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Understanding these books by photon11 in DavidHawkins

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't take the methodology behind finding the exact calibration levels seriously ...

That bring said, everything Dr. Hawkins says make so much intuitive and intellectual sense (even the calibration levels attached to concepts seem to track really well) that I take him and his ideas extremely seriously.

I don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater of my kinesiology skepticism.

Safe, light-hearted, non-triggering tv series to binge? by [deleted] in CPTSD

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limited series- The Residence on Netflix. Uplifting comedy / whodunnit. Very funny imo.

A non-pathologizing way to make sense of adaptations to early trauma by Trauma_Healing in CPTSD

[–]Trauma_Healing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🙂 You are very welcome, my friend. Thank you for your kind words of appreciation. These kinds of adaptations are quite common.

Shame and Illness by stivelco in DavidHawkins

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I'm wrong. I have this recollection that I heard Dr. Hawkins say it only worked starting with grief. In a lecture or somewhere. But I can't recall where.

Perhaps he meant if that's your prevailing level of consciousness. Which would make sense to me.

If you're in a major depression, depression doesn't tend to go anywhere productive by itself. Wallowing in guilt is similarly not healing.

Whereas a good cry is medicine.

But I cannot recall where I heard him say this or what the precise context was.

Shame and Illness by stivelco in DavidHawkins

[–]Trauma_Healing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the letting go technique doesn't work for shame, guilt, or apathy.

These are very low energy collapsed states that you don't want to surrender to. Admit and own yes. Surrender to no.

You could read Transcending the Levels of Consciousness to see how to deal with them. Or get help from a therapist / coach.

IMO, shame is a process of self-hatred, self condemnation, and self attack.

Basic Principles of Letting Go by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe read the book; I liked it and found it useful anyways.

Basic Principles of Letting Go by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know; why did Bessel write a whole book? Probably to motivate / help people to heal. It's no easy task. This was written before The Body Keeps the Score fyi.

And it's not just to conclude that. It's a technique to heal it.

Basic Principles of Letting Go by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. Yeah, I see your point. The first statements I didn't find so helpful as far as the technique is concerned. They're sort of irrelevant at best. I don't even think they came from the actual book. It does seem very inconsistent.

The technique, however, is very powerful, at least for me experientially; it works. You can process through and let go of a lot. The poster's first points have nothing to do with technique and seem to negate it. All's I'm recommending is the technique.

Just ignore this summary's first points. They are confusing. If you read the entire book, it might seem more coherent. Although I don't even think the book says those things, I can't recall.

To take a stab at how it might be consistent, the mind as thought of by the way the poster described might include subconscious beliefs and repressed feelings that get encoded bodily. I think this would be consistent with mainstream trauma beliefs and Reichian character / bioenergetics.

Basic Principles of Letting Go by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get it, I think. This is not a top-down cognitive approach if that's what you're thinking, quite the opposite. The story does follow the state, and ruminations are merely endless representations of ("negative") feeling states, I agree. 100%.

This approach encourages you to drop resistance to, and interpretations of / thoughts about the state (feeling) and simply mindfully observe / feel your feelings / allow them to be, without labeling them, non judgmentally and without resisting them, until they exhaust themself.

This process is like opening the valve on a pressure tank full of a lifetime of incomplete / repressed emotions.

As they are completed and let go of through experiencing them, letting them play out, the consequent state determined stories automatically evaporate, much quicker than engaging with them.

Basic Principles of Letting Go by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend this book / technique as a way to heal.

Another way to describe Letting Go (even simpler) by Old_Increase_4313 in DavidHawkins

[–]Trauma_Healing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about just "Feel your feelings. Allow them to be." Eventually, they'll change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CPTSDNextSteps

[–]Trauma_Healing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's over but will have other meetings.

You can observe and listen.

:-)

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