Is
it possible to heal trauma fully? Yes!
Mani:
Hi! I wanted to share this channel on youtube, she has some great
videos for people who has trauma from childhood/teenage years. It's
always good hearing someone talk about something they themselves have
been through/worked through, and so has solid advice. Be it trauma in
the form of neglect, ongoing stress over years, episodes at school,
illness etc. She speaks mostly from a psychological and physiological
perspective, and not so much spiritual, but it still has been super
helpful. For the longest time, as I wrote many times in my log thread
here in the group, I genuinely thought I had autism or some other
mental/neurological duagnosis. ? Turned out it was childhood traumas,
which I am working through with the wonderful practices Baba has
taught us.
Now she says in one of her videos that childhood
trauma can never fully 100% heal, which I don't think is true, but
that just seems to be the general perception for mental health, that
it is difficult or impossible to fully heal.
Baba: I never
bought that you'd be autistic. Misdiagnoses have been a nuisance in
your family...
Mani: Yeah, I am so glad I didn’t settle
for that diagnosis and know what the cause is now. It makes all the
difference. My sister also got a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder,
but it turned out to be PTSD from childhood and of being failed by
the medical community.
I am so glad to know now about the subtle
bodies and how tantra can heal...
Baba: We had a discussion
with Amrita Uma (who is a psychologist) at the recent retreat about
the common perception about the heal-ability of trauma among
professionals of psychology. Gabor Mate who is a very influential
trauma specialist said what I've heard from a number of others (the
ones I've listened to) that "you can learn to live with trauma
but you can't (fully) heal it". But Uma enlightened me by saying
that that is not a prevalent opinion, that some psychologists and
psychoterapists have the opposite view, that it is possible to heal
it fully.
Even without the methods to heal it fully I find
it very problematic and disempowering to say to patients that it
can't be healed. We all probably know someone with trauma or some
other illness who's been said that they can't heal and that they just
have to suffer with it for the rest of their lives. Of course if we
are talking about tetraplegia it is a different matter but my point
is that just like in dharma you have teachers who give really poor,
insufficient and actually completely wrong instructions backed up by
a lineage, the same happens in medicine where doctors go too far in
their statements and diagnoses.
Having worked my a*s off
with my own trauma with very specific energetic practices, I am
highly doubtful if it is even possible to become fully aware of one's
early trauma by psychological means (that are basically
sutric/non-tantric) and consequentially if psychology really even
understands what full healing of trauma means. That might sound like
a very arrogant thing to say and I am happy to be told/proven
otherwise but having seen the regular shallowness of non-tantric
methods I am doubtful, though really hope that there'd be tons of
efficient methods and techniques out there available to humanity. But
even for those few who have the priviledge to live in wealthy
circumstances and have the access to psychotherapy, that extremely
few in the world have, the actual results don't look too good, even
after years of regular therapy. Little benefit is much better than no
benefit at all but just like in dharma, it's just not good
enough.
Childhood trauma being misdiagnosed as bipolar or
as a million other things doesn't surprise me at all, though it is of
course quite tragic. The understanding of trauma and how thoroughly
it affects people is very poor among medical professionals from what
I know.
All people should go back to their religions to find
answers to these problems. Not the dogmatic belief rubbish but the
practices; prayers, chanting, meditation, service, contemplation and
above all to receive the grace that heals. You know, being healed by
the spirit that dwells in all of us is not a fairytale, it is
real.
Linking a short documentary from Finnish tv (swedish
with finnish subtitles) from 2019 that testifies about the power of
prayer. It's very impressive, especially the testimony given by the
doctor. https://areena.yle.fi/1-4598175
