Ecological Approach To Healing Trauma

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Ecological Approach To Healing Trauma

• Practicing D.E.A.R. in
• Daily Life

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TRUTH

• Truth passes through three stages
• First, it is ridiculed.
• Second, it is violently opposed.
• Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

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• The past is not dead
• It is not even past
• William Faulkner

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Maria Yellowhorse Braveheart

• Confront historical trauma embrace ones history
• Understand the trauma
• Release the pain
• Transcend the trauma

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Duran Must RE-cognizebehaviors and beliefs
that result from traumaChild work 1st task
get them to internalize it (the trauma) is NOT
your fault
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Its not what you dont know that will hurt
youIts what you DO KNOW that AINT SO that
will hurt you.
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Oppression

• oppression etymology crowd, troop
• noun 1.the exercise of authority or power in a
  burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. 2.an act or
  instance of oppressing. 3.the state of being
  oppressed. 4.the feeling of being heavily
  burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles,
  adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.

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• 98 of all atoms in the body will be different
  next year this time.

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Healing Resilience
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Attachment/Resonance ? Resilience

• Primary Attachment environmental
• Mother and fathers health
• Richness of the placental environment
• Mothers support systems - diet, lifestyle,
  stress, health, extended family, good marriage,
  coping styles psychological, happiness, social
• Trauma of birth minimized
• Post birth psychosocial, cultural resonance
• Environmental climate
• Natural disasters ecological trauma
• Recovery determined by other attachment/resonance
  resilience issues.

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Attachment/Resonance ? Resilience

• 13.9 billion years of experimental trials
• extinguishing what does not work
• Does NOT resonate
• laying down the environmental law for each
  region, organisms, cells
• relationships between all

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3 Functions of the Universe

• Differentiation

Humans are a communion that is conscious of
itself.
Subjectivity
Communion
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?? Attachment/ResonanceGreat
Mystery ? Resilience

• Universe Individuals
• Galaxies Organs
• Solar Systems Organelles
• Stars Cells
• Planets Atoms
• Cultures Sub-Atomic Particles
• Communities Quarks
• Families Etc. Great Mystery

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Attachment/Resonance ? Resilience

• ALL are not alike but are governed by the same
  rules of relationships between levels and one
  level incorporates and increases in complexity
  from the one below.
• SO remember the universe moves toward greater
  complexity and diversity as it evolves both
  ways!

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Resonance respects ALLsides not a or -
phenomena.Power implies other.Cultural
Pathology mythic addictionsEuropean Cultural
Pathology PROGRESSProgress get out of the
way to cultures now, the biosphere
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Attachment/Resonance gtTrauma? / ? Resilience

• Environment Trauma Adaptation or
  Mal/adaptation
• Pregnant Mom Alcohol/Drugs Fetal Alcohol
  Spectrum Disorder
• This is a type of adaptation at work but without
  alcohol/drugs easier adaptation
• Millions of years practicing without
  alcohol/drugs during pregnancy.

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Adverse Childhood ExperiencesDetriments/Toxins
Resilience

• Language Immersion Resilience

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Attachment/Resonance gtTrauma? / ? Resilience

• Organism has good biochemical, psychological,
  social, cultural environments trauma
• General Adaptation Syndrome or initial stress,
  then adaptation and return to normal
  conditions, with modifications in perceptions of
  whats normal
• Psychological, behavioral counseling
• Prayer, ministry
• Rituals of restoration of self/other,
  self/community

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Attachment/Resonance gtTrauma? / ? Resilience

• If trauma impact is
• Severe and intense
• Long duration and/or repeated frequently
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for a person
  can become burnout or learned helplessness
• Done on a large enough/long enough scale (Native
  Cultures, Katrina NOLA) cultural trauma, even
  cultural extinction (adaptation death)

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Cultural Extinction

• Only remnants of original culture and always are
  perceived through eyes of the present culture in
  which one lives looking back, paradise,
  blissful, repeat ceremonies but get it
  right all is ok.who defines?

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Impossible to live the daily life of a
culture/person that has not been traumatized or
the daily life of someone forty years ago if
you do you may become a relic Red Sticks
Creeks at Horseshoe Bend
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Ecological Adaptation

• Jared Diamond Collapse
• Cultures decision-making errors
• Groups may do disastrous things because they
  failed to anticipate a problem before it arrived.
• Groups failed to see a problem has arrived.
• Societies fail to solve problems once perceived.
• Irrational Behaviors

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Must Respond to ALL

• deforestation/habitat destruction
• soil problems
• water management problems
• overhunting/overfishing
• effects of introduced species on native species
• human population growth
• ? per capita impact of people
• human caused climate change
• buildup of toxic chemicals in the environment
• energy shortages
• full human utilization of photosynthetic capacity
  

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Ecological Response Despair

• Its too late
• Its too much to give up
• Its so hard to change
• What does it matter?
• It wont affect me.
• If I have enough stored X, Ill be ok.
• Father stores guns mother stores food.

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Ecological Response Resilience

• Research on youth who are resilient
• experience great stress, trauma, violence,
  neglect and/or other abuse adjust well to life.
  (?)
• Later in life problems emerge

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For the Rest of US

• Adjust - to new environment (internal/external)
• Adapt change self/external environment
• Amend to God, others, self
• Adjudicate sue the ________
• Addiction cope with dope
• Alacrity respond with humor, cheerful
  acceptance
• Activity stay busy, cause-driven,
  purpose-driven
• Abstract go into thought, isolate oneself,
  disengage

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Cognitive Disintegration OR Why Am I Not
Getting IT and Feeling Worse?
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Duran Spring feeding the stream bail water
forever (psychobabble, medicine treats the
stream) and the spring continues to flow
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In the Taoist traditions of China, communities
that were in chaos would hire a person who
studies the TAO (The Way) to come and live
close to the village and their PRESENCE would
change the village chaos to order.
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FOCUS - Daily LifeA Return to Resonance gt
Resilience

• Change daily life to affect environment and help
  heal trauma.
• Diet
• Exercise
• Attitude
• Relaxation
• LIFE IS DEAR!

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DEAR
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Goal Health/Happiness

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DIET

• Eat according to
• Local seasonal, fresh,
• Whole bitter with the sweet
• Low on Food Chain
• DRUGS ALCOHOL SUGAR
• FRUIT GRAINS VEGETABLES BEANS
  NUTS DAIRY MEAT SALT
• Read labels avoid foods if you cannot
  pronounce the words on the labels
• dont buy it!

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EXERCISE

• MOVE!
• Walk instead of using a car
• Bike
• Garden (eat your plants)
• Dance
• Yoga/Exercise Bands
• Hike
• Canoe/Kayak
• Swim

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Attitude
FACES Flexible Adaptive Coherent Energized Stable
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INTEGRATION FLEXIBILITY ADAPTABILITY COHERENCE ENE
RGY STABILITY
RIGIDITY REDUNDANCY INFLEXIBILITY MALDAPTABILITY S
INGLE-MINDED STAGNANT ENERGY INSTABILITY
CHAOS NOVELTY FRAGILE MALADAPTABILITY IN-COHERENCE
ENERGY SCATTERED INSTABILITY UNFOCUSED
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Integration gt Executive Consciousness ?

• Planning
• Self-regulation
• Balancing emotions
• Body Awareness
• Appropriate Stress Response
• Enhanced Social Skills
• Mindful Awareness
• present-centered, non-judgmental, reflective
• Attachment
• Resonance with body/emotions/
• thoughts of self/other,
• Meaning derived from resonance

• Intuition
• Morality
• Memories inform but not necessarily determine the
  present narrative sense making resolves
  trauma/grief
• Ability to integrate temporal past, present,
  future to discover purpose of life and consider
  transience/death issues
• Mirror neural system gt (empathy, insight) leads
  to identifying with something larger than oneself
  (transpersonal, spiritual)

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RESILIENCE BALANCE
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Relaxation RE-silence (minimize the I to ?
resilience)

• Worry, stress, mental exhaustion but not
  physical, sleep disorders ?
• Anything to help focus attention
• Take up some form of slowing down - porch
  sitting, visiting. prayer, art, meditation, use
  relaxation tapes, machines for brain
  synchronization learn to do NOTHING

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Benefits to Internal/External Environments

• John Robbins EarthSave Foundation
• www.earthsave.org
• Handout Please Take One
• Our Food/Our Future
• Making a Difference with Every Bite
• The Power of the Fork!

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WHY???

• To do the spiritual work you were meant to do
  regardless of the possibility of coming disasters
  and/or ecological problems.

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ANALENISGI
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• SGI

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