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Types of trauma and responses to trauma: ‘Fixing’ as ‘the fifth f … a new thought
These days, talking about the responses to trauma triggers is household language. With public figures like Gabor Mate also becoming household names, there’s a much greater understanding and literacy about our tenderness and vulnerability as human beings. There is much more awareness of the range of experience; from people who are constitutionally highly sensitive, and whose nervous systems and psychology are acutely affected by stimulus that others with ‘thicker skins’ may not even notice; to the effects of learned patterns of behaviour and defended-ness, such as being hyper-vigilant, which is something that can happen whether people are generally highly sensitive or not.Read more...
Why being fixed isn’t the answer: crisis and uncertainty as opportunities for something new
Resources for living ... recommended fiction books, mini-serieses and movies (irregularly updated)
In navigating this very complex, rich - and often terrifying - journey of being human, I've found great help and relief, and even joy and awe, in stories that somehow give meaning to the struggle and pain and hope and delight of this crazy journey of life on earth. Or that help understand the malaise inherent in the egoic structure. (Read more...
Managing feeling down
Many people think of transpersonal psychology as wholistic, which it is, yet fundamentally its basis is actually state change. By accessing states other than our ordinary waking state, we learn, and gain resources to help us live this life. This can be listening to music, taking a walk, or being affected by a moving stiry. Our mood and physiological state literally changes. Dreams are another example.Read more...
