I have been working with trauma healing using different modalities for at least 20 years now. One of the experiences I would like to bring to your readers is the relationship between trauma healing, beliefs, and attitudes. When beliefs and attitudes are well planted in the thinking part of the brain, it might hinder the process of trauma healing. What is trauma? In a very simple way, we can define trauma as a body’s reaction to an overwhelming event or a reaction to the imagination of an overwhelming event. During the traumatic/overwhelming reaction or imagined to be so, the nervous system acts as quickly as it can for the survival purposes of the individual, and the mobilized energy for survival is what is trapped In the body creating (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) discomfort. When people are traumatized, the energy trapped in the body can be experienced as a mysterious element taking the energy away from their life. When we accompany them in the process of healing trauma and the trapped energy is liberated, the feeling of wellness and freedom again can bring in a new meaning that one has been searching for. However, when such energy is not liberated, it can eventually turn into a physical illness, emotionally dysfunctional, and spiritual bypass. Also, based on the cultural, religion, and upbringing of the individual the belief system is integrated into what a person might be feeling. For example, I feel this way because I did something I was not supposed to do. Or, I am feeling this way because I am a bad person. Also, individual attitudes that are generated from the cortical brain could be incorporated here and the traumatic meaning is formed. For example, I will not get better from these strange feelings because “I am a bad person and I deserve what is happening to me”. During the process of healing trauma, we encourage our clients to pay more attention to the body so that they can get in touch with the powerful energy trapped in the body and liberate it. Amazingly when this energy is liberated the belief system begins to melt and the attitude is softened. A new meaning of life-giving such as now I understand that this traumatic event had happened to me so that I can let go of this limiting belief is implanted and the healing begins to happen.

Trauma healing – Beliefs & attitudes