I'm proud to say Rick Hanson shared this last night on his Buddha's Brain Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/BuddhasBrain?fref=ts)
My favorite color thinking is black and white.
And mindfulness is all rainbow complex.
I’m a resistant recruit to this be here now stuff.
It feels so impossible at times when the past is a race car endlessly looping in my nervous system.
Learning to get out of survival mode is like driving through life in reverse. The roads are the same but the concentration required is brutal. Especially when the scenery is not tropical beach but the destroyed aftermath of disaster.
It’s not the driving that’s hard – it’s paying attention.
I was hurt, wounded and traumatized in childhood – like countless others. It wasn’t a bad day in a rough year but a way of life. It wasn’t violent episodes on two holidays.
I don’t say that for pity but to explain why the impact is lasting.
Developmental trauma is muggy neglect that permeates the house and family and makes breathing, sleeping and childhood sticky and difficult.
Read More at: http://healwritenow.com/mindfu...mind-full-of-trauma/
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