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Healing trauma
Lesson 52 of A Course in Miracles
Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.
Seeing these together made me think:
(6) I am upset because I see what is not there. (ACIM, W-52.1:1)
(7) I see only the past. (ACIM, W-52.2:1)
(8) My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. (ACIM, W-52.3:1
(9) I see nothing as it is now.(ACIM, W-52.4:1
(10) My thoughts do not mean anything. (ACIM, W-52.5:1))
I recently saw some videos from Irene Lyon that discuss how trauma affects the nervous system and, therefore, our physical health. The trauma might be mild in a physical sense, but what happens after trauma is that our bodies don’t respond in ways they naturally would.
As I understand it, we didn’t have as much knowledge about the impact of trauma, particularly early childhood trauma, 50 years ago when Course materials were written. But I think it explains why we think as we do, why we see things — threats — that aren’t there, and have built entire ways of living based on illusions. Our very survival mode…
