What To Do After Trauma Strikes

What To Do After Trauma Strikes

This past weekend, I had something traumatic happen to me. Without going into detail, it has given me immense trauma since it happened. But thankfully, I’m trained in what to do with this. I knew what to do logistically, but I had never had something happen to me where I could apply it. This was the first time that I was able to take this tool and utilize it and experience calmness immediately after implementing it. Here’s what I did:

When facing trauma, you don’t want to avoid it. You have to process through it. The best way to do that FOR ME, is through meditation. I put on a meditation that I selected that I knew would work for this situation. It walked me through how to distance myself from my thoughts and emotions that the situation has triggered. (I’m going to create my own meditation that does just this and send it out next week. So be on the lookout for that.)

First, you must get quiet. That’s a requirement. You have to get quiet enough that you can start to see what you’re thinking and feeling, not be wrapped up in it so much you can’t distance yourself from it. Next, imagine that there is a movie screen behind your forehead. Imagine that every thought, every emotion that comes up displays itself on the movie screen. This starts to distance your thoughts and emotions from the self. As thoughts come up, picture them on the movie screen and let them play out. Then, when it’s done playing out, dismiss it. Tell your brain that you are no longer going to attach yourself to this thought. Same thing with emotions, if they come up, let them play out and then dismiss them. Every time that these thoughts and emotions come up throughout the day, dismiss it. Tell yourself you’re no longer thinking that way. It takes time, but the more you do this, the more you realize that you are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions. Thoughts and emotions RUN THROUGH YOU, they ARE NOT YOU.

Repeat the following to yourself: “Look at the thoughts, look at the emotions. They are not me, they run through me.” Repeat this as much as you need to. You will start to understand that thoughts and emotions use your body and mind to run through you, but they aren’t a representation of who you are.

This was really helpful for me and it was able to bring my calmness level back down to view the trauma as it is: thoughts and emotions from deep inside me. These are not who I am, they just run through me.

Hope this helps…

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