This Spiritual Life Coaching exercise will help you to commence a new and transcendent path filled with peace, joy, and tranquility. It is a guided meditation for those who seek to heal their primal wound and early childhood trauma. If you practice it once three times a week for three months, you should begin to transcend your emotional pain-body and dissolve your toxic emotions…for good.

1. Become seated and cross your legs in a yoga position and close your eyes.

2. Place your tongue on the roof of your mouth just behind your teeth. Keep it there throughout the entire meditation. Inhale slowly through your nose from your diaphragm, allowing the air to push your lower belly out. Repeat this seven times, focusing your attention on your breath.

3. Visualize the time in your childhood when you experienced your first emotional trauma, no matter how slight or how severe.

4. Now focus on that event for a few moments. See the person who inflicted the trauma, whether it was a parent, sibling, classmate, friend, whomever. If it was more than one person then visualize every person involved. Focus your thoughts on this time in your life until you have a clear picture of it in your mind.

5. All of the pain in your life stems back to this one event, this primal wound. It is time now to heal this pain, and retrieve your soul. There is a hidden treasure that lies at the heart of this trauma.

6. Visualize the eyes of the person who caused this primal, first wounding. See their suppressed pain in their own eyes. As you’re observing this, know in your heart of hearts that they simply didn’t know any better. Know that if they knew better, they would never have hurt you. They were only reacting from their own place of pain, inflicted by someone else when they were a child.

7. Now send the person responsible for your initial wound pure white light emanating from your beating heart. Send them love and forgiveness through the light. Send them the thought wave, saying “I forgive you and understand that you didn’t know any better.” Stay here in this place, for as long as you need, pulsing the white light from your heart toward them with every beat and then visualize the light consuming their entire body until you see them smile. After you see them smile, keep visualizing the pulsating light until their body is completely engulfed in white light.

8. Now release them with unconditional love and forgiveness.

A traumatic experience impacts a person. If the trauma was ongoing, the effects are usually more severe; but even one experience can create immeasurable damage.

Whether your childhood trauma was a matter of witnessing a horrible event, or, as occurs even more often, being on the receiving-end of physical, sexual, or extreme emotional abuse, you have probably already experienced plenty of consequences from it.

One of the most important things for you to know is that the effects do not need to be permanent. What happened to you in your childhood does not need to ruin the rest of your life! Equally important, you also do not need to spend the rest of your life relying on support groups or medications, being in therapy or counseling, or any of the methods which are quite popular these days. While such methods can indeed be of short-term help, the can also create dependency. The bottom line is they can keep you stuck – living in the problem rather than in the solution.

Childhood trauma often leads to a host of problems. These can include eating disorders, substance abuse, inability to form and maintain healthy relationships, and many other difficulties. These problems themselves can lead a trauma survivor to feeling helpless and hopeless.

Living in the solution means addressing the cause of these problems at its source. When you can face the trauma and acknowledge it for what it was, you are making progress toward the solution. When you work through all of those feelings of pain, anger, and confusion, you are taking the best steps toward letting it go.

If you have not yet taken these steps, you are still living in the consequences of the trauma. Failing to address the old feelings in the context of the trauma, they often come out in other, very inappropriate ways. You do not need to continue in this type of pattern; nor do you need to make recovery the focus of the rest of your life.

If you experienced trauma in your childhood, you may now be at a turning point. You may be ready to acknowledge exactly how damaging those experiences eventually became to you – the impact it has had on virtually every area of your life. If you are also ready to make some positive changes and begin living in the solution rather than existing in the problem, the good news is that you are now opening the door to a bright and happier future.

Are you ready to put the past in the past – and finally be free of its effects? Beware of anything that you can see will create further dependency – whether keeping the old problem or adding new ones, it is not the answer. There are answers which are not only much more positive, but will also be much better in the long run – and the very best answer of all is that your life can finally be in your own hands, to live and experience as you wish! This can all be yours – as soon as you begin living in the solution!

Adult trauma is the experience of a bodily or emotional event, usually negative, as an adult verses a childhood happening. A traumatic episode can have a lasting psychic effect on both an adult or child, but especially on children who are still forming their personality.

Adult vs childhood trauma effects how the person sees adversity or negative events that occur in the journey of life. Those who have had a strong support system and have been able to process what happened are more capable of handling additional stress than those who had no one to help them deal with the negative trauma.

Is It Trauma or Just Stressful Incident

Adults who have experienced trauma as children are more likely to perceive events in their grown lives as traumatic rather than stressful. Adults who have had fairly trauma-free early lives tend to perceive negative events and experiences as more isolated and have a greater stress tolerance.

Adults and children who have not dealt successfully with the past traumatic events tend to link their current trauma to past events. By processing and working through a traumatic event, whether as an adult or child, allows the individual to put it in a wider context of life.

The individual learns great coping skills that can transfer to other areas of life.

Do Some People Attract Trauma

Some scientific studies have shown that those with early childhood trauma which has never been resolved or processed continue to experience more trauma as adults. The debate is how much it is a matter of perception or choice to keep attracting that to which they have unfortunately become accustomed. Some people create crisis situations because they have become accustomed to being in crisis.

Negative Belief Systems Can Be Changed

If you were involved in either Adult or Childhood Trauma, you will want to re-examine your belief system and make sure it is serving you now. If not, then reframe the trauma and process the experience so it is not repeated.