| When it happens that the heart, mind, and | | | | outgrowth of the emotional, for the powerful |
| body become overloaded with negative | | | | emotional resonance of PTSD produces a |
| impressions concerning events that they are | | | | separation of the lower emotional body from |
| subject to while in a state of helplessness | | | | the higher, so that an infusion of light from |
| or necessary conformity to the circumstances | | | | the higher Self which might otherwise |
| at hand, then conditions are ripe for the | | | | transform the situation and make it more |
| inner disorder that has come to be known as | | | | bearable, becomes difficult or impossible. |
| 'post traumatic stress disorder' (PTSD). PTSD | | | | For many who experience traumatic situations, |
| is not primarily a disorder of the mind, | | | | the experience, in retrospect, is one in |
| though it may appear as such, but rather a | | | | which the individual does not know how they |
| disorder of the heart that no longer feels | | | | got through it, feeling that something |
| capable of dealing with the helplessness that | | | | unknown took over that made survival |
| it has had no way of preventing. This | | | | possible. This 'something' is often a |
| helplessness, while in a state of moderate | | | | transfusion of spiritual energy from the |
| intensity, can produce a numbing of all the | | | | higher energy bodies into the heart center so |
| emotions of heart and body so that one can | | | | that more capacity exists to deal with the |
| live through the experience. But when | | | | present circumstances. Such a transfusion of |
| conditions change and the external situation | | | | light occurs in many instances of difficulty |
| is no longer present or no longer as | | | | for individuals, for each soul who is |
| stressful, or, when numbing is no longer | | | | severely challenged in life is being helped |
| effective, then the release of what has been | | | | from the soul level of their being as well as |
| encapsulated can occur without any warning, | | | | by other beings of light who may be |
| and suddenly, what was a successful way of | | | | assisting. Nevertheless, where the heart has |
| coping with distress, becomes unsuccessful. | | | | become enveloped with its own pattern of |
| PTSD is not a disease of the body. Nor is it | | | | resonance with energies of terror, despair, |
| a disease of the mind. Rather, it is a | | | | confusion, anger or helplessness, it can |
| symptom of the limitation of a heart that has | | | | happen that the higher bodies cannot gain |
| been stretched to its limit in order to | | | | access to the level of the physical self in |
| regulate the emotions of fear, confusion, | | | | order to further self-healing. As a result, |
| rage, and helplessness brought about by a | | | | the physical self who experiences the results |
| circumstance or circumstances that it could | | | | of trauma can come to feel that there is no |
| not prevent. Under normal conditions, the | | | | way to relieve it. There are many forms of |
| heart has a way of taking instruction from | | | | treatment that have been refined, today, for |
| the mind so that it receives guidelines about | | | | post traumatic stress disorder, and also many |
| what to believe about such circumstances and | | | | who are in need of this help. The spiritual |
| how to hold them in a way that gives them | | | | incorporation of greater light into the body |
| believability and credibility. But under the | | | | and heart would add to these, the possibility |
| circumstance of severe and ongoing trauma or | | | | for creating a bridge of light and healing so |
| of a single traumatic incident of great | | | | that the woundedness of the heart could be |
| intensity, the heart no longer believes that | | | | held in a different energy than the one it is |
| there is any explanation that is credible for | | | | presently resonating with. This practice of |
| what it is feeling or perceiving, and no | | | | alignment with the higher levels of oneself, |
| longer knows how it will survive the need to | | | | carried out regularly, can serve the purposes |
| continue enduring what cannot be explained. | | | | of healing, enabling many more to find their |
| This is a perception of the heart rather than | | | | way back from traumatic situations than can |
| the mind, for the mind may hold explanations, | | | | occur at the present time. It is also true |
| but these do not appear to make a difference | | | | that in a future in which such separation of |
| to the heart. Often, one who has experienced | | | | energy bodies might take place, there would |
| severe trauma - whether on a battlefield, in | | | | be enough transmitted light so that the |
| a violent or cruel relationship, as a victim | | | | seamless reconstruction of the pathways |
| of sudden brutality, terror, or horror, or, | | | | between upper and lower bodies could take |
| as a witness of severe violence done to | | | | place as a normal part of the maintenance |
| others - first becomes numb to these | | | | processes of the entire spiritual-physical |
| circumstances as a way of turning down the | | | | being. For now, both the current ways of |
| volume of nervous system overload that is a | | | | addressing PTSD and the incorporation of |
| result of the situation. However, when | | | | light from the spiritual dimension are |
| numbing is not possible, either because the | | | | effective means of addressing the healing |
| situation continues without let-up at the | | | | needs of PTSD, the latter by increasing the |
| same high level of intensity and the body's | | | | joining of the physical self with the |
| fear responses are continuously activated, | | | | self-of-light so that a new energy can enter |
| or, because the sense of disbelief and shock | | | | the picture and alter the disabling |
| have already taken hold, and one has already | | | | conditions from within. Until such time as |
| begun to feel that nothing makes sense, | | | | changes on the world scene make this disorder |
| symptoms of PTSD can begin to be observed. | | | | a thing of the past, 'post traumatic stress |
| The violence and horror that are the general | | | | disorder' will best be viewed as a |
| precursors to PTSD can occur in many forms. | | | | spiritual-emotional disorder related to the |
| They can occur through one's own being the | | | | time we are in, with dire consequences for |
| subject of cruelty, abuse, or horror, or they | | | | the many who are suffering greatly from its |
| can occur through witnessing someone else or | | | | effects. |
| a group of others in this role. The heart, | | | | |
| having come to the end of its capacity to | | | | Julie Redstone is a teacher, writer, and |
| tolerate the pain of its own experience, | | | | founder of Light Omega, a center for |
| begins to look for ways to compensate for the | | | | spiritual teaching and healing whose purpose |
| amount of distress it is feeling so that its | | | | is to create an understanding of the sacred |
| very survival can continue. The spiritual | | | | transition into light that the earth is |
| context in which PTSD develops is an | | | | presently going through. |