So here is a direct method how to meet trauma especially when it comes at nighttime and how to dissolve it instead of suppressing it.
So what to do when trauma rises at night?
First stop trying to sleep because trying to sleep it just trying to escape it.
The moment you try to sleep you fight a wave.
The body tightens,
The mind spirals,
The energy gets trapped again.
So say inwardly I'm not here to sleep I'm here to meet what is rising and this immediately shifts you out of victimhood into presence.
Second point bring attention from the story so it is from the story from the mind to the body.
The story is noise,
The story is memory,
The story is the echo.
However the trauma is the stuck or frozen energy in the body.
So ask where do I feel it?
Where do I feel the energy in the body which is frozen?
Where do I feel that unpleasant sensation?
Whether it is emotional or physical?
So once you find a spot stay there.
Do not move,
Do not run,
Do not analyze.
Just be with the sensation.
Third point breathe into the sensation not away from it.
So slow,
Relax,
Go deeper without trying to fix it or understand it.
Inhale into the tightness,
Exhale while relaxing everything around it.
Not to force it open,
Just to give it a space.
Space equals safety,
Safety equals capacity,
Capacity equals release.
Fourth point drop the identity,
Drop the meaning,
Tell yourself this is just energy.
This is not me.
This is just energy.
This is not me.
And this is the most important part because trauma becomes unbearable only when you think it's you,
When you think it's your identity.
So when you see this only energy,
Stuck energy,
Frozen energy passing through consciousness you stop being afraid.
Fifth point let the wave be big.
This is where most people run.
If the intensity increases it's okay it's good.
That means the frozen layer is thawing.
Do not panic,
Do not tighten.
Stay and say I stay.
Two minutes of presence can dissolve what 10 years of therapy cannot.
So let the wave crest.
Let it shake,
Let it tremble,
Let it heat up or feel heavy.
This is completion.
Six point when the energy starts to drop do nothing.
Don't evaluate,
Don't judge,
Don't ask if it worked.
Don't try to sleep immediately.
Just breathe and let the system reorganize.
The drop is the release.
Your body is rewiring.
Seven point.
Sleep comes automatically when the wave completes.
You know that is a frozen energy which is stuck in the cycle and you need to finish the cycle.
You need to feel all the emotions where you got stuck into the neutrality.
So trauma interrupts sleep because the body is trying to finish incomplete cycle from the past.
Once the cycle is allowed to complete,
Sleep returns without effort.
The truth you will feel immediately.
You don't heal because you fix the trauma.
You heal because you no longer abandon yourself when it rises.
The moment you stay,
The moment you breathe,
The moment you meet a sensation without running,
The trauma collapses.
This works.
It works for everyone because it is how the human system is built.
