. Vladimir Kush Paintings:
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Whatever assumptions you have about yourself, no matter how reasonable they might be, they are still a creation in the present. By believing in them, by thinking and holding to them, you’re continually creating yourself as a personality. Awakeness is not a creation
Ajahn Sumedh.
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Quit worrying about oneself and live freely.
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Let concern about oneself fade, opening up the world, healing and bringing happiness to life.
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Let go, surrender to fear, the story, the panic and the desire to escape.
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Healing is right in front of you, inside you not externally located.
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Repeated SNS/HPAA (sympathetic nervous system/hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis) makes the amygdala more reactive to apparent threats, which in turn increases SNS/HPAA activation, which sensitizes the amygdala further.
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The mental correlate of this physical process is an increasingly rapid arousal of state anxiety (anxiety based on specific situations).
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Additionally, the amygdala helps form implicit memories (traces of past experiences that exist beneath conscious awareness); as it becomes more sensitized, it increasingly shades those residues with fear, thus intensifying trait anxiety (ongoing anxiety regardless of the situation).
Today, let us try something, that feels a little uncomfortable. Notice the pattern of the minds machinations preparing to face uncomfortable. Is dread, doom, anxiety and avoidance present?
Follow the emotions that arise around this uncomfortable task. Does the mind try to avoid, does it weave a scenario of what could happen, going towards uncomfortable?
Do we sense danger, doom, shame or loss of self worth? Do we seek out the pleasant and avoid the unpleasant? Do circumstances and situations bring avoidance and anxiety?
Start with the feeling of uncomfortable, today, and see the pattern the mind has chosen.
“Surrender! The most basic thing is: surrender to reality.
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The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will create obstructions. The more you fight with reality, the more you will be a loser. Of course, through fighting you can attain to the ego, you can become a very strong ego, but your ego will be the hindrance.
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They should be completely surrendered to the river of life, completely surrendered to the river of existence. In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
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And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.”
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It takes working with every thought to change life time habits.
This is practice, using adrenal stress in a Survival situation. We experience the tunnel vision, hearing shutdown, loss of fine motor skills, and increase in heart rate,respiration and blood pressure? It is the ability to follow our breaths and act calmly when we are triggered. Learn that PTSD can not stop you from living your life first.
This video has some great info on the brain and the science of fear. The graphics of the brain and amygdala are the best I have seen. This is about a couple of exercises to react to fear and freeze responses.
Exploring awkward, uncomfortable or annoying can shed light on emotions and perspective on the minds role. These emotions are only slightly negative and easier to work with than fear or anger.
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Search out a person who annoys you or a situation you feel awkward in, then focus on your breath and let go. Let awkward exist on its own without engaging it, that is without thought.
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Practice this scenarios until awkward shifts and becomes something entirely different. Awkward left alone fades quickly. Engaging awkward helps it grow and leads to avoidance.
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Healing comes with staying present when trigger fears arrive or explode. This is called integration. Avoidance is the polar opposite. If we leave this moment to grip emotions or thought, trauma grows.
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Mindfulness makes integrating, staying present without thought possible. Our trauma is stored in our amygdala, a mind organ that can not be accessed consciously. We know this because we all have tried to talk our way out of fear and trauma many times.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller
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Why not be a part of those overcoming suffering, then share your healing with others. Take responsibility for your life, completely.
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Bury the past as it is over. Be present and focus on making right now come alive. Be aware of life passing you by, when thoughts randomly entice us into dissociation.
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Simple daily action may change your life. Being sedentary brings that suffering to our doorstep.
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Accept you, then live in spite of fear, doubt and worry. It takes mental action and willpower.
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. – Unknown
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Life’s challenges and problems do not go away for healing to take hold. We learn to accept and pursue daily action in spite of outside stimulus. Happiness is everywhere around us, in the challenges or hardships it is abundant.
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Do not look to avoid or run, accept without tensing up and feel alive, free for a change. We have so many breaths before we expire from this planet whether, we worry or relax! Our choice.
“After all, stress is necessary for growth. Without it the mind and body weaken and atrophy.”
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Life will bring us one challenge after another, it is life. If we could accept our challenges instead of judging them, life would change drastically. We seem to complain and resist our challenges. Happiness is present inside every challenge.
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When one of life’s challenges finishes another is alway around the bend. PTSD brings avoidance to our challenges and life. Avoid and suffer, accept life and stay present to live fully.
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Things, situations or people will never be perfect or easy. So many are waiting for outside stimulus to be calm or favorable. This limits life and promotes more suffering. look how long trauma haunts people for life.
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My childhood trauma was not going away by avoiding. Life always had situations that were challenging or stressful. Suffering can be endless with certain behavior.
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How does your behavior impact your trauma?
The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) is based on teaching people a basic set of self-stabilization skills that help reregulate the nervous system in the wake of upsetting and traumatic experiences. Below are the five biologically based TRM skills that we teach within this model.
Skill 1:Tracking is achieved through observation, self-report by the client, and attunement between the practitioner and client.
Skill 2:Grounding refers to our sense of the present time and space, and is the secure foundation upon which we build our interpersonal relationships.
Skill 3:Resourcing is a technique for focusing awareness on positive experiences—highly valued relationships, fond memories, imagined events—that trigger a sense of well-being.
Skill 4:Resource Intensification refers to the process of helping people enhance the multisensory sensations that arise from paying attention to personal resources.
Skill 5:Shift and Stay is a self-help skill. The client learns to shift attention from distressing sensations that may arise or be triggered during the day to more comforting sensations associated with Grounding and Resourcing, and then stay attuned to the comforting sensations until regulation occurs.
. Vladimir Kush Paintings:
Exploring awkward, uncomfortable or annoying can shed light on emotions and perspective on the minds role. These emotions are only slightly negative and easier to work with than fear or anger.
