When it happens that the heart, mind, and body become
overloaded with negative impressions concerning events that they
are subject to while in a state of helplessness or necessary
conformity to the circumstances at hand, then conditions are
ripe for the inner disorder that has come to be known as ‘post
traumatic stress disorder’ (PTSD).

PTSD is not primarily a disorder of the mind, though it may
appear as such, but rather a disorder of the heart that no
longer feels capable of dealing with the helplessness that it
has had no way of preventing. This helplessness, while in a
state of moderate intensity, can produce a numbing of all the
emotions of heart and body so that one can live through the
experience. But when conditions change and the external
situation is no longer present or no longer as stressful, or,
when numbing is no longer effective, then the release of what
has been encapsulated can occur without any warning, and
suddenly, what was a successful way of coping with distress,
becomes unsuccessful.

PTSD is not a disease of the body. Nor is it a disease of the
mind. Rather, it is a symptom of the limitation of a heart that
has been stretched to its limit in order to regulate the
emotions of fear, confusion, rage, and helplessness brought
about by a circumstance or circumstances that it could not
prevent. Under normal conditions, the heart has a way of taking
instruction from the mind so that it receives guidelines about
what to believe about such circumstances and how to hold them in
a way that gives them believability and credibility. But under
the circumstance of severe and ongoing trauma or of a single
traumatic incident of great intensity, the heart no longer
believes that there is any explanation that is credible for what
it is feeling or perceiving, and no longer knows how it will
survive the need to continue enduring what cannot be explained.
This is a perception of the heart rather than the mind, for the
mind may hold explanations, but these do not appear to make a
difference to the heart.

Often, one who has experienced severe trauma - whether on a
battlefield, in a violent or cruel relationship, as a victim of
sudden brutality, terror, or horror, or, as a witness of severe
violence done to others - first becomes numb to these
circumstances as a way of turning down the volume of nervous
system overload that is a result of the situation. However, when
numbing is not possible, either because the situation continues
without let-up at the same high level of intensity and the
body’s fear responses are continuously activated, or, because
the sense of disbelief and shock have already taken hold, and
one has already begun to feel that nothing makes sense, symptoms
of PTSD can begin to be observed.

The violence and horror that are the general precursors to PTSD
can occur in many forms. They can occur through one’s own being
the subject of cruelty, abuse, or horror, or they can occur
through witnessing someone else or a group of others in this
role. The heart, having come to the end of its capacity to
tolerate the pain of its own experience, begins to look for ways
to compensate for the amount of distress it is feeling so that
its very survival can continue.

The spiritual context in which PTSD develops is an outgrowth of
the emotional, for the powerful emotional resonance of PTSD
produces a separation of the lower emotional body from the
higher, so that an infusion of light from the higher Self which
might otherwise transform the situation and make it more
bearable, becomes difficult or impossible. For many who
experience traumatic situations, the experience, in retrospect,
is one in which the individual does not know how they got
through it, feeling that something unknown took over that made
survival possible. This ’something’ is often a transfusion of
spiritual energy from the higher energy bodies into the heart
center so that more capacity exists to deal with the present
circumstances. Such a transfusion of light occurs in many
instances of difficulty for individuals, for each soul who is
severely challenged in life is being helped from the soul level
of their being as well as by other beings of light who may be
assisting. Nevertheless, where the heart has become enveloped
with its own pattern of resonance with energies of terror,
despair, confusion, anger or helplessness, it can happen that
the higher bodies cannot gain access to the level of the
physical self in order to further self-healing. As a result, the
physical self who experiences the results of trauma can come to
feel that there is no way to relieve it.

There are many forms of treatment that have been refined,
today, for post traumatic stress disorder, and also many who are
in need of this help. The spiritual incorporation of greater
light into the body and heart would add to these, the
possibility for creating a bridge of light and healing so that
the woundedness of the heart could be held in a different energy
than the one it is presently resonating with. This practice of
alignment with the higher levels of oneself, carried out
regularly, can serve the purposes of healing, enabling many more
to find their way back from traumatic situations than can occur
at the present time. It is also true that in a future in which
such separation of energy bodies might take place, there would
be enough transmitted light so that the seamless reconstruction
of the pathways between upper and lower bodies could take place
as a normal part of the maintenance processes of the entire
spiritual-physical being.

For now, both the current ways of addressing PTSD and the
incorporation of light from the spiritual dimension are
effective means of addressing the healing needs of PTSD, the
latter by increasing the joining of the physical self with the
self-of-light so that a new energy can enter the picture and
alter the disabling conditions from within. Until such time as
changes on the world scene make this disorder a thing of the
past, ‘post traumatic stress disorder’ will best be viewed as a
spiritual-emotional disorder related to the time we are in, with
dire consequences for the many who are suffering greatly from
its effects.

About The Author: Julie Redstone is a teacher, writer, and
founder of Light Omega – http://lightomega.org - a center for
spiritual teaching and healing whose purpose is to create an
understanding of the sacred transition into light that the earth
is presently going through.

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