Archive for February, 2010
« Previous EntriesAwareness during Coma and Anesthesia
Friday, February 26th, 2010The rich recollections of a young child’s experience recovering from an automobile accident contradict the naive assumptions about coma and anesthesia that prevail in technologically sophisticated medicine. We might provide more compassionate support for our fellow beings as they pass through illnesses, accidents, surgical operations and other crises if we assumed that they were absorbing […]
Traumatic Memories
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Traumatic memories have been excluded from conscious awareness because the pain associated with the situation was overwhelming.
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Paying Attention to Details of Traumatic Experiences
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Accidental injury and hospitalization can cause deep psychological scarring, especially in young children. Karmic Therapy reveals unique specificity in each instance. Often it is the child’s reactions to certain key details of the experience, which may seem peripheral to us at first glance, that leave a lasting wound. These details cannot be predicted from a […]
Frozen Karma
Monday, February 22nd, 2010“Frozen karma” refers to a repeating pattern of pain and tension locked into the body that gets activated by a traumatic situation.
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Healing Dissociative Splits
Monday, February 22nd, 2010A conscious act of the will is required to undo the original choice to escape into dissociation. The mind must re-engage with the body, finally allowing the pain and fear held there to be experienced, expressed and released. This is not so easy to accomplish after many years living in fear of the unknown hurts […]
Harmonious Understanding
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Suffering only means that there are more lessons to learn, a more harmonious understanding and a more integrated life yet to attain.
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Importance of Facing Disowned Memories
Thursday, February 18th, 2010In order to heal ourselves and embody our wholeness, it is important to undo dissociation and face disowned experiences. In Karmic Therapy, patients are repeatedly encouraged to bring conscious awareness back into the body at the moment just before dissociation occurred and allow what was unbearable at that time to be felt and expressed, now […]
Unrealistic Expectations
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Continued suffering indicates we are still making false assumptions about reality that lead us to hold onto unrealistic expectations.
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Dissociation and Escapism
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Dissociation reinforces the mind-body split that is already deeply embedded in our language and culture. Those of us who have leaned heavily on dissociation to manage trauma may be prone to use other forms of escapism, such as drugs and intoxicants, another preoccupation of our culture. Dissociative splitting also gives rise to a characteristic form […]
Our Bodies after Spirit Withdraws
Friday, February 12th, 2010Whatever happens to our bodies while spiritual awareness is withdrawn and remains separate, a foreign object, like a stone in our shoe that we do not perceive as part of us. Even after we mature and have the inner resources to integrate it, a dissociated experience continues to be disowned, walled off from awareness; but […]
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