Trigger Points

Trigger points. Our bodies have them and so do our minds. Physical trigger points are micro traumas induced by the weight of every day life, hard training and other activities . Mental trigger points are emotional traumas that have been imprinted deep within our mind and soul. Both types are painful and both can cause harm long after the original trauma has passed. Physically we can workout these trigger points with a skilled body worker or other means of self massage and healing. Mentally we are not quite so lucky. Even a highly trained therapist will often first and foremost concentrate on the cause of the trauma and only after it's uncovered will they approach healing. From a more holistic, meditative approach it doesn't matter the how or the why of the trauma - only are recognition of the trigger point in the present moment and it's release. This is where meditation and forgiveness both prove so healing. Meditation will allow us to passively uncover and then witness the trigger point and forgiveness then allows the healing. Of course we will often become entwined within the emotional fabric of our pain and this is where a trained meditation leader, or emotional healer can help keep us on track. The object of meditation is to return us always to the anchor that holds us to the present moment - healing does not take place in the past but only in the now - and so we practice again and again to return to this moment. And then we forgive. Who do we forgive? Everyone and everything - ourselves included. This is so often the hardest part of healing as we identify strongly with our wounds that forgiving others would seem to strip us of our very identity - and it would - for we are not the judge nor the jury that sits and condemn the past and what's left behind. No - we are much more and much larger than that. We are Divine. And to claim our Divinity we must forgive no matter how difficult it may be or how horrendous the wound against us may be. We forgive to free ourselves from the past and to cut the ties that bind us to our pain. Forgiveness is between us and God - never truly between us and another.
So we witness through the breath of our awareness (meditation) and we forgive to free ourselves from pain. It's a process. It takes time. It's worth it.

Peace,
Eric