PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

During a recent conversation with a former colleague and friend, we talked about the life lessons we learned while both working for the same employer and why we were brought there.  I explained to her that throughout my life, I appear to attract similar supervisors and employment environments. These environments reminded me of my childhood home, frequently emotionally chaotic and unstable.  As an adult, I ran from one employer to another, but I appear to attract the same situations and people no matter where or how far I ran.

I explained to my friend that I began to realize this recently about my life, and my lesson this time around is to learn how to deal with these chaotic and unstable emotional situations.  I believe that I ran from these circumstances because they remind me of my childhood home life that frightens me. However, as an adult, I have the means to protect myself, and make different choices.   As I was unable to cope with this as  a child and as an adult, I used the same coping mechanism of avoidance and escape as I essentially did as a child although I used dissociation, a psychological term that means mentally leaving my body so I could avoid feeling pain and trauma.

Now, as an adult, I realize that my life has been so limited.  I am essentially living a life of a phobic person.  People with phobias avoid their phobias or fears.  For example, if one is phobic to confined space, they would avoid working or living in a building with an elevator.  They would avoid all activities requiring confined or enclosed spaces, etc.  Those with phobias who have not overcome their phobias live a very limiting life full of avoidance and fear in dealing with their reality.

I realize that for my life now, I need to overcome my own phobias that is to learn to deal with people who remind me of my parents.  In order to do this, I must overcome my fears by healing my emotional trauma so that I no longer react to these people.  I earlier posted an article on “How to Achieve Non-Reaction.”  I believe this can be accomplished through Emotional Release Practice, and Ego Observing Practice, both can be found on these tabs on my Blogsite Homepage.

This realization has given me motivation to stay on course to overcome my past and to heal my emotional trauma, so I no longer need to use avoidance and escape as ways of coping with my life now. May you find your path to healing, Brooke (Copyright 2014 Kundalini Spirit with All Rights Reserved)

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