Healing Trauma Though Creative Thought
As we continue our journey into self love, we eventually find that in order to truly transform our life into the one we envision with hope, it will at some point become necessary that we be completely consumed in our dedication toward manifesting that reality. In this significant stage of the journey, is where we enter a “hibernative state” of the life we once lived. That is, putting to rest our physical reality to focus obsessively toward the co-creation of our spiritual reality. This is both the cacoon of self-transformation, and the seed planted in the journey which helps us to walk true into the manifestation of a new life.
Perception is Everything
This part of the journey is especially important in the concern of dealing with mental health. What we typically consider mental illness in modern American culture, is on the other hand said to be the,”birth of a healer,” in other parts of the world. And of course, our very perception of the condition will affect our approach toward dealing with the condition entirely. Where medication and much time spent with a psych therapist would be the go to treatment here in America, a more spiritual approach to treatment would be found in other cultures of the world. In the Dagara culture of West Africa for example, it is said that such situations as mental health treatment require that we first separate the person’s energy from that which is foreign energy. In this the person’s aura is then cleared through what is said to be a spirit “sweep”.
When one’s energy field is cleared, it is said that they are then no longer bombarded with that flood of traumatic thoughts disturbing the mind. At this point, the person is then able to align with the spirit energy manifesting itself from “the other world”, thus giving birth to a healer.
What We Learn in Healing Our Trauma
In the later case of treating mental health, we can see what is called a “sweep” as that hibernative state. It’s in which certain aspects of our physical reality are put to rest. In doing this, the treatment process then moves us toward aligning with spirit. It is the same case with the co-creation of our spiritual reality and walking into a new life. Yet what is it to concentrate on walking true? It is to seek along the journey all things that both lengthen tranquility and maintain healthy conscience toward the manifest of new life. To put to death our physical disturbances and replace them with creative expression of that manifesting force which drives us to be more. In doing this, as that new life finally appears in the journey, it appears renewed in knowledge of truth in which it came into being. With this in mind, we should strive to maintain a loving and kind reflection, continuing in the journey with meekness and patience in all that we do. In this we may find good grace in the way that we go, and divine peace with in our hearts.
Although the spiritual “sweeping” is unlikely to become the standard in treating mental illness here in America any time soon, I do believe a more spiritual approach is worth exploring at least. Especially as medical research turns toward holistic approach. Yet in the case of dealing with past traumas along the journey, we can only take what is given us in this life and either grow from it, or allow it to consume us with fear continually. I’ve found that when the mind, heart, soul, and even a little ego is aligned to its best ability with spirit, our fears become less as we walk in our truth. And although we may not be able to calm every storm, we can learn to at least calm the self, as the storm passes by. In this do we also find peace.