. It's the mental level. Now we talked a little bit about the body
level, and now let's talk about the third level, which is the energy level. Now one little side note, before we get into
the energy level that I forgot to mention here on the body level, there's a really,
really cool book that if you want to go into and research a little bit more, what it means
to have body, to have trauma stored in your body. (05:31):
There's this beautiful book that is a must read for anyone who goes through trauma and
wants to learn how to heal it at its root. The book is called waking the tiger by Peter
Levine. And this is a really a must read. I'm going to leave links to that book in the
description box below. So you can purchase that and read through
it and you'll get a better understanding of this deeper understanding of trauma and how
to heal it, especially its presence in the body. But now let's get into the third level, which
is that energy level that I was talking about. Okay, this one is for sure not talked about
in mainstream. So we're going to go deeper into this one,
the energy level. What I mean by energy level is that you are
made up of a lot more than just your body in your mind. (06:12):
Okay? So you're made up of a lot more. So think of yourself as having a part of you. That's quantum or subtle, it's made of subtle
energy. It's not made of matter or of mass. You can't see it with your eyes, but it's
a really, really important part of you. And it's a part of you that is, it comes,
it really has a significant role when it comes to trauma. So when you think of the energy part of you,
think of things like your aura, uh, your chakras, which are our energy points in your body,
you can think of your meridians. There's a lot of different parts of you that
are non-visible with the naked eye and those parts of you. They need to be functioning properly in order
for the other parts of you to be okay. If you don't have a properly functioning energy
system, your body is going to get sick and it's going to die. (07:03):
Okay? So that's how important this energy level
is. When you go through trauma, here's the ding
ding. When you have trauma, your energy system is
going to be disrupted in one way or another. Meaning that cheat or Pronto or energy, it
won't be, it won't be circulating well throughout your body when you have trauma, because the
energy aspect of the energy level of trauma will create some sort of blockages in your
energy system. And that will create disruptions in the flow
of cheek. And whenever there's disruptions in the flow
of cheek, your, the health of your physical vessel and the health of your mind, the health
of your whole being can be compromised. All right? So this energy level is really important to
remember when you have trauma you're affected at the mental, the body and the energy aspect. And now that you know these three, now you
have a deeper understanding on how to possibly heal from trauma, just beyond the mind level. (08:02):
So here's an important mantra that I want you to remember just as a reminder on how
important this energy level is. Okay. So trauma affects the natural flow of subtle
energy or cheek in your body. Okay, don't forget this. This is, this is one of the most important
aspects of this video is for you to understand that if you have any kind of trauma, energy
or cheat is not going to be circulating properly in different aspects of your energy field. Okay? Now that you know that there's a disruption
in key, now you'll understand that you can go deeper in the healing because you're eventually
going to have to address your energy system. Okay? You see how deep we're going in, in the healing
of trauma. So when you address these levels, now you
start to understand the healing trauma is possible. You don't have to cope with trauma your whole
life. (08:50):
You can actually heal it, but you just have to go deep enough to understand its roots,
the deepest roots of trauma onto part two of the video. Do you have trauma? So this is an interesting one because I've
worked with thousands of people from all over the world. And I can't tell you the amount of times that
people come to me and they don't even realize they have trauma. They don't even realize it. They don't know it. Okay. And let me tell you why this happens so frequently. So the main reason why this happens so frequently
is because we're dealing with, what's known as an empath or an HSP. Okay? So a HSP, highly sensitive person and pats
and HSPs are highly sensitive beings. And a lot of times what happens with empaths
is they can be traumatized by events or circumstances that wouldn't traumatize non empaths. (09:42):
And what ends up happening is an empath or a sensitive will come to me and they will
say, oh, you know, I had a pretty normal childhood, nothing really traumatizing happened. You know, like, you know, like horrible things
like rape or incest or abuse or whatever. I've not I've, hadn't had any of that stuff. So I'm not traumatized. You see what's happening here. The person is looking outside and they're
seeing the things that are supposed to traumatize you. And these are big things. And they're not considering the fact that
they are sensitive and as sensitive as they can be traumatized by events that may seem
smaller to the outside world. Okay. So here's an example. If someone's really sensitive, let's say they're
a sensitive child and their mother or their father screams at them a lot. And let's just say, that's the normal thing. You know, mom or dad just loves to scream
and they just scream. (10:32):
And that seems to be the normal thing. And standard society may be an adult screaming
at you or shouting at a child may not be something that, that seems highly traumatizing when
compared to like a rape or, or sexual abuse or something horrible like that, or a war
zone. These are big things. And so when we look at these big things, we
say, wow, you know, I can see where that there's trauma there. But sometimes, you know, an adult shouting
with a child doesn't seem like there would be trauma there. So these are smaller events, but because the
child is sensitive, that event can traumatize them too. And then what ends up happening is the child
will grow up and they'll normalize that trauma. They won't even consider it trauma. So they'll be traumatized and they won't even
know it. Okay. And this presents a problem because if I don't
know, I have trauma, I won't know that I need to heal anything. (11:23):
Okay. So this is a really important spiritual aspect
that happens with [inaudible] and with HSP. So if you're a sensitive person, consider
a certain parts of your life, and whether you've been normalizing certain things, maybe
you've been traumatized by things that you didn't consider to be distressing, um, events
up until now until watching this video. If you want to go deeper on empaths and HSPs,
and really learning a little bit more about, you know, how sensitive you are and whether
you are an empath or an HSP, um, I shot two videos on this topic. I'm going to leave links to these two videos
in the description box below. So you can watch after watching this, when
you can go deeper into the, into the topic of empath, and HSPs onto part three of the
video, the top issue with trauma. So there's one spiritual issue that we really
need to address. (12:10):
It needs to come up, uh, into our conscious awareness, um, because it's going to help
with the healing process. Okay? So here's the top spiritual issue. The top spiritual issue with trauma is that
trauma can cause energy fragmentation in you. Okay? It can cause energy fragmentation. Now let me explain what this means when you're
going through trauma. A lot of times is, especially if you're an
empath or an HSP, when you're going through trauma, your soul deploys, a protection mechanism,
it actually pulls out a little bit of its soul essence from your body. And when it does that, it's doing that as
a protection mechanism to numb your system a little bit. So you can at least survive the trauma. All right, this is a protection mechanism
at the time, your soul actually pulls part of its soul essence out of your body. When it does that, you feel more numb. (13:03):
Naturally. You're not as sensitive. The more soul energy you have in your body,
the more sensitive you are, the less soul energy you have in your body, the less sensitive
you are. And so initially your soul is doing this as
a protection mechanism. The problem is years later, months or years
later, or when you grow up, now you have a significant problem because now you are fragmented
energetically your, your soul essence, isn't all here, and that can present a lot of problems. So again, if you're going to therapy and you're
doing your counseling and you don't realize or address the energy fragmentation that's
being caused by the trauma, it's very difficult to heal completely because the healing is
only going to occur when your soul essence comes back to you. All right? So this, this energy fragmentation aspect
is really important to remember, especially when it comes to the healing of trauma, which
we'll get into in a little bit. (13:55):
So here's an important thing to remember us is a good mantra so that you can remember
this moving forward. And the mantra is less soul, energy, less
pain, okay, more soul, energy, more pain right now. This means that the more your soul energy
is in your body, the more sensitive you are to the things that are happening on the outside,
the less soul energy, the less sensitive you are because you're numb. Really. So again, this is a protection mechanism that
at the moment that the trauma is occurring at the moment that the trauma is occurring,
this could be life-saving for you. That numbness could be life-saving, but then
later on, it has to be addressed because otherwise you're going to live in a state of fragmentation
forever. Okay. So this is super, super important to remember
that when we're healing trauma, we must address the fragmentation in energy. (14:48):
That's such a crucial, crucial, important part. We must call our soul energy back to us in
order for the healing to be complete onto part four of the video, how to heal. Okay. So the majority of people, when they start
healing trauma, they actually come into the healing of trauma through the lens of psychotherapy. Okay. And psychotherapy is, is a great route to
start nothing wrong with it. Therapy can be very, very beneficial and wonderful. So the majority of people enter the healing
of trauma through the route of psychotherapy, because it's the most acceptable form of healing
still in standard Western society. But now that you're watching this video, you'll
understand that if you are doing psychotherapy or if you've tried to heal through the psychotherapy
route, you have to go a little bit deeper. So you have to add some complimentary tools
to your regular psychotherapy in order for that, uh, for the healing to take place fully. (15:43):
Okay. So I'm going to share with you a really cool
practice that I like using for starting to work with trauma and healing it in the different
facets that trauma has on the mind level, the body level and on the energy level. So this is a four-step process and the first
step is they're all important, but the first step is, you know, the first step start here. This is an important one. And that is intention. Okay. Intention conscious intention, not only to
heal trauma, but conscious intention to call back to you the soul energy that has fragmented
when you were traumatized. Okay. So this is really important. I like to do this, this first step. I like to do it in the form of a, sort of
a ceremony. So I like to put drumming music on. I like to burn some Sage Palo Santo. (16:35):
I like to use sacred smoke. I'll have music. Sometimes I'll be dancing and moving my body
and I'll start to kind of bring in the energy of intention there. And as I'm doing this, I'll repeat mantras. I'll repeat intention, mantras. I'm going to share one with you that, that
I love for healing trauma. I'll share this one with you, but you can
design your own mantras if you want to. Okay. So here's my healing mantra that you can use
in your own intention ceremony. It's my intention to heal this trauma and
welcome my soul parts back to me now. Okay. So notice, notice this mantra. I'm not just talking about healing trauma. I'm not just setting the intention to heal
trauma. I'm setting the intention to heal trauma,
but also ding, ding, to bring the soul parts back to me, any soul part that is fragmented,
I'm asking it to come back to me. (17:29):
Now, this is a really, really important part of the intention. So you can write this mantra down and use
it, or you can design your own. That has kind of the same components, which
is intention to heal the trauma, but also intention to welcome the soul parts back,
the more open and welcoming you are in your body and in your whole energy system, the
faster that soul energy can come back to you and integrate into your system. That's what this intention is doing. This intention is setting the stage for the
integration of your energy. I love this. The, this word is kind of, you know, coming
into my head right now is integration, right? That's what healing of trauma is all about
integration so that you become a whole being again before the fragmentation started. All right. So, uh, so step number one, strong intention. (18:20):
Repeat that mantra many, many times, the more you repeat the mantra and bonus points, you
know, like sometimes I like to give this as a pro tip, but here's a pro tip, ding, ding,
repeat the mantra out loud. Use your throat chakra, repeat the mantra
over and over again. The more that you repeat the mantra, the more
you're going to be solidifying your intention and creating a strong energy momentum towards
that specific intention. Step number two of the process is to work
with the body. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. So remember, your body is super important. It's a record keeper for your trauma. Trauma will actually be housed in the body. So you have to address the body. You have to work with the body so that the
trauma can be healed. Okay? So get into your body, work with your body. There are many ways in which you can work
with your body, but I'm going to share with you my top three favorite that I have for
working with the body, uh, to kind of get that energy moving and to start processing,
uh, any blockages, any blocked energy of trauma in your body. (19:24):
The first one that I love using is breath work. Oh, breath, work. I love breathwork so much. Okay. So breath work is amazing. And what breath work does, is it oxygenates
it hyper oxygenates your body is soon as you start to work with deep breathing. That's what we're really talking about with
breath. Work is deep breathing. When you start to work with deep breathing
techniques, you really start to get into the body. You will wake in the body. You will awaken cheesy moving in the body. And that will start the process of really
accelerating the healing of trauma. You can do any kind of breath work. It doesn't have to be a specific technique. You can use a pranayama, the yoga breathing,
you can use a Wim, Hof breathing. Look that one up, uh, you can use holotropic
breathing. There's another one. There's a ton of different breathing techniques
that you could use, but just look up on the internet, look up, uh, deep breathing techniques. (20:21):
And you're going to find a technique and maybe start to experiment with different ones. You can even look on YouTube. There are, there are so many videos of guided
breathwork sessions. So you just put your earphones on and you
follow the person, guiding you through a session. Okay? So breath work a great, great starting place
to get into your body and start to circulate chia and addressing and processing that energy
of trauma. The second way to start working with your
body is through dancing. I love to dancing specifically with a lot
of drumming. Okay. So I will very specifically put some, uh,
some shamonic music, some drumming music on, and I'll start to dance. I'll start to really move my body. Here's a pro tip for dancing, ding, ding pro
tip for this one, dancing in a ways that your body's not used to moving. (21:07):
Okay? So move your body in ways that you wouldn't
move it on a regular everyday basis, right? If you move your body in different ways, you
get your body out of its regular routine, and that'll start to break any blockages and
open energy up in your body. Okay? So dancing is a great way. Adding some shamonic deep drum that really
helps it helps you connect with your body and start to do that work more deeply. The third way that I use the, I love to work
with the body with this one is with the use of vibration. Oh, I love this so much. And what I mean by vibration is literally
just shaking your body. Okay. So I work with vibration. A lot. Vibration really starts to break up energy
blockages in your body. Okay? So you can do something as simple as just
put a music track on and just stand there and, you know, start vibrating. (21:55):
Your body starts shaking. Just make yourself feel like a ragdoll and
just shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, and you could shake your body for a whole, a music
track, right? So maybe a few minutes and you just keep shaking. Your body vibration is really, really cool. A really cool tool to break up energy blockages,
and start to get into the trauma and process the energy and release it from the body. Step. Number three of this practices, soothing mantras. Now, why do I bring soothing mantras in here
in step three? Right? The reason is that when I set the intention,
when I do step one, and then I start working with my body and step two, an interesting
thing may happen. Here's what may happen your body. And your mind may go into, what's known as
holding patterns. Okay. A holding pattern is when the body and the
mind, they start to sense that trauma's coming up and they will think they're reliving it. (22:50):
And so they'll hold they'll, they'll go into a holding or protection or a tightening, um,
uh, kind of way. It usually starts at the mind. So the mind will usually start saying, ah,
I'm not feeling safe, not feeling safe, trauma's coming up. And then when the mind starts to chitter chatter,
the body will listen and we'll say, oh my God, danger, danger. And it'll lock. Okay. So that's what a holding pattern is. This is very frequent for that to happen in
the mental level and at the body level, as you're starting to work with Mo with trauma,
and this is why the soothing mantras are so important to come in. When you use soothing mantras, you're calming
the mental and the body. You're calming these two levels down so that
you can continue to go deeper into the trauma and you can continue to go deeper into the
healing of it without the body, or the mind blocking that healing. (23:39):
You can use any kind of soothing mantra that you design yourself. I'm going to share, uh, some of my soothing
mantras with you. So you can start there if you want to, but
there's one important. The crucial, the crucial reason why you were
using, um, soothing mantras in the first place, right? The crucial reason why you're using a soothing
mantras in the first place is because you must feel safe. The body must feel safe. The mind must feel safe in order for the healing
of trauma to keep going. As soon as you do not feel safe, which is
exactly what happened when you were going through trauma in the first place, right? As soon as you start to feel unsafe, that
that locking mechanism, those, those holding patterns are going to come in. All right? And so what the mantras do is that they give
you a sense. (24:29):
You start to feel safe and as you feel safe, you can go deeper. At the end of the day, when you're using these
soothing mantras, what's going to happen is that these mantras are going to relax your
mind and your body relaxing the mind, and the body is crucial to going deeper. Okay? So now let me share a few of my own soothing
med mantras, and then you can start there and develop your own. Okay? So here's some of the ones that I love to
use. They're very simple, but very effective. I am safe. This work is safe. I am supported. Healing is necessary. All is well. Okay. So here are some of the soothing mantras that
I use. And then what you can do is when you, you
pick one or two of these soothing mantras to start, whichever one feels better to you. (25:19):
And then the way that you work with these soothing mantras is that you're going to start
repeating the soothing mantra, even out loud. Remember that pro tip bonus points here. If you do this out loud and use your throat
chakra, start repeating the soothing mantras, keep repeating. You can even put your hands on your body to
kind of relax it, put your hands on your heart, put your hands on your, on your skull and
your head. And just repeat the mantras. Like I am safe, everything is fine. I am safe. I need to do this work. You see, you can repeat this over and over. And as you repeat this, the holding patterns
of the mind and the body will start to disintegrate and the mind and the body will relax a little
bit more. And as they relax, that's when you keep going
deeper, the fourth and last step is a journal. (26:09):
Okay? So this one is super important. Get yourself a journal just for your trauma
healing, um, uh, exercise. Well, the more that you journal, when you
put down on paper, the things that are coming, the insights, the emotions that you're processing,
the memories that are coming up, the sensations you're feeling in your body. When you write these things down more than
just it being cathartic, because it is cathartic. But more than that, what you're doing on an
energy level is you're opening up the energy for more insight to come. The more you write, the more insights and,
and stuff may come to you to process even further. So journaling is a great exercise to move
energy, not just as a tool for catharsis, even though catharsis is a wonderful healing
aspect. Okay? So get used to journaling, have a journal
with you. And as you're working through the other aspects
of this exercise, make sure you always have a journal on hand and write as much as possible
write, write, write. The more you write about what you're experiencing,
the faster that trauma is going to heal. Now, I want to hear from you, have you experienced
trauma in your life? I want to hear all about it in the comments
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