HEALING
November 10, 2009
Healing is a strong dimension of my experience with music and the Arts.
Past events are still with us today as they contributed to form who we are. They have given us insight, strength, wisdom, love, self-esteem, a sense of identity, etc. However, certain traumatic events have overloaded our emotional tank and most of those have been stored in nether regions of our being and seem all but forgotten.
And as life goes on, there is a constant flow of energy diverted toward that pocket of stored emotions to keep it from coming to the surface and overwhelm us again. Rather, what worked then, is put to work every time this memory surfaces: shock, agony, anger, bitterness, rage, hate, unforgiveness, etc. These are often expressed through addictions, self-destructive behavior, toxic relationships, physical sicknesses and health conditions, depression, lack of boundaries, manipulation and control, criminal activities, etc.
Then one day, out of the blue, someone says or does something and we catch ourselves in the act of having again the same inner dialogue. Only this time, it is more than rambling, it is revealing, as we speak we become aware of something very wrong with us. We can become acquainted, according to life’s seasons, with these fragments of our selves that are not integrated, but are lingering at different points of interruption. This systemic denial is a defense mechanism that should have been temporary.
More and more, research indicates the very real possibility that a great number of sicknesses and health conditions may, in many cases, be directly related to past unhealed traumas. Unhealed because our response to them was interrupted, because we had probably had more questions than answers, more pain than we could endure, and surviving the moment was everything. Revisiting these can be a major key in opening the door for healing of our body and soul.
Often, tears need to be accessed, as they are undeniably a door to release stored-up pain. We feel better after a good cry. Some people suffering from fibromalgya told me that crying eases body pain. If we are to move beyond our present hang-ups, addictions, destructive cycles, toxic relationships, chronic bitterness, we need to release those who have hurt us, mourn our losses, and embrace the strength that carried us so far: the faith we could survive and not be limited by messages that traumatic events often came with regarding our value.
Forgiveness often yields a release of various healings. The lies we believed about ourselves and about others will loosen their grip over time and we will grow again in the heart of our youth…
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*1- Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people. Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness. In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada for ages 15-44. Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time.
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