Can We Heal Our Past Trauma Through Positive Focus?
Someone posed a question about whether it's helpful to "re-live the past". There is a lot of focus these days on positive thinking and manifesting what we focus on. I am a firm believer in both. There is an idea, a fear, that if we allow ourselves to focus on trauma in our past, we will re-create more trauma in our present and future. This fear is based in truth. We don't want to focus on our past and create more of the same in our lives. However, many of us have experienced past traumatic events that left emotional (and sometimes physical) wounds. We can't move forward by dwelling on the trauma of the past, but our bodies have a way of storing anything that's too much to process at one time for a later time when we are better equipped. When these past traumatic events remain unprocessed within our mental, physical and emotional being, t hese unheard, unaddressed, unhealed issues lead to ugly uprisings and tension in our relationships, continuation of vi