PTSD and Change: Trauma and Pain; and the Psychospiritual and Hypnotic Aspects of Recalcitrant and Chronic Pain
Pain is associated with trauma. The pain begins as a warning that something is wrong, and then may linger as a reminder to take it easy and protect the damaged part.
But after healing has occurred, the pain should go away. It will not go away if healing is incomplete or if there is something that makes a person think that healing has not occurred.
Mostly the physical healing takes place, but not psychological healing. There is a natural process of grieving that takes place when there is a loss. There is a natural process of recovery that involves repair, compensation, renervation, retraining, and restoration of function.
Pain means unforgiveness. Pain means anger. Pain means rage. It may be against others; it may be against the condition; or it may be against self or God.
Physical pain becomes the symbol of psychic pain. And the remembrance brings pain.
Memories become symbols which have the power through hypnosis to bring back the circumstance to mind. This is called the hypnosis of pain.
Now the pain becomes the mechanism of bringing back the trauma scene. Pain is more constant than pleasure, so it is effective at recalling and holding onto a memory that serves the ego.
Every psychic value will create a condition. Every emotion, being a lower , intermediate but corresponding step between psyche and matter or body will contribute to or help to create a material physical circumstance.
Can you see that emotions or physical responses (such as the immune response or allergic responses) can be used by let's say an unscrupulous person with a knowledge of chemistry against a person's best interests. Wrong ideas, wrong suggestions, wrong additives can stimulate the body to over-react. Some believers in voodoo have been known to drop dead if they thought they had been cursed. A body can have an over-reaction to a bee sting, a vaccine, or a chemical and a brain inflammation or anaphylactic shock can disable or kill them.
Aware of this principle, unscrupulous people will emotionalize people to create a condition. A hateful person can stir up a crowd to hate. A victimizer may engineer a physical or social condition that masks something even more nefarious. The newly created bodily or social condition is then what everyone focuses on, and the operator behind the scene goes undetected.
The engineered physical condition is to mask a higher order wrong It is the work of evil or deceptive people seeking to avoid detection.
It is for this reason that Christ did implement and perform some miracles - to create the evidence, true evidence, of God's power and glory. He wished to show that the evil could be undone and that He had the power to undue the works of the devil, and effects of sin and error.
He also instituted sacraments, to use the power of material symbols in a positive way and to take back the power that food and drink had over humankind.
Everything begins to symbolize something for the person in hypnosis or an emotional condition.
The only repair for our hypnotized, emotionalized, traumatized condition is the anti hypnosis of the Light from God which takes away trauma. In this Light we begin to see things for what they are.
Emotion is the translation of thought or external will into action or change.
When we respond to chaos, it alters our mind and body to conform and adapt to chaos.
Today you see chaos and confusion everywhere: in the church, in morals, in the family. There is increasing chaos in nature, as when for example, different organisms are literally mixed together in genetically modified organisms and food.
Chaos and confusion is what evil wants. And if evil exists, and I believe that it does, it thrives in a climate of chaos, mayhem, and confusion. That is why it likes situations such as the chaos of war. It is able to create trauma through those who unwittingly carry out its will.
While we are on the subject of change, please note that belief and doubt are also functions that facilitate or restrain change.
Doubt permits change or breakdown. Belief tends to hold things together as they are.
Doubt is preparatory to change. And when we doubt, then we are also thereby believing in something else--that which makes us doubt the former.
In metaphysical terms, there is basically either belief in what is right and in God; and there is doubting God and standards.
Pride drops dead in the face of truth and needs emotion to defend itself against being realized out of existence.
Emotion is also the mechanism of change and so it translates deleterious doubt into the body and circumstance.
Thus doubt, confusion, breaking up into factions, fear, worry and metabolic confusion occur.
The author if a book about war and its effects on the soul listed some of the things that correlate with PTSD: a loss of identity, depersonalization, moral dilemma, moral pain, self doubt, shame, confusion, and a loss of trust.
Pain is a reminder of something and keeps calling our attention to it. Any recurring traumatic memory has four aspects:
the mental and physical remembrance by association,
the hypnotic recall,
the meaning of it or how we are interpreting it;
and the true meaning -something we are not prepared to see or admit, or something we have misinterpreted.
Recovery from lingering psychosomatic and psycho-spiritual pain is often effected when the person is able to see and let go of the resentment toward the event, as well as toward self and toward the physical symptoms.
Resentment is doubly bad. It both keeps the memory and the pain alive, through reinforcement; and it also is the mechanism of denial whereby the person resents so as not to see what they don't want to see. It is ironic that the very emotion that keeps the pain alive and keeps the memory alive is what the victim uses to try to forget.
It is for this reason that the proper meditation, one which assists a person in becoming centered and objective, is so helpful.
There are lesser truths and a greater Truth.
Often there is some smaller truth that we don't want to see.
The smaller truth might be that you ran like a coward, or copped out. The smaller truth might be that you manipulated someone who was hurting you for some benefit. The smaller truth might be your father did not love you.
These are just a couple of examples. The smaller truth is what the ego does not want to see. And not wanting to see, the ego tries not to see by resenting and suppressing the memory; then by resenting the physical and psychic pain. But the resentment keeps them alive.
When the ego becomes objective, the person sees the lesser truth in the Light of the Greater Truth.
Yes, it may be true that you failed, but in the light of the Greater Truth you see that God does not hate you for failing. You see that you were set up to fail. You see that you have been blaming and hating yourself, when all you had to do was accept God's forgiveness.
In the example of a person who did not want to admit that her father did not love her, upon beginning to meditate, she sees in the greater light of truth that the earthly man who was her dad was not her real father. Her real Father, Who she had never known, is the Creator in Whose Light she now sees this fact.
And she sees that she is known and she is loved, and now the rejection from her earthly father is no longer important. She also sees in the Greater Light from God that her earthly father was also a victim. No one loved him either. She is able to forgive him. Soon the pain goes away and she is free to move forward to a happy and productive life.
If you will, download the meditation exercise. It is free and it may be very helpful.
But after healing has occurred, the pain should go away. It will not go away if healing is incomplete or if there is something that makes a person think that healing has not occurred.
Mostly the physical healing takes place, but not psychological healing. There is a natural process of grieving that takes place when there is a loss. There is a natural process of recovery that involves repair, compensation, renervation, retraining, and restoration of function.
Pain means unforgiveness. Pain means anger. Pain means rage. It may be against others; it may be against the condition; or it may be against self or God.
Physical pain becomes the symbol of psychic pain. And the remembrance brings pain.
Memories become symbols which have the power through hypnosis to bring back the circumstance to mind. This is called the hypnosis of pain.
Now the pain becomes the mechanism of bringing back the trauma scene. Pain is more constant than pleasure, so it is effective at recalling and holding onto a memory that serves the ego.
Every psychic value will create a condition. Every emotion, being a lower , intermediate but corresponding step between psyche and matter or body will contribute to or help to create a material physical circumstance.
Can you see that emotions or physical responses (such as the immune response or allergic responses) can be used by let's say an unscrupulous person with a knowledge of chemistry against a person's best interests. Wrong ideas, wrong suggestions, wrong additives can stimulate the body to over-react. Some believers in voodoo have been known to drop dead if they thought they had been cursed. A body can have an over-reaction to a bee sting, a vaccine, or a chemical and a brain inflammation or anaphylactic shock can disable or kill them.
Aware of this principle, unscrupulous people will emotionalize people to create a condition. A hateful person can stir up a crowd to hate. A victimizer may engineer a physical or social condition that masks something even more nefarious. The newly created bodily or social condition is then what everyone focuses on, and the operator behind the scene goes undetected.
The engineered physical condition is to mask a higher order wrong It is the work of evil or deceptive people seeking to avoid detection.
It is for this reason that Christ did implement and perform some miracles - to create the evidence, true evidence, of God's power and glory. He wished to show that the evil could be undone and that He had the power to undue the works of the devil, and effects of sin and error.
He also instituted sacraments, to use the power of material symbols in a positive way and to take back the power that food and drink had over humankind.
Everything begins to symbolize something for the person in hypnosis or an emotional condition.
The only repair for our hypnotized, emotionalized, traumatized condition is the anti hypnosis of the Light from God which takes away trauma. In this Light we begin to see things for what they are.
Emotion is the translation of thought or external will into action or change.
When we respond to chaos, it alters our mind and body to conform and adapt to chaos.
Today you see chaos and confusion everywhere: in the church, in morals, in the family. There is increasing chaos in nature, as when for example, different organisms are literally mixed together in genetically modified organisms and food.
Chaos and confusion is what evil wants. And if evil exists, and I believe that it does, it thrives in a climate of chaos, mayhem, and confusion. That is why it likes situations such as the chaos of war. It is able to create trauma through those who unwittingly carry out its will.
While we are on the subject of change, please note that belief and doubt are also functions that facilitate or restrain change.
Doubt permits change or breakdown. Belief tends to hold things together as they are.
Doubt is preparatory to change. And when we doubt, then we are also thereby believing in something else--that which makes us doubt the former.
In metaphysical terms, there is basically either belief in what is right and in God; and there is doubting God and standards.
Pride drops dead in the face of truth and needs emotion to defend itself against being realized out of existence.
Emotion is also the mechanism of change and so it translates deleterious doubt into the body and circumstance.
Thus doubt, confusion, breaking up into factions, fear, worry and metabolic confusion occur.
The author if a book about war and its effects on the soul listed some of the things that correlate with PTSD: a loss of identity, depersonalization, moral dilemma, moral pain, self doubt, shame, confusion, and a loss of trust.
Pain is a reminder of something and keeps calling our attention to it. Any recurring traumatic memory has four aspects:
the mental and physical remembrance by association,
the hypnotic recall,
the meaning of it or how we are interpreting it;
and the true meaning -something we are not prepared to see or admit, or something we have misinterpreted.
Recovery from lingering psychosomatic and psycho-spiritual pain is often effected when the person is able to see and let go of the resentment toward the event, as well as toward self and toward the physical symptoms.
Resentment is doubly bad. It both keeps the memory and the pain alive, through reinforcement; and it also is the mechanism of denial whereby the person resents so as not to see what they don't want to see. It is ironic that the very emotion that keeps the pain alive and keeps the memory alive is what the victim uses to try to forget.
It is for this reason that the proper meditation, one which assists a person in becoming centered and objective, is so helpful.
There are lesser truths and a greater Truth.
Often there is some smaller truth that we don't want to see.
The smaller truth might be that you ran like a coward, or copped out. The smaller truth might be that you manipulated someone who was hurting you for some benefit. The smaller truth might be your father did not love you.
These are just a couple of examples. The smaller truth is what the ego does not want to see. And not wanting to see, the ego tries not to see by resenting and suppressing the memory; then by resenting the physical and psychic pain. But the resentment keeps them alive.
When the ego becomes objective, the person sees the lesser truth in the Light of the Greater Truth.
Yes, it may be true that you failed, but in the light of the Greater Truth you see that God does not hate you for failing. You see that you were set up to fail. You see that you have been blaming and hating yourself, when all you had to do was accept God's forgiveness.
In the example of a person who did not want to admit that her father did not love her, upon beginning to meditate, she sees in the greater light of truth that the earthly man who was her dad was not her real father. Her real Father, Who she had never known, is the Creator in Whose Light she now sees this fact.
And she sees that she is known and she is loved, and now the rejection from her earthly father is no longer important. She also sees in the Greater Light from God that her earthly father was also a victim. No one loved him either. She is able to forgive him. Soon the pain goes away and she is free to move forward to a happy and productive life.
If you will, download the meditation exercise. It is free and it may be very helpful.
