When ever we experience hurt of any kind, we often find it hard to make meaning out of the mess and that critical state of meaninglessness if not process can keep your bodies and minds in a continual state of high alertness or what we call in the nervous system health community hyper vigilance. its a feeling of stuck ness that comes with a slue of symptoms that most do not see the correlation.
these symptoms may look like.
The A type/ over worker personalty
The inability to sleep well
Anti Social Behavior
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
ADD or ADHD
Along with other auto immune conditions.
While there is genetic influence there is also a strong link between childhood adversity and chronic disease. Our Imaginative Power works in reverse due to Trauma where we imagine the worst case scenario where our trust in reality becomes broken.
Creativity Opens the Door for our feelings to be witness and it is through that witnessing that Attention is given and where we place our attention is where energy flows and where loving energy flows is where wounds begin to heal.
The Power of our minds, reflects the power of the brushes, the pens our our entire body to turn what once hurt you into a story that is beautiful and it is that imaginative expressive archetype of the inner child.
If you read the book healing trauma by Dr. Peter Levine you will discover insights about healing that becomes only obvious when you see these connections.
You see that children naturally know how to process their grief but as we become adults we have a harder time doing so because of social and cultural conditioning that becomes deeply hard wired within us.
Not allowing Dark emotions to be process or heard.
Not allowing tears to flow
Bypassing feelings with alcohol or weed
Misunderstandings around mental health
Not scheduling time for stillness
Spiritual Bypassing.
The Creative act is the gateway to healing weather it is poetry, pottery, painting, planing, playing or planting. These are all creatives acts that if used properly can bring the nervous system into feelings of resolve.
resolve happens when we ask the question with our actions.
" What would it take for me to create peace?" and then allowing the UNNAMABLE to answer in and through the moments after.
If you ve made it this far, thank you for your interest in self exploration.
we awakening our imaginative powers by recovering our inner child, the parts of us that gets shoved in the dark for the sake of survival.
I love going deep into these subjects.
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or my writer page @thee.marioholder
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