Hello, and welcome to our guided meditation course. This course is designed to help you identify and minimise the effect of trauma in your day-to-day. Let’s begin by defining a few key concepts.
Trauma is an insidious thing. It stems from certain events that your brain is not equipped to handle and leaves a nasty, long-lasting effect on your brain. Many symptoms are attributed to it, but the most common one is trigger-induced anxiety. A trigger is something related to a traumatic experience that, as its name suggests, triggers a fight, flight or freeze reaction, no matter how minuscule that trigger may be. Anxiety is that reaction, a state in which the mind is exceedingly vigilant of its surroundings. It is a natural state to be in in the event of danger, although sustained feelings of anxiety are greatly detrimental to one’s health, both physical and mental.
Trauma literally hurts you from the inside. It takes your emotions, your reactions, your past experiences, and it blows them out of proportion both inside you and for the people around you. If left unchecked, it quickly becomes a very isolating condition as you drive the ones you hold closest away due to your past holding you hostage. Even the prospect of external and/or professional help can seem either out of reach or undesirable in these moments.
Although, if you’re here with us, I assume that you probably overcame this obstacle already. So, why don’t we get right into it?
First and foremost, let’s set up a breathing rhythm. This’ll help with both focus on the course and a calmer state of mind.
Inhale… Exhale… (x3)
Trauma has many known symptoms and effects on the body and mind.
W. I. P.