Jan 8, 2025 4 min read Meditation lessons

14. Healing Past Traumas Through Meditation

Meditation allows you to bring your current knowledge and wisdom into past experiences, ensuring that when triggered, you don’t revert to that earlier state.

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Healing past traumas through meditation is entirely possible, but it requires time, patience, and a commitment to practice. In my sessions, I often describe traumas as sticky, stubborn attachments—like memories glued to your mind with superglue. They can be difficult to release and may even leave scars if approached without care, especially when dealing with complex trauma.

Beginning Your Self-Healing Journey

Self-healing through meditation is a deeply rewarding journey towards wisdom and enlightenment. It’s non-invasive—all you need is your breath and awareness—and profoundly personal, as the work happens within yourself.

Before starting any self-healing exercises through meditation, it’s essential to remember the fundamentals, or as I like to call them, the ABCs:

AWARENESS: Whatever the trauma, meditation views it as a creation. This doesn’t mean you caused the trauma, but rather that it exists as something created. As a fragment of the source of creation, you hold the power to transcend and transform it. You can loosen its grip by empowering yourself as a creator and reducing the trauma to something created.
BREATHING: Your breath is your power. With each inhale and exhale, you affirm life. When you feel consumed or overwhelmed, return to your breath to regain control. For stubborn attachments, apply equally persistent focus on breathing.
CANCEL AT ANY TIME: You can stop whenever you wish. Simply open your eyes, regulate your breathing, and return to the present before getting up. Healing is a journey, not a race—it will likely take multiple attempts. With regular practice, you’ll notice progress, as each session builds on the last.

Healing Trauma with Meditation

The process of healing trauma through meditation is straightforward but requires preparation. Always begin by regulating your nervous system to create a state of harmony. This foundational step ensures you can recognise and restore your control state—a balanced centre from which you measure your experiences of present life, past traumas, and future creations.

Identify and Set Your Control State

Your control state is a self-regulated condition where you maintain awareness of how present, past, and future experiences affect you. This state helps you stay grounded and alert, ensuring you don’t drift too far from your centre. Without identifying this state, you risk being overwhelmed by trauma.

We’ll explore this in greater depth next week, or you can delve into it further in Lesson 5: Learn Meditation in 5 Steps.

Exercise the Power of Creation

Seeing yourself as a creator and your trauma as a creation is fundamental to healing. While you cannot alter the past, you can change your relationship to it. Spend time constructing your safe space and exploring alternate realms of creation to realise your power. Through the breath, you can create, enter, and exist in any experience you choose.

Disempower Your Trauma

Recovery requires you to disempower trauma by leveraging knowledge and wisdom. For many of my students with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stemming from childhood experiences, the primary challenge is overcoming regression.

Trauma can only control your life if you allow yourself to regress into the state of awareness you had when the trauma occurred. Meditation allows you to bring your current knowledge and wisdom into past experiences, ensuring that when triggered, you don’t revert to that earlier state.

One effective way to achieve this is by exerting power over your memories. For example, if you recall yesterday’s breakfast, revisit that memory and alter it. Change the colour of your plate, turn your meal into ice cream, or imagine a pink sky above your dining table. These actions assert control over the memory, reinforcing that the past serves you—you do not serve it.

With childhood trauma, you can take this further by giving your inner child a louder voice, shrinking an abuser to the size of a grain of rice, or whispering reassurance into your younger self’s ears. Let your inner child know that you’ve grown into someone capable of healing and protecting them.

Healing takes time and practice, but the sooner you begin, the sooner you’ll recover. Meditation can also be an excellent complement to clinical and professional therapies, so consider integrating both for a holistic approach.

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