Re: Trauma shames

I can really identify with Bradshaw. When I observe my mind in mindfulness practice I can see how the rational, analytic part always jumps in when there is a noise and it needs to make sure that nothing threatening is going on. A survivor and defense mechanism, it seems to be.

As long as I don't identify with the thoughts I go back to peace and serenity, but if I follow the analyzer I am lost in the story.  So noises are mini-traumas, while big traumas identify me completely with the thinking mind and the fear.

Mikael