World View Perspective: Recalibrating the Rings of Fear
When we have experienced trauma, it is like a tree being hit by lightening. Many of the rings in the tree are affected, effected and impacted. The trauma is experienced at the time. It can prevent the tree from growing and going in its right direction and even halting the expected growth of the tree from it's roots. Theses 'rings of fear' can go out and traumatize the tree for years to come unless and until we consciously go in and recalibrate the trauma and the consequent fear. We do this by becoming as conscious as we can of our trauma. Even digging through the emotions of it as far as we can. Think of getting a sliver of wood in your arm. It hurts at the time and maybe we forget about it or ignore it or dismiss it. So it continues to go deeper so now we hide the arm from others and begin to think we did something wrong. We'd rather deny that sliver got in there to begin with than to turn and face it. Now, maybe it is infected and truly feeling it and exper