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Trauma Influences Imagination Escapism
In other instances, instead of guilt, shame & regret, we seek to escape from a reality that we feel is too much to bear. We begin to fantasize on the what ifs, & explore those mythical timelines in our imagination. Slowly, we begin to yearn more for the fantasy as it temporarily eases our stress, but it also removes us from the present & in turn impede our ability to impact it for the better.
Fantasizing may seem harmless at first but it is teaching the mind to interact with the unreal parts of your experience. The escape isn't just from the pain, but also a vacancy from your driver's seat.
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Trauma & The Impact On The Imagination
It is easy to acknowledge the direct impacts of trauma but some of its more life altering impacts are what it has on the mind.
In addition to the impact from the direct interaction, the imagination is not only stunted but also becomes a place where you relive the origin of the trauma, over ...
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Revived Imagination
The imagination is meant to be inspired, to see possibilities by appreciating what is available to it. While it is no simple task to see the good in everything, the imagination powers the image of the reality you will perceive. Therefore it is not the image of the past nor the image of the prese...
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Hope Is The Mind Tiller
The imagination powers the way you see the past, present and future. The image of the future is hope. Hope is built by what you feed it today.
The best food for hope is knowledge, understanding and faith. Learning new things helps us broaden our horizon. Understanding things helps broade...
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Trauma Hijacks The Imagination
The imagination is the mind's eye: how we perceive & even interact with intangibles in the cosmos.
When we experience trauma, the imagination relives the moment over & over, searching for ways to avoid the experience in the future or overcome it. With every replay of that moment, we experie...
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Inspiration Vs Fantasizing
Inspiration & fantasies may seem like the same but are vastly different. The imagination intakes both similarly. But one is birthed from the body's fight or flight system & the other catalyzed by an appreciation of something, even in the bad.
Fantasizing is an effort of escapism from realit...
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Snuffed Imagination
When the trauma overwhelms the mind, when the replays become suffocating, when the inspiration no longer comes, the imagination chooses numbness. This coping mechanism shuts down the ability to perceive to spare ourselves the trauma. This numbness while copes in one way, icreates a hopelessness a...
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People die because of a lack of knowledge. Understanding makes the blind see. Wisdom is the principle thing
By understanding how trauma fully impacts us, we can become more self aware and find the capacity to overcome.
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Trauma
Trauma is a distressing experience that affects our mental and physical well-being. It is the unresolved emotional response to a frightening event that occurred.
The concept of trauma was first observed in military contexts, but we can experience trauma anywhere from our c...
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- Compare ourselves with others. In most cases, strangers who barely know of our existence. Because, we think that they have it all figured out.
- Deviate from our journey, focusing on that of others.
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Healing from our trauma
As individuals we have the responsibility of holding ourselves accountable as to how we respond to traumatic experiences, how we heal, and grow out of trauma.
Healing from trauma is not easy work but it allows us to face our fears headstrong. We will also be able to provid...
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