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24 ISSUE 60 // MAY 2015
I recently attended a Trauma
workshop for therapists and what I
took from this session really made
me sit up and take note. Australia
is holding a Royal Commission into
Child Sexual Abuse in Intuitions.
Unfortunately in Australia the
three big churches have been the
offenders.
Many stories were found to be
covered up and priests, bishops and
other clergy simply got off scot free
or have since died the victims have
been left to cope in whatever they
could.
The complex trauma that the
victims have carried with them all
these years is no less than the day
the abuse started to occur, our mind
simply pushes the memories into
the subconscious. Complex trauma
is developmental trauma, so these
children didn’t have the opportunity
to go through normal early childhood
development. They experienced
abnormal development and learnt
to live their lives in a state of hyper
or hypo pathological states which
can result in long-term disease,
disability, chronic social problems
or early death. Also to factor is
intergenerational transmission,
passing on the defective signals the
next generation.
Looking closer at this
intergenerational transmission
of abuse we can see how each
generation has coped using, silence,
depression, suicide, substance abuse
etc. When early attachment bonds
in early childhood is misaligned then
this can send messages of feeling
unsafe and not knowing your physical
boundaries. Quite often an abused
child will grow up to be an abuser
him or herself, this is the tragedy of
a systemic system that firstly treats
the victims i.e. a drug addict as a
criminal, not a person who needs
help and healing and the perpetrators
not always held accountable or not
receiving the proper re-education
to help change their belief systems.
Changing beliefs are neural networks
sparking up new pathways in the
brain. Once it’s understood that
change is possible, then you can
change your thinking and the mind
will take care of the rest.
I had to ponder the Australian
Indigenous Aboriginals when I
was sitting in that room learning
about the systemic abuse, the
repercussions, the intergenerational
impact, the stigma’s and the sad
state of our understanding as a
community and individuals towards
those that seem to appear less
fortunate than us, those who had
babies, infants and young children
taken from them, lands taken, human
rights ignored. A whole race affected
by induced trauma. How have they
coped?
There is hope though; Dr Bruce
Lipton the author of The Biology
of Belief has done some groundbreaking work in the field of
new biology or epigenetics. His
experiments have examined in great
detail the mechanisms by which cells
receive and process information. The
implications of this research radically
change our understanding of life. It
shows that genes and DNA do not
control our biology; that instead DNA
is controlled by signals from outside
the cell, including the energetic
messages emanating from our
positive and negative thoughts. Dr.
Lipton’s profoundly hopeful synthesis
of the latest and best research in cell
biology and quantum physics is being
hailed as a ma jor breakthrough,
showing that our bodies can be
changed as we retrain our thinking.
www.brucelipton.com
Epigenetics has made it clear that
there is no escaping that the truth
lays within our very deepest self.
Individual strengths and weaknesses
characteristics directly attributable
to familial and cultural perceptions
are programmed into our minds
before the age of 6. In turn these
perceptions are responsible for
physical and mental health issues
experienced in our adult lives. How
many children never realize their full
potential because of dysfunctional
programming due to childhood
trauma, generational trauma?
You cannot run away from your
circumstances, you can’t hide behind
a façade or pretend to be who you
are not, you cannot disconnect and
you cannot fane ignorance, because
every cell in your body holds that
memory of the abuse and you
cannot change yourself or future
generations until you change your
thinking.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
can help as can Rational Emotive
Behavioural Therapy and many other
therapies that work on the mind, but
to think we must feel, and to feel the
pain is to experience the trauma all
over again. Never under estimate
the power of mediation and yoga as
extra tools towards finding well-being
and good psychological health.
Trauma creates self-sabotaging
beliefs and those negative
perceptions interfere in our daily
functioning. So my observation is
this: before we go out to try and
change the world, we must first look
inward to change ourselves. Then, by
changing our beliefs, we do change
the world and eliminate all traumas
from body, mind, soul, land, country
and community.
HAWKESBURY DISTRICT INDEPENDENT NEWS www.hdinews.com.au