Your Body Is Ready But Your Mind Isn't. How accurate is this phrase when it comes down to recovery?

[thegreenyogi]

Whether you have had to recover from physical or mental injuries or traumas, has your mind ever created an invisible wall made up of fears and false truths that have in someway prevented you from recovering sooner than you did? And between mind and body who has the upper hand? Does the mind really have that much power or are we allowing the mind to act because our willingness to fight is not stronger?

[There_Is_Rehab]

It starts when you are terrorized as a kid. At least once. That is enough. You were frightened. And then? Your feelings were invalidated.

That's it. Now your body is stuck with those feelings. When you are scared, it is not your brain saying "this should be scary". It is your NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ADRENALINE saying "only when i am allowed to cry about it, then that threat is gone".

And even then, it is not guaranteed. It does not even have to be repressed panic. Any repressed emotion. If you forcefully stop it, then your diaphragm clenches. Forever. This creates a variety of postural imbalances. Your body still thinks the terror exists until you cry about it.

Unfortunately, NO AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS HAS HELPED ME. Until an emotional event occured. The event always depends on how the trauna started. I think you saw it if you wanted to. i saw the words "bye" by someone who reminded of my caretaker.

I know. We all heard this a thousand times in our lives. And still most of us are stuck. Our diaphragms never thaw. That requires facing our fears. But not in the "brave macho" way. In the "i surrender, i played for the wrong team" way + the environment is truly what safety was supposed to look like when that happened.

Not what happened afterward. Revenge does not work. Don't even try. PLEASE stop trying. So many of us try it. Revenge does not scream to your inner child "terror no longer exists".

When you plan one thing and do it differently, you copy the traits of the aggressor. You are playing for their team against those victims like your broken self. Because YOUR BODY IS TAUGHT THEY THEY THRIVE, AND YOUR VICTIM VERSION IS SILENCED.

And worst, you do it without trying. Without knowing. If you were to willingly try mimicking your abuser, you wouldn't do it as well as you do it when your body thinks it is necessary to survive and does automatically.

The moments you think your mind fights the body is always YOUR. BODY. COPYING. YOUR. ABUSER. BECAUSE. HE. THRIVED. AND. YOU. BARELY. SURVIVED. and you never truly cried the shit out of yourself about it.

Your mind makes up infinite excuses. Infinite ∞!!! and you discard any facts that steer your actions away from acting like the one who terrorized you. Your nervous system does. It needs safety. You become CLEVERER THE MORE TRAUMATIZED YOU ARE!!! It is a sort of "demon." Hear that? Childhood. trauma. is. a. strengthened. demon. who. wants. nothing. but. to. prolong. its. life. and. inflict. itself. onto. others.

WHY? BECAUSE WITHOUT DOING THE STUPID/EVIL SHIT, you might not survive. your body is brainwashed into it.

Trauma based mind control. It is the root cause of intrusive thoughts. Those disgusting ideas we think are just a bit unusual and outright disgusting. That is what our abusers carry in their subconscious, our subconscious absorbs and says "they are more powerful than me, because they do these evil things. I should do it too. That is how we become influential."

For the first time since i was infant, i just had a pleaant fucking dream!!! it is not about the content. it is about... a sense of truth. in the dream i discovered how a hugely disgusting thing i did, i is it because i was paranoid of my abusers, i projected them onto where they are not. because my body was scared for decades. i don't remember how exactly i saw it, it might have been a regular dream with my newfound clarity and absence of chronic fear. I shoukd start dream journaling again. I stopped years ago because ALL MY DREAMS WERE NIGHTMARISH no matter the content. No. Matter. The. Content. Even if i lucid dreamt, it all felt super dark and isolating. Just 10 minutes ago before i woke up, i felt super empowered! In the most boring dream ever!!!

No, you do not have bad luck. Your subconscious simply recreates bad things that the subconscious of your abuser created. It does not matter HOW exactly you were abused. At all. You just copy their whole book into yourself. Becauae your body sfill thinks that becoming just like them, makes you strong like them. And since they outpowered you back then, the only way not to prevent that from happening again is to beat them at their own game. But the only real solution is... internal emotional counterterrorism.

[There_Is_Rehab]

@thegreenyogi can you remove the replies i just made? It is is too irrelevant

[Zack-Bann]

I would say it’s the other way around.
My mind is more than ready to be done with this nightmare
But my body insists on moving at the slowest pace possible

[thegreenyogi]

Some things take time. And understandably it's not the break you wanted but maybe it's the break your body needed hence why it's taking longer for you to recover.

[Zack-Bann]

I thought about that as well
But I don’t feel rested or slowed down.
Life is still a full sprint I’m just struggling to keep up

[thegreenyogi]

It's frustrating I know. You will get there. And when you do you will be unstoppable.

[Zack-Bann]

You’re the sweetest ever

[thegreenyogi]

Count on me to give your daily dose of sweetness!! It can go a long way.

[DishLady]

It's true that very positive high-energy people who are naturally optimistic about their healing process DO tend to heal a little more quickly than others. Consequently, the implication is that if you're not ready to heal from a physical or emotional trauma you simply WON'T heal and the issue will drag out.

[sage2021]

When you have a serious illness, your body seems to have a mind of it's own no matter what your mind is trying to accomplish.

There are some things in life that we just have no control over and a serious illness is one of them.

[RCONFIGURATION1]

Yeah true because when you look at boxers they may have recovered from a knockout with their next fight they are still suffering from the scare of being knocked out so they don't fight the same. Which causes them to get knocked out again

[exitseven]

It can be true. Having a positive attitude and some faith can make a big difference in the recovery process.

[Kaneki05]

Not accurate at all at least for me, I'm always ready before my body.

[Spencer10]

Sounds reasonable. Sometimes rebuilding your confidence takes longer that healing your body

[Shiprex]

I think this is often the situation with all mental, psychological and emotional difficulties

[Cidknee]

It tried when I had a wreck and broke all four limbs. But I quickly overcome it.

[AgentG111]

Absolutely true! Push through it! Keep up the good fight!

[RedInnocent69]

It’s usually the opposite for me, but I get it

[Staximus]

I think it’s usually the other way around

[Paige2006]

Very accurate

[Anonymous]

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