The phenomenon of numbness, the ability to switch off and dissociate feelings when encountering overload, is central to the trauma process. And it is crucial to the healing of trauma, the collective trauma healing work, and plays a role in human development. Numbness is not nothing. Numbness is an active process of not feeling. Which means numbness needs energy. The numb parts in myself, the dissociated parts, take energy. It's a doing, it's not a being. That's not our natural state. Our natural state is to be connected to life, feeling and sensing is our natural state.
I can develop in my own inner work a more precise presencing method, that when I notice that I'm numb, I'm noticing already something. So when I stay with not feeling and I can precisely meet myself in not feeling, my awareness merges with that process. And in the moment that I become one with the process of numbing, I bring light into that part of my body ...
From: Principles of Collective Healing, [ Ссылка ]
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