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