Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk’s bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score, explains that trauma is encoded in the viscera, heartbreaking emotions, autoimmune disorders, and skeletal/muscular problems. Understanding the connection between chakras and emotional wounds can help release trauma and restore balance to our lives. The root chakra, which represents presence and feeling stable, is often associated with traumatic experiences related to family issues or difficult upbringing. Emotional problems affecting the Solar Plex Chakra can block its proper function, leading to eating disorders, perfectionism, and criticism.
The root chakra is the energy center most related to traumatic experiences and memories. All seven chakras store traumatic and difficult memories that correspond to their unique life themes and emotional lessons. The third eye chakra, located between the eyebrows, is responsible for psychic concerns. The Solar Plexus chakra is often where traumatic feelings are stored because it is connected to our sense of tribal belonging. Traumas stem from encounters with societal forces that push us to the brink of breakdown, often involving abusive and traumatic experiences.
To cope with past traumas, chakra healing involves self-exploration, self-compassion, creative expression, and embracing sensuality for chakra realignment. The root chakra, or Muladhara, is our body’s most primal and fundamental energy center, located at the base of our spine. When involved in a traumatic experience, the energy of the event interferes with the inherent healthy energetic structure of your chakras.
In conclusion, understanding the connection between chakras and emotional wounds can help release trauma and restore balance in our lives.
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What chakra is associated with trauma?
The ancient chakra system offers a unique perspective on the impact of traumatic experiences on individuals. Traumas contain specific chakra interactions, such as 2+4, 3+5, and 1+2, which shape the impact of the trauma. When recalling a traumatic experience, it is crucial to pay attention to the sensations that indicate the trauma’s source, which can be linked to a specific chakra or combination. It is essential to recognize that the body and chakras possess wisdom beyond our conscious knowledge and expectations.
Integrating this awareness of chakra interactions and the body’s response into trauma healing practices allows for a more targeted and comprehensive healing process, addressing specific chakra imbalances and restoring balance and harmony within the entire energy system. This holistic approach opens up new avenues for healing and growth on multiple levels, allowing individuals to regain a sense of safety, empowerment, love, self-expression, perception, spirituality, and purpose. Embracing this holistic approach empowers individuals to move towards a more fulfilling and authentic life, guided by the wisdom of their own energy system.
Which chakra is victim?
The first chakra is related to security, while the second chakra deals with personal responsibility, self-expression, and self-worth. The remedy is the earth mother, who nurtures oneself. The third chakra deals with self-esteem, personal power, and relationship with oneself. The healthy archetype is the spiritual warrior, who balances inner strength with belief in a divine guiding force. The opposite is the drudge, who depends on others for approval and projects their power onto others. The fourth chakra balances the love of others and oneself. The lover is healthy as they own themselves and radiate love, while the performer seeks external love to heal wounds.
How to release trauma from the heart chakra?
One may engage in guided meditations with the objective of balancing the energies associated with the heart chakra. Additionally, one may explore the potential of Reiki to facilitate the opening of this energy center.
What chakra heals anxiety?
Regular chakra meditation can assist individuals in identifying and addressing the underlying causes of their anxiety by focusing on specific chakras, such as the root chakra for security or the heart chakra for emotional stability.
How do you release trapped trauma energy?
Somatic therapy, acupressure, breathwork, meditation, yoga, EMDR, dance, music, theater, and group vocalizing are all holistic therapies used to release trauma and heal. These therapies help unwind the past, restoring peace, empowerment, and purpose. By honoring the body’s role in processing trauma, individuals can live more fully in the present, reducing stress and promoting connection. Kazmo Brain Center offers a variety of holistic therapies, including somatic therapy, EMDR, meditation, and group work, tailored to individual needs.
Which chakra heals emotions?
The sacral chakra, the second chakra in the human body, is believed to govern sexuality, creative expression, and emotions. It can become blocked and unbalanced, like other chakras. Complementary therapies like meditation, affirmations, and essential oils and crystals aim to heal and balance the sacral chakra. While these practices are not scientifically supported, they are generally considered safe as a supplement to a healthy lifestyle and medical care.
What chakra holds guilt?
The Relive and Relieve process is a technique used in chakra energisation experiences, which involves reliving negative emotions that disempower one. These emotions, whether believed or not, control our emotions, which in turn affect them. The lower two chakras, root and sacral, are related to survival, safety, and growth, while the upper two chakras, root and sacral, are related to greed and fear, leading to guilt, regret, shame, frustration, anger, and stress.
The process can be practiced without knowledge of energy centres or belief in them. It is similar to Gestalt and NLP processes of Reframing and works with all disempowering emotions. The process involves reliving the grief, loss, fear, anger, or any negative emotion that disempowers one, allowing body sensations to arise. These emotions can create somatic or body sensations anywhere from the bottom of the spine to the top, covering the polyvagal autonomic nervous system in modern neuroscience.
Which chakra is blocked by anxiety?
The heart chakra, a key energy center in the body, is believed to be linked to emotional and physical health. Research on the role of chakras in anxiety development or management is limited. While occasional anxiety is a natural response to stress, intense anxiety can interfere with navigating the world and relationships. Chakras, wheel-like energy centers in the body, are believed to be influenced by emotions, lifestyle choices, and thoughts. Consequently, experiencing anxiety can lead to feelings of defensiveness towards criticism and personal attacks.
What chakra is blocked by guilt?
The sacral chakra, located above the base of the spine, represents pleasure, desire, creativity, sexuality, procreation, and well-being. Its color is orange. Blocking this chakra can lead to compulsive behavior, emotional issues, and sexual guilt. The solar plexus chakra, located near the navel, is associated with anger, joy, laughter, and personal power. Its color is yellow. Blocking this chakra may result in a lack of direction, frustration, anger, or victimization.
The heart chakra, the center of love, brings compassion, peace, and harmony. Its color is green. Blocking this chakra may manifest as immune system, heart, or lung issues or a lack of compassion, inhumanity, or unethical behavior.
Which chakra is for mental illness?
A blocked Base Chakra can result in a range of mental health issues, including feelings of depletion, hopelessness, unfounded anxiety, and loneliness. A sense of grounding is beneficial in the management of stress and the attainment of clarity.
Which chakra is overthinking?
An imbalance in the third eye chakra can result in a tendency to overthink, anxiety, a sense of spiritual disconnection, and mental distress.
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The best way to heal trauma in my experience is to be completely 100% present in the discomfort, and the feelings that arise in the moment. Be the awareness of the feelings that arise, rather than unconsciously attaching to them as “who we are”. It’s all just patterns conditioning that is playing out and is something that needs to be “completed” by shining the light of awareness on it. It is not always easy but when you fully accept the feeling is there, it then eventually goes away. Thanks as always Eckhart for the impact you’re having on the planet right now. Much Love. 🙏
If youre reading this, know that you are worthy of anything you desire. But you might have to let go of the past and release the huge accumulation of fear based beliefs and emotions you have picked up since childhood. Success isnt created by accident but by design. You have a creative mind and unlimited potential. Never forget it. Stay strong and be blessed 🙏
Pain comes in waves. Look at the pain, respect the pain, accept the pain and then transcendance of pain, with a willingness to give it over to the universe and an open heart of self-love and nurture can take place. Gratitude, hope and your imagination; this is the innocence in you that can be rekindled whenever you call upon it. A combination of journaling, energy work with emotional and energetic release, verbal declarations with spirit, meditation and walking in nature, affirmations and engaging in the creative arts has helped me. Rise from the ashes of tragedy, reborn.
‘you feed the old pain with the memory of what happened…’ ‘the acceptance itself creates the space’ ‘more and more who you are is not identified in, lodged with the pain’ ‘the sense of self begins to move out of the pain… the sense of self shifts from being identified with the pain and the suffering me to being the space behind or around it’ ‘Practise being the space when you are not in the grip of the pain’ ‘Disidentifying from the mental and emotional content that still lives in you, some fine, some painful, but without the ‘me’ in it … disidentify so that it no longer has a sense of self in it’ ‘It can happen that ppl identify with some pain/something that happened to them in the past and it needs pointing out that that is not them.’ Thank you Eckhart
This article is a healing in itself. 💞❤️There is only one retreat: the heart. We are one human race nammed mankind so let’s spread the kindness in us all over the planet. Be kind to yourself and to others. Trauma is a miraculous opportunity and there is only one great medecine to it and here it comes : true acceptance and true gratitude to the whole situation in and out which means love. This is a door way to Grace. Thank you Mr Tolle for your wisdom. ❤️❤️❤️🙏
Man, I love you Eckhart. I’ve been really struggling the last few weeks for a number of reasons and I have noticed my ego has been thrashing about in me. It has felt exhausting almost being dragged along by it at times, like a big dog out of control pulling it’s owner along on the lead. I have even felt resistance to meditating – the thing that I know will help calm me down. I’m grateful for the notification to watch this article – it has helped me release some of the pressure I was holding in. Thank you.
Like his words. ” The pain is there and you are in the space around it. ” In my sessions with clients I sometimes use a meditation of “the safe”. A way to distance yourself from old pain. Recently I did this meditation with a couple who have spent their lives (60 to 70 years) fighting against their terrible childhood traumas. By now daily putting their bad experiences in their imaginary safe, (where only they can access) the worst nightmares and flashbacks disappeared. As a result, they no longer identify with their old pain. Beautiful how he explains this!
Listening to Eckhart Tolle brings me to tears of joy✨ The “presence” that continually surrounds and engulfs us, LOVE, is always with us. As stated by Jesus, “and surely I AM with you always, even until the end of the age.” We commune with “presence, love, Holy Spirit” in the silence of our minds, where the heart sings✨
It’s a blessing and a grace listening to you Echart! After almost three years feeling dead inside, I felt today something started to move! Very old trauma after divorce of my parents when I was 10, lasted for 15 years, exactly as Echart’s experienced, and severe others traumas after went on for last 50 years. More than enough suffering. I believe you opened a door for a new light of consciousness through dis identification of pain body, anger, beeing a victim. Thank you, God bless you, all my love 😍
Wow. He has sooo much insight into this subject. I think that when anyone complains or cries out or is hurting that that is a big deal and should be met with the most compassion I can muster. This is because sometimes people have been through so much and they may just need to complain about something menial because really they can not explain the deep pain in their life that they may be experiencing if they are only an acquaintance. So I listen and I am sensitive to all others. I love this talk. I need to hit the repeat. I fully agree with it. I am excited to navigate trauma better; my own and perhaps be used as a tool to help heal others trauma, those who are open to it. It’s so exciting that we can heal together, if we are willing to.
I had a pretty traumatic day a couple of days ago but somehow I kept it together. I usually cry and break down but this time I decided to go with the flow. I cried later to release but at the time of craziness that was happening, I acknowledged it but did not let it pull me down that rabbit hole. I’m a work in progress
Thank you🙏🏼 I’ve learned about trauma and trauma informed dharma only last year. I’ve been living in Buddhist communities, studying and doing retreats for years. I thought I was doing well until circumstances changed and I opened myself to an intimate relationship that I tried to avoid before. Oh dear… Suddenly all the teachings I learned were forgotten and there was only pain. After months of anxiety and agony I finally gave up and looked for help. I ended up with a fantastic psychotherapist and the EMDR sessions helped me so much – it’s been quite a miraculous journey from them on… Also I did a course on trauma informed dharma which was mind blowing😅 Really fantastic stuff! Ever heard of spiritual bypassing? Well… I certainly have ☺️ May all the healed from trauma 🙏🏼❤️
Dear Echkart ! I think “how many times do I have to listen to this, before spasciousness arrives ? The trauma built on early traumas. My childhood was also One long drama. But my patents didn’t her divorsed – unfortunately ! Much later as an adullt, I went to a thetapist for 3 years – i did not get ridd of the trauma ! I cry very much, when under pressure the painbody tales over ! I thought that all the listening to You daily for more than 2 years now had helped me to be conscious much more – but will I be able to leave the painbody “outside” before I die – This is very hard work, harder than any challenge I ever had in my 69 years in this life. I am thankful to You for bringing light to these very painfull emotions many human beings suffer from ❤
There is a part of you that is already healed, that has never been anything but whole and perfect. Pain and trauma happens to the body and mind but not to the awareness that is truly YOU. You are whole and perfect and still. Life is happening in that stillness, that WHOLENESS. Everything else ( good or bad) is just flowing through that wholeness. We mistakenly identify with events that happen inside that space . But we ARE the space which holds all things .
It needs a great amount of presence for feeling the pain-body in its entire insanity. There are many repressed feelings we also carry in our bodies. We need to heighten the presence so as not be endlessly caught in the grip of old patterns, ancient schemes. It is not easy; from my experience it is an everyday training of the presence muscle. Patience is a virtue to enhance little by little. It is an ongoing process😊 I often get caught in the threads of my own pain-body. In the middle of its manifestations or at the end of them, I somehow remember the teaching of Eckhart. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing such a powerful message. I used to play eckart tolle daily as I worked from home in my IT job. After awhile people used to notice and comment on how peaceful and calm I always was. Years passed and Now I am back to commuting to work again, except for lately, and I temporarily lost much of that peace. I feel like I want to go back to the practice of listening and going within, otherwise the world out there (disharmonious energy) can start to creep in and disturb your peace. I’ve noticed several of my neighbors with high degrees of disharmony and hostility and I just keep going within. I don’t engage with them.
I find the following to be so true, in the past and then present I suffered with many things and people yet wished I could keep them and that they were good for me or that would work out only if I did my best and made enough effort. Today I see it was never meant to be and I’m better off without them. “People retrospectively become thankful for their suffering” – Eckhart Tolle
The Guest House by Rumi, a poem for the broken-hearted. … Such is the popular poem ‘The Guest House’ by 13th century Persian poet Rumi. The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
This is very timely. I’m processing some pain that my mother unearthed yesterday. I was until then unaware that I had been resisting that pain for decades. So today, I’m experiencing waves of pain and crying. But I’m just allowing that pain to be what it is and acknowledging its origins. Not attaching any judgements to it or wishing for justice or any external acknowledgment of wrongdoing, but just allowing it to flow through me. I’m perusal the thinker and doing my best to feel the fact that I’m the watcher, not the thinker.
I am going to do trauma release exercises in conjunction with Eckhart Tolle as currently, I may not have the resources to deal with the emotions that come up, also I think 5he exercises will help me stop mentally and verbally having intrusive dialogue while trying to be in the here and now. I read Peter Levineards, he ties in well with Eckhart Tolle’s teachings as he goes into great detail with regards to how trauma is held in the body, and will signpost me to the right way to release this trauma.
I know what you mean by dispersed trauma. There were certainly events as well. I used to live in every time period but the present. Now I live in the present and I am FOREVER filled with gratitude for the pain that caused my conciousness. I wouldn’t trade anything for this ability to see clearly. I always thought I was incredibly unlucky, turns out the opposite was true. My mom is deep in egoic narcissistic patterns so we only see each other once a month. I’m so proud of my dad. He has even started perusal and loving an Eckhart vid I sent him. He’s not the most tech savvy so I was SO pleasantly surprised. I love all of you and wish you presence and I feel all of your conciousness all the time and it fills me with joy.
I been experiencing something when I’m being the space and meditating during Ayahuasca ceremonies, I start vomiting, shaking, releasing all this trauma energy and it feels like it’s this inner presence that’s enabling the release to happen. I don’t completely understand it but I can feel it like these dense energies trapped in my energy field are being released
Excellent…… Everyone acts according to their consciousness….. Learning to be with whatever feelings are moving through us, whatever sensations are moving through us, whenever thoughts are moving through us, without resistance, simply allowing ourselves to experience whatever is moving through us
I am a single mother of 1 child- at age 20 he drowned in a raging river. As a mother…this is so much deeper than outside external traumas….i will re listen to his words….but when your child- only child dies traumatically and you have no family or friends that can support whatsoever…this seems an impossible feat……ask any grieving childless mom. AliveAlone
The pain is the soul telling us dont be ego, separate or critical but stay in the presence and be a loving person that is not ego, separate or critical, but today we identify whit the pain instead and use all our energy to hold the pain back so we can use words and a game to act and talk true instead. In this “lures” we suffer and become a person that is not worthy anything…
I had a friend. He told me about you 12 years ago. I never did read the books. I sadly no longer have them. But I have this longing to listen to you. To read those books. To learn what you are sharing. I need your wisdom. I have been looking my whole life for the right wisdom. I am lazy. Too lazy. Too afraid. Please help me. Guide me. Teach me. Show me.
I’m lucky and thankful to understand English but there are thousands of people that are missing your important message cause it’s been a whole month without the translation in Spanish, I hope this is not another evil game from YouTube as they did with Mindalia TV or Pandora, websites of human awakening of human conscience. Please I hope my comment helps to reactivate the articles in Spanish for us, it’s really important that Latin America or Spain or other Spanish speakers enjoy and profit your important message, Mr. Tolle. Thank you very much, cheers from Salta, ARGENTINA.
Also look into Peter Levine’s trauma release. Holding one hand on your forehead and one on the chest is calming and releasing trauma that is trapped in the psychical body. And EFT is a gentle and easy way to release emotional triggers and can help with trauma and difficult thoughts and feelings. Brad Yates has many free articles on you tube.
I Am affirmations work. Because I know what it feels like to identify with your pains and I’ve learned I’m so much more so I’m rewiring my subconscious and talking to my pain parts with Love and saying they are healthy healing and healed. I Am healthy healing and healed, every cell, every molecule, every bit, every wit.
Whatever happened to crying? I don’t hear it mentioned very often… Breathing into the pain, feel it fully, embrace it with love and care and cry it out? Maybe I am simplifying but still… I have cptsd and am scared of most humans (scared they will lash out and hurt me). When I spend time alone I can more easily think of them as just hurt children, and I cry for theirs and my own pain. Until I feel better. And then I am better equipped to going out and be present in the world, able to meditate and so on. Sometimes I interpret Eckharts teachings like we are meant to bypass it or just ignore it, see it as something that is just there. Maybe taking better care of our bodies and emotions is the first step, and enlightenment is the last?
Great teaching by Eckhart, it is an important reminder to not identify with our thoughts and emotions and just watch them. I have a website about dealing with thoughts and having a healthy relationship with them, dis identifying with them and dealing with depression and anxiety, Personally I dealt with a huge pain body so painful I almost had no choice to dis identify. Anyway I’m sharing this because I wanted to and I noticed my EGO saying “Daniel it’s a dick move to self promote on another’s website” so just for the heck of it I decided to share because maybe it will help some people haha! Anyway I’m blabbering about have a great day people!
I’d love to know your thoughts on those of us dealing with chronic physical pain from injuries, surgeries and degenerative conditions. The pain is a huge blessing in keeping me present but it’s a curse because it limits me from longer meditations and inquiring from within. There is no comfortable position to meditate in. It’s just which position is best for the longest until I have to move.
I am retired now, but I cured emotional trauma every day when I was working. There are several different techniques that work very well. I used Emotional Freedom techniques and Eye Movement Integration for the most part. They are described on You Tube by experienced practitioners. They work quickly and are more effective than anything else that I have ever seen. Eckhart Tolle is a wonderful teacher. He may not know this information. There are two others that I know of called EMDR and NLP. They also are described on You Tube. If there is no one near where you live, many therapists offer to see clients on Skype and will work with you through the internet. It won’t be too expensive because it only takes a small number of sessions to rid you of even the worst suffering from PTSD and other traumas. Look into it. You will be glad you did. Over the years, I’ve treated many different traumas, and none ever failed to improve.
I could write a book on my trauma but all that trauma that was consumed in me I have turned into love raised my consciousness and my love vibrations. But one day I will do a book to tell people that we have the power to transmute that negative lingering pain into love! It’s a process but it can be done!
Accepting the pain while being the Space / (observing)around that pain is the only path to peace. The most painful thing that could have happened to me – did happen recently & running or resisting doesn’t work – it creates more pain and I’ve actually had life threatening accidents . Better to use as Spiritual Growth & increased consciousness and compassion
Having just started listening to this, I realize I am carrying heavy past life trauma. I have done as much cleansing as I know to do for this life. If anyone has dealt with this past life pain, I would appreciate feedback. How were you able to define it and cleanse it? I will try my own meditative practice, in the meantime, to see if I can identify exactly what it was. Ideas are coming, just not clear.
How is it for those, who inflicted the trauma? In my experience, during awakening, before the full load of trauma hit me and I have been emotionally, mentally and spiritually abused and gaslit in the most cruel ways over a long period of time, it was fully clear that what we do to another we do to ourselves. Instead of “getting rid” of the pain we carry, we enhance it and have to deal with it later. As trauma energy.
8:43 Yes! Thank you so much. 9:21 This is what has been happening to me, as of late. The “trying” to get past the deep trauma. And explaining it to a counselor to do Inner Child work and feel more despairing and despondent in verbally rehashing it again. I wake up in a panic, a dread. If I would just “BE”, I could transcend???😢🙏💔🙌💖🥲🙏🙏🙏How do I handle, no transcend a toxic (ended) relationship with someone who is unable to give me the “space” to be…to breathe? Thank you Eckhart. Please advise which of your teachings to watch next? Although I care deeply for this person, yes, even Love them, I am fearful I would not be able to grow in their presence. I feel such a sense of loss. And I know he feels abandoned.
I scrolled through the comments to see if I could get a glimpse of who the “dislikes” were. I see at least a couple are professionals who seem to be upset that this is being offered for free, or maybe they feel threatened about their own methods. Perhaps they might want to look at the ego presentations? If you are a committed, experienced healer, I’m not sure how you can find fault in this.
This is very difficult. I suffer from complex ptsd and when i hold space for my thoughts and my pain body i dissociate and feel the trauma again. A very uncomfortable place to be in. I dont know how i should manage all of this. I feel overwhelmed by the practice, by my pain body, by my physical pain and life by it self.
yeah when you have a bad memory come you kind of delve into it and then all the same emotions you felt at that moment of trauma comes back and you feel like your back there again in that moment i stopped doing that bc of mindfulness i now turn my focus to anything else in the room so i will stare at a plant then i will say what colour is the plant and i keep doing this with objects until I’m gnoring that negative memory mindfulness really works
But I must also add that, despite those events, I am the only high school and college graduate of my mom’s 3 children, the only high school and college graduate of my father’s 5 sons, the only one of my father’s 9 children to graduate from college, and the only one of 9 with a professional occupation. As I reflection, despite those painful experiences, I am striving to identify, not with those many accomplishments aforementioned, but that which enabled me to achieve them.
Maybe, wen you don’t react to pain, it can’t control you at all anymore. When pain can’t even create a thought in you that’s when you are free of pain completely. When pain can’t start a chain reaction inside ourselves, then it becomes powerless. When it can’t start a chain reaction in ourselves, the pain is eradicated. I don’t know if i have understood it correctly…
Trauma=old pain brought on by old/new suffering= eliminate pain=ACCEPT PAIN CUZ IT ALLOWS IT 2 MOVE AWAY 5. 5. 5 Twin flame= PAIN@ITSWORST=MIRROR OF ILLUSIONS(Separation)SET UP 2 DEAL WITH PAIN INSIDE URSELF. TWIN=IDENTICAL CUZ ITS UR OTHER SELF. DO U CHOOSE HIGHER OR LOWER? OTHER SELF FORCES U 2 SEE DIFFERENCE AND MAKE A CHOICE. 2 B OR NOT 2 B??? B=BALANCED WITH LIGHT N DARK
The mental virus takes over my mind, not just 75%, but 100%. As recent as today, and I become entirely consumed with protecting my ego. It wasn’t this intense before, but lately my ego has felt more and more threatened. I do calm down and let go after a while. My question is, broadly speaking, where do we begin in transcending mind and body?
9:15 your identity not in the old pain. Attempt of ego to hold on to it to survive. When ifldentity is involved it takes over your thought processes. 11:30 the main thing is old pain must not take over your thought processes and control your thinking so it comes up so and accept and keeps it from Moving into you mind and all thoughts so control your thoughts and renews it all the time. 13:15 the pain is too much and it cracks open into Your Identity is in it. Or the ego becomes stronger
I know a lot of people who suffered traumatic experiences at a point in their life. I fact only few did not. I heard that the imprint from traumatic stress to the body is inherited at least 3 generations. No wonder, almost everyone is so easyl influenceable by fear-inducing pictures and stories. It is not “just” fear of death, the ego has. As we can see now (in 2021) this goes deep, and there are factions using it quite intentionally. Every time when wars start this happens. And every war traumatises so many people. Consider this before you say “it’s the ego”. It is the ego, right. An ego, formed by trauma. This has to be understood.
This is useful information in many ways; however, it’s interesting how Tolle subtlely did what he said his dad did for years, “You think you have pain, let me tell you about pain…” Sometimes he falls into the error of treating evil as merely inconvenient on the path to eternal bliss. It’s meaning is deeper than that and none of his often useful tools really work against real evil, which often results in real trauma. Unfortunately, we live in a world where in order to gain transcendance we must work through some pretty murky stuff and without doing that work, the dream of oneness with God is elusive. Still, he is at least pointing people in the right direction, even if he’s pointing to the top of the mountain and minimizing the long trek up the slopes and its many pitfalls. For a thorouglh delination of that, I would recommend reading the Spanish mystics, especially John of the Cross.
Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and calm, a Self that has been sheltered from destruction by the various protectors that have emerged in their efforts to ensure survival. Once those protectors trust that it is safe to separate, the Self will spontaneously emerge, and the parts can be enlisted in the healing process. Rather than being a passive observer, this mindful Self can help reorganize the inner system and communicate with the parts in ways that help those parts trust that there is someone inside who can handle things. Again neuroscience research shows that this is not just a metaphor. Mindfulness increases activation of the medial prefrontal cortex and decreases activation of structures like the amygdala that trigger our emotional responses. This increases our control over the emotional brain
Would I find interesting is that Eckert identifies the ego with form. Kabbalists identify the ego with taking or preoccupation with receiving rather than giving. Kabbalah is the study, supposedly, of the science of the force And how it operates.. For they say that the formless is rather unstudyable and therefore outside the realm of religion and science of studying God. So, if the study of the thing we call God is the study of how It operates and since you can’t study the formless aspect of God. Apparently we are expected to acknowledge that it’s there (formless aspect) but we are supposed to say we just could never understand it. What Eckhart Tolle is saying is rather we should go back into it and become it. So that rather than learning how to make receiving into a productive art form where you receive in order to give more Tolle is taking a shortcut straight to formlessness. What that means must have a great importance but I haven’t quite put my finger on it yet.
You can never heal trauma on your own. You always need support and help and you need to dig deep, until the time of pregnancy, since a lot of injuries and painful experiences happen then. The best therapy for trauma and deep sorrow I know is the Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy, in combination with manual therapy (like Shiatsu, Osteopathy).
I wish I could ask Eckhart Tolle something in person… I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder ; my normal voice that’s in my head is very polite and respectful and positive but I have another voice in my head that’s very naughty.. this second voice in my head always says the most inappropriate thing it can think of in that moment.. should I continue trying to suppress this voice or should I accept it completely and allow it to say whatever it wants?
Everything you say makes logical sense to me yet I have been driven like a woman possessed since I was teenager.(abuse by church) I just want out of this madness I really don’t think I know who I am as I feel that took my identity. I’m being very candid here for I know a lot of abused are messed up like me.
I have schizophrenia due to a trauma from when I was a child that led me to lack self-confidence. time passed and passed and at the age of 19 studying at the university I had a psychotic break. I am 27 years old now. As a result, there has been constant suffering in my life. I can’t find a way to have confidence in myself so I have many fears. Any idea what to do with the disorder? I am very lost although I am aware of my disorder
If you’ve been through trauma, PLEASE look into EMDR (Eye Movement Densensitization and Reprogramming) therapy. Scary sounding title but a life changing, liberating therapy. I was extensively abused as a child and adult. The resulting complex-ptsd landed me in hospital psychiatric ward and many years of conventional therapies. From the second session with my EMDR therapist, I had huuuuge benefit. More than years of conventional therapies! Please don’t let past suffering influence you anymore. It can be very difficult to overcome by yourself. It’s really transformed my life, happy to reply if anyone has questions. Sending all blessing energy 💕
I think I’m realizing a big part of me not being able to let go of my own pain is that I believe I’m being punished and I deserve it. Logic has no place in these thoughts–they feel beyond reason or rationale. I feel like if I don’t accept this penance I will suffer even more and bring anyone that comes into contact with me into that suffering. My partner has just about lost his mind trying to show me how “silly” these thoughts are so then I just don’t say anything which makes everything worse.
It absolutely is not true that unless you are realised you are completely in grip of the trauma. Modern, based on neuropsychology trauma therapies do work. Moreover resurfacing the trauma during meditation may cause retraumatisation making trauma symptoms much more severe. The safe solution may be trauma informed meditation.
The problem about trauma is that alot of people are searching for healing by spiritual teachers while their nervous system is freezed or running in fight or flight. Only modern method’s like EMDR, Tension Realease Exercises (TRE) or somatic experincing which is based on the polyvagal theory (by stephen porges) can ONLY transform an old trauma, in my opinion!
Im curious about how Traumas in childhood can transform or appear in different kind of pains or situations. And how to work on healing that. I got bullied during my teenage and back then I always victimized myself and wanted people to feel bad for me. Now I’m almost 30 and I see myself wishing that others would feel bad for me, so they change their behaviour. That’s only my inferring.
No matter how bad it is, always remember it happened “TO YOU” it is never you. You are formless spaciousness experiencing it which is a realization in itself. Like our lord jezus said. “Be in the world, but not of it” Everything that happens should be acknowledged and surrendered instead of identified and integrated. What also works if the trauma is too big, don’t try to surrender and let go the whole trauma but start with small parts around it and work yourself to the core. You do this all in meditation with no distractions.
Just went through a terrible break up. I have had so much trauma in my life and this break up stirred all of that up… actually the whole relationship stirred up all of my trauma. He was so mean and hurtful at the end…. I didn’t even realize he was breaking up with me at first. I said I love you… you aren’t braking up with me are you and he put me down through this long email and was extremely callous and hurtful…. Of course my ego flared up and I lashed out… It’s so sad that I allowed my ego to go that way. I should have said things in a more Peaceful manner. He was being so hurtful. I am so hurt and confused now by this last year in my life that I feel like I was tricked. I wish I could have been more like Eckhart during the last moments he was being that hurtful. At least I could have left with my dignity.
What is so strange to me is; we seem to have a ‘real; self, that is;’who we are’, and it seems to be very obvious to discover it, because we are this always, . All teachers talk about this deeper self, and then they start to pay all the attention to the ún-real’self, the mind, the body and the ego, how to manage this illusion in a dream, .and all the so-called feelings, emotions, patterns and endless troubles,. What is the goal? to clean-out the old self, that is not even real, or the establisch in the Real self, and live by it?
Pourquoi ne pas traduire cette conférence, j’ai perdu mon mari et je suis en grande souffrance, et cette conférence m’aurait vraiment été utile . Car le traumatisme est immense, j’ai constaté la mort de mon mari sur le lit de l’hôpital. Il est mort tout seul, et je souffre encore après 3 ans de ne pas avoir pu lui dire au revoir. Comment sortir cette souffrance de ma tête ! Merci beaucoup.
Only way this make sense to me is to visualize all I see is ego is like a blob and absorbs all these things little by little and as it collects it grows as you identify with it and you can get carried away consumed so as such I suppose trauma only happened to my body but I itsself experience nothing….?
I just say don’t drive yourself then keep busy yourself go walk forget just think that was before think it now don’t drive yourself keep busy yourself next people’s go to church pray to God to help you to forget your fast just pray to lord that help you to forget yourself trust to God don’t think about its done pray look after herself trust God the help you bless as all amen peace talk to mammary the help you