We add layers to the cultural and familial generated traumas by adding layers to the wounding through our choices for managing distress and anxiety. We just can’t help but become mentally distressed, if not mentally ill, as normal yet unskilled reactions to an abnormal environment. We need to see these issues from a new perspective, but new perspective are not available to those stuck in the rut of suffering and despair.
Activities like gravitating towards cults or fundamentalist religious groups and using drugs and alcohol to excess are all coping mechanisms to escape difficult feelings, despair, and loss of meaning. Yet these coping mechanisms create more levels of mental and physical illness in the sufferer, no matter how socially acceptable these activities are to those who are practicing them. New traumatic influences layered over unresolved old traumas leads to eventual collapse of the body, mind, and spirit.
Though I had begun my healing process earlier in the year, and finally began to rebalance my energies, I was still psychologically and physically compromised by years of drug abuse and traumatic wounding. Healing sometimes happens in fits and starts, extending over long periods of time for the person earnestly seeking healing. But for me, healing began in one overwhelming moment of direct connection with divine healing energy.
Thus, the experience of June 22, 1987, a truly healing and transformative day in my life.
