Vachon Imagined

When people stay at the level of trauma, they can live there their entire lives.

Feeling and refueling what the mind remembers.

The mind and body are not two separate units, though many cultures, including Western medicine, have treated them as if they are.

But the body is life.

The mind is life.

Life is life.

They (it) are moving together into what we call trauma, or a person.

The problem with memory is that it doesn’t simply go away.

And we cannot remove trauma merely through understanding it.

We have to go beyond it.

We have to live unified.

This is difficult because living with trauma is difficult.

So we give it up.

How?

There are many ways.

But perhaps the greatest way to work with trauma is to live as God.

Live presently.

When the mind begins to split, notice it.

When it begins to remember itself, notice it.

You don’t have to escape it.

You don’t have to praise it.

You don’t even have to talk about it.

In fact, sometimes the less you talk about it, the better.

Because it is mind moving.

Something moving through the body into what we call life—and then moving out.

The experience does not need to become a person.

It does not need to become an identity.

It does not need a name.

It can simply move.

And this is where liberation happens.

Not because the memory has been erased.

Not because the trauma never happened.

But because it is no longer being made into a self.

You experience it.

You allow it.

And you allow it to be relinquished.

This is where trauma has no existence.

No name.

No person.

No evidence.

It is over.

There is no need to keep revisiting it.