Parinama

  It is as if the instinctual energy comes to a point of cross-over (perhaps at the diaphragm) as it moves through its own skin and then energy of another frequency manifests as it moves through the skin. Marion Woodman   Inspired by Healing Trauma by Peter Levine.   Trauma is energy that is locked in the body.   An inciting event where we were harmed, violated, or abandoned automatically triggers a cascade of protective reactions starting in the brain and flowing into the body to keep us safe.   There might be a surge of adrenaline so we can run or shock to shut things down, so we keep us still. Our brain instantaneously creates these bodily conditions to keep us alive.   Trauma develops when the energy webs from the inciting events get stuck in our tissues, blood, bones, and organs rather than flowing out into discharge. The body will naturally try to release them.   But because these energy surges kept us safe it can ...

  The antidote to loneliness is solitude.   … the highest and most decisive experience of all, … is to be alone with one’s own self, or whatever else one chooses to call the objectivity of the psyche. We must be alone if we are to find out what it is that supports us when we can no longer support ourselves. Only this experience can give us an indestructible foundation. Carl Jung   A death, a betrayal, and a child’s illness plunged me into a dark winter period of life. None of the usual things, people, or activities offered solace.   For many months, I felt as if I were falling, physically falling, with that drop in the stomach churn one gets when an elevator descends too rapidly.   Because these losses and their unmooring was so extreme, none of the usual things offered solace.   The emptiness was too large to fill with work, friends, lovers, naps, wine or ice-cream.   The familiar world swirled around me, but I was no longe...