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19th September 2017 05:31
Link to Post #61
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Re: Cathy O'Brien: The Tranceformation of America
I suggest, very highly, listening to the 4th video on the above site:
http://trance-formation.com/video/
Cathy's viewpoint on the emotional programming and trauma, beyond those she suffered, that are inflicted upon everyone exposed to the lies and manipulation of the media, entertainment (en-train-ment) and thru much of education itself, seems obvious to those of us who experienced trauma in a clinical setting. When PTSD is studied, even at a cursory level, it is easy to see how the insights in her books will help most anyone else also. Our reactions to abuse and lies often limits our ability to enjoy life and to progress beyond the barriers we have programmed into ourselves as natural, defensive reactions.
When I contacted Cathy some years ago about having had difficult childhood experiences at one of the institutions she wrote a chapter about, she was cautious in giving advice. She shared that I had to be aware of triggers when going deeper into any healing process. This gave me the time to go about this very, very long process, one I had already dealt with for years, differently than many others who didn't get thru it well, or not at all.
I have always found that handwriting out the depth of trauma has been my best therapy, as nothing else made any progress or revealed any understanding to me. However, typing the same info on this computer is not the same thing. I also find that once the healing and understanding have occurred from within it does help to burn the writing, sending it away with a positive thought, moving on.
In this 4th video Cathy notes something that I had disliked and rejected in taking my son to any 12 step program, ACA-adult children of alcoholics, after his mother died from her alcohol abuse (hospital entry, then staff neglect and ignorant procedure killing her). As my son and I have no addictions and are both natural born healers, it may have been easier for us to see thru those things that seemed to get us and those in the groups nowhere.
Group talking sessions as ptsd therapy, or substance abuse therapy, often further imbed the trauma, activating triggers that reinforce the behavior, most often as a victim. I do understand that for some the act of being heard is therapy that works to a degree in healing, but there are dangers in the words from others, the expressions of others that often hold that expression, that right to be heard, within those rooms alone. Ultimately, in the real world, our healing has to find life beyond the entirety of the subject itself.
I saw and felt no healing in those sessions, but I did see the exclusion of the original emphasis of the founder of AA upon nutrition and vitamin therapy, B3, niacinamide or inositol hexaniacinate and vitamin C.
I do see great value in listening to the common sense and experience backed approach that Cathy and Mark share. Mark, as few humans do, still lives a great life in the healing he and Cathy wrote about in their books.
May you too stand up to the abuse you have gone thru, remembering that unwarranted attacks upon you for doing your best to end abuse are a confirmation of the correctness of your actions.
Right Now and Always You have a right to live joyfully.
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19th September 2017 11:43
Link to Post #62