I didn’t want post traumatic stress, so I gave myself post traumatic growth instead. Here’s how:
Asking quality questions like: “what can I learn from this experience?” Questions asked with a curious tone point the brain towards how the experience was beneficial in terms of learning and growth.
Rather than victimise myself by thinking something happened TO me, I considered how it was FOR me. A quality question I asked myself is “How has this been valuable for me?”
Allowing myself to feel how I feel. No matter what feelings arise in me, I welcome them all and feel them fully until they have dissipated entirely. This is an ongoing process.
Looking for the love. Looking for the love is my way of saying, “What can I appreciate here?” We will always find something to be grateful for if we are earnest and sincere in looking.
Sharing honestly. I didn’t hide my experience of the situation. I shared about it publicly relatively quickly after it occurred.
After hearing friends recommend The Body Magician for a while, the most recent time Joyce Ong mentioned Bruce Scott‘s name, my body gave a little nod of encouragement so I booked a session with him for yesterday evening.
We take for granted that which we are accustomed to – in other words, our privilege. If we’re used to walking and moving about the world pain-free, we think that’s normal.
I’ve been observing how often I hear the term “beautiful soul” and I’ve been reflecting on that this morning. I reckon we all have a beautiful soul. Seriously, have you ever met anyone that didn’t? It’s our human psyches that can mask it (through judgement), so we can’t always perceive it.