four noble truths
i often wonder how does trauma gets into the body and causes such a variety of symptoms, unique to each individual. if you are like me, and like diving deep into the human psyche, you might still wonder does it ever end, though you know very well that it does not. there are a lot of parts within us that we need to connect to, care for, nurture, and simply get to know for the first time ever. experience them, feel them, give them a voice, the movement, the chance. a lot, and they are all oh, so beautiful and in so much need of our intention, that often feels like full time job with hours of overtime. until your body says, i need break.
i talk about this a lot, and how one can capacity to grow the same capacity to handle so much more. and i ask, but why not? isn’t exactly the point? to feel it, to experience it, to honor it, to realize it, to learn in the end how to enjoy overall process, overall life? and with comes a lot my friend, a lot. but why not?
so i ask: if i know that there already is so much to work on, how do i know that i am not creating even more work, rather having a control to plot stop point for “no more trauma creation”. and i always come back to the same answer: without more, there would be way less of us. there will be no us so evolved as today. without always stretching for more, there will be no concept of evolution and growth. more means growth. more means evolution. and evolution is our naturalness and so it is obligation and responsibility too.
in peter levines book “healing trauma”, four noble truths that buddha thought his disciples, are explained as:
suffering is part of human condition. If we simply try to avoid confronting painful experiences, there is no way to begin the healing process. in fact, this denial creates the very conditions that promote and prolong unnecessary suffering.
We must discover why we are suffering. we must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. we often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. but whatever initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.
Suffering can be transformed and healed. for those of us who have been traumatized, this can be a monumental leap of faith, but we can recover from trauma, indeed.
Once you have identified the cause of your suffering, you must find an appropriate path for it.
and this is what i dedicated years of my life learning and researching. what is th epath out of suffering. and i learned that there is always a way.
i love you. i love me. and this is where we start.
