Eesha, Week 11: Powerfully Possesed
Powerfully Possesed
Throughout our childhoods we experience countless events that we continue to remember as we get older and journey through life. These memorable and worthwhile events register in our brains and as we proceed to age, experiencing new memories moment by moment, small reminders placed in our daily lives take us back to meaningful places and circumstances we otherwise wouldn't remember.
We have all endured numerous positive things, but it's more often the negative occurrences that have the most detrimental effects. The reminders that allow us to relive these affairs trigger emotions impersonation of what our minds and bodies went through in those moments. Due to this a majority of people develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Aside from the psychological and emotional impact that they can trigger, these fatalistic incidents also influence our physical composure. Our body tracks and envelops the numerous decadent occasions that prevent our bodies from truly healing and settling at their full potential. Whether an individual's goal is weight loss, recovery from an injury, or reaching their fitness goals, nutritionists and neuroscientists have discovered that our body's stored trauma can make attaining and fulfilling our desires that much harder.
So acknowledging the revelation that doctors have passed forth and made available to the public, people like therapists will ask their clients to revisit the affairs-no matter how insignificant or irrelevant- to truly accept what happened in their lives. They then practice replacing the obstructive and pessimistic emotions (triggered through the recollection) with feelings and sensations of forgiveness, empathy, and love. This way they are able to release the power that certain episodes have had on them.
Despite our comprehension of what may seem unrelated or negligible, tiny occurrences, buried deep inside ourselves, burden our reality and grasp our future.
I enjoyed reading about the true, yet scary power that these negative experiences have on us. I often have trouble sleeping when I recall embarrassing or traumatic memories, those memories ranging from something as simple as accidentally waving to the wrong person to something as complex as having a serious argument with my parents. It makes you really think about how reflecting and recalling these memories can actually affect your health/your ability to reach your full potential, as you have mentioned. We often joke about our trauma, taking in the enjoyment of self-deprecating and ironic humor while not acknowledging the consequences of bringing these memories back into the conscious mind.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of my point that I brought up in my comment for Anirudh's blog, which I also think you would enjoy reading: knowledge is power. In this case, you brought up the negative consequences of this power, which I think adds a nice contrast to his blog that I previously read. I also liked the idea of first introducing the problem, and then providing a way to resolve the issue. After all, we all face this problem more often than we think, so perhaps we can take these therapists' advice and learn to "accept what happened in our lives." I am not sure what happened to this blog, though, I think the formatting got messed up. I suggest that after you publish your blogs, you check back on it to make sure that it is in the ideal format you want. That way, other readers can also have an easier time reading it, too. Overall, I think this theme was one of my favorite themes that I have read out of this week's blogs, and I believe that this could be informative to the rest of the audience.