The mind, under attack from a trauma thought, becomes overwhelmed with tunnel vision, hearing blackout, followed by the loss of fine motor skills. We have a tendency to freeze up at this harrowing time.
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Bruce Siddle, in Sharpening the Warriors Edge, says that we need certain parameters, for a skill to hold up under this kind of pressure.
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The skill must be simple, quickly learnable, and accepted subconsciously as pertinent, so we will practice, as though our life depended on it. Your mental life actually does in this instance.
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That skill for us is the breathing track, with a concrete, simple model that will stand up and be available, when under adrenal stress.
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Practice, every day, whether we feel good or bad, if the sun comes up; we practice. Simple!
Posted by Anonymous on February 13, 2012 at 3:07 am
Thank you for concise, accessible, concrete information.
Posted by Marty on April 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
If all your practice or reading falls apart when a trigger erupts, it isn’t simple enough to hold up under adrenal stress.
Think about it, if you can stay present when triggers explode then the rest of trauma collapses. If you can handle when the pressure and fear is the greatest, the rest fades quickly.
So my premise is that we go towards our trigger with the breathing track because it does hold up, I now I have done it.