Acknowledging your trauma is NOT step one - Seeing beyond the story is!

Imagine life as a game. You’ve been so deep in it, so involved, that you forgot you were the one holding the controller. You think you’re the character, the person who’s hurt, scared, trying to fix things. But you’re actually the one playing this amazing game So the first step isn’t to heal the character or fix the story. The first step is to remember you’re not the character. You’re the awareness, behind it. The one seeing, feeling, noticing it all. Once you realize that, everything changes. The game doesn’t disappear, but your relationship to it does. You don't gain control. You let go of the control. And just play! For your convenience I've scripted out all that was said in my video, and divided it into 5 chapters: **Chapter 1: The Confusion Around Healing Advice** Just jumped on Facebook for a little bit and saw all this conflicting supposedly helpful videos and posts about acknowledging your trauma as step one. Something happened to you in your childhood and therefore you stopped trusting yourself and how to become authentic again. Of course, there's merit to it. There's truth to it. But acknowledging your trauma is NOT step one. **Chapter 2: Realizing You Are Not the Person** If you don't realize first, that you are not the person, you are the one aware of the person. You are the one aware of your thinking, your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your physical body, all other bodies, your life. So imagine that you are looking at this video but you're looking through a lens. It's not you, your physical body, that is looking — it is YOU behind the lens looking through it. YOU notice the difference? It might be confusing at first because the mind says, "Yeah, but..." **Chapter 3: Why Acknowledging Trauma Isn’t Step One** So why is acknowledging trauma not the first step? Because if you look from the you that you identify with, then it's basically trauma saying, “Yeah, I'm traumatized,” and you know the saying: *the one who created the problem cannot solve it.* So YOU are not traumatized — your person is. Yeah, definitely traumatized. Definitely went through life and did not have the tools to properly deal with it. Either you were too young or your environment was just too toxic. So all you could do is what they call the reptilian or lizard brain response — fight, flight, or freeze. **Chapter 4: Allowing Everything to Be** So instead of running away, hiding, freezing, doing nothing, or fighting — “I need to fight this, I need to fix this” — start by allowing everything to be just as it is. No attachments. You don't need to fix this. You don't need to fix anything. What you're feeling is not wrong and it's not good either. What you're feeling is just what you sense, notice, realize that these are feelings from a neutral observer perspective. You are just aware of it all. **Chapter 5: The Shift in Perspective** And of course, the mind will kick in and say, "Yeah, but that doesn't change a thing." Yes, it does. It changes everything. It changes the whole freaking game. So acknowledging your trauma is not step one. It might be step two. But first you need to get out of the person. Realize you are not the person. Realize you are in a game, playing the game. And the one who is in the game, playing the game — yeah, he might actually be okay with it all. There's nothing really happening. You're not going to die. You're not going to vanish. Of course, you might be afraid of the consequences of doing this because it might mean that you're going to lose your mind, but actually you're going to accept and integrate the mind.


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