 When it comes to working with trauma Should you focus on your thoughts your beliefs your core beliefs or should it be automatic and body work or? Is that Kind of a meaningless distinction So some people will say it's all about your belief system. You know you bring a defective belief system out of your Trauma your childhood trauma your complex trauma, maybe and The name of the game is to get to those beliefs and to to reprogram them a lot of them are unconscious beliefs and I Can understand why people have been critical of that approach, you know Especially I think back in the 70s and 80s Maybe there was that whole kind of it was it was almost a very cognitive approach to healing or an approach like almost a positivity movement or Even positives affirmations things like this People would look at themselves in the mirror and they would say nice things about themselves trying to reprogram that negative self-talk and those core beliefs a Lot of people went crazy doing that, you know, it's it's not it's very difficult Especially if the core belief is the exact opposite the standard front of the mirror and say those things and Not create kind of a cognitive dissonance within yourself Where now there's this conflict taking place? so That's not to say that there's not some help from from that that positivity, right? I'm not totally saying that that should be thrown out, but it certainly isn't quite that simple However, here's maybe the more interesting thing from today's video is I often hear people say to I think to go to the opposite extreme, which is Just whatever is coming up in terms of trauma. Maybe it's a reaction to something Some trigger is to sit with that and bring awareness to it now is the is the practice of Sitting with feelings and bringing awareness to it helpful hugely helpful hugely helpful. I think it's fundamentally helpful But is that enough? I'm not so sure that that's enough because I think a lot of the time we do that We actually do sit with the trauma response and you know, I can remember times when I've sat with my own responses and It came up again, and I've talked to a lot of people in therapy and they've said I've done that the sitting I've sat with the reactions and it keeps coming back up so it's not only That because I think there's another layer of inquiry into the the response and Because there's this distinction between The emotion and the belief we need to get rid of that or it's kind of a then you go into the debate But which came first the did the feeling and the body was it pre-verbal and then did a belief form or did the belief form and then it embedded itself in the body Chicken and egg scenario, but I Think an awful lot of these these energies or these traumas or these Somatic things that we carry in the body due to trauma Have got an art of our story or belief around them So they can also while we bring awareness to them. We can also start to to invite questions to start to become Kind of curious about them. Where is this coming from? What is this about? Why do I keep seeing this again and again? To do inquire even like a Byron Katie inquiry Questioning some of it if we can find out that there is a thought behind it or a believer behind it So I guess the idea behind today's short video is really just It's not purely a cognitive approach or a purely mindful approach That is going to be the answer to every experience of trauma I think it's both and quite often both Simultaneously at the same time the cognitive and the simple sitting in awareness But I hope that's a useful video guys. I Think It's about becoming more sophisticated in our approach to handling Trauma and healing trauma and I think when you do that and you start to inquire into it actually What you'll notice over time is that you actually really are healing now you're beginning to understand Yes, you're bringing presence to it with that awareness, but you're also beginning to understand yourself more And what's it you feel you can find finally understand things more, you know You're making the unconscious conscious really at that point things tends to go away. It's not not recur So I'll leave it there for now guys, but thanks again for being with me and see you next time