Healing trauma through presence.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions about healing from childhood trauma.

He says it is important to acknowledge the trauma and to work through it, but not to get stuck in it.

He believes that while we may feel like a victim, it is not ultimately who we are.

Eckhart shares stories about his own childhood trauma. He explains that his

father had intense anger issues and abandoned Eckhart and his mother when he was just 11 years old.

As an adult, Eckhart later realized that his father had been traumatized by his own childhood.

He says dysfunctional family patterns are handed down generation after generation.

And he says healing happens when we break the cycle and that by practicing presence,

we realize we're more than all the painful things we have experienced.

I think this is something many people will relate to.

The person writes in,

How can I overcome childhood traumas related to my parents

and earliest experiences that I can clearly see are affecting my life today?

Right.

Trauma would be some significant form of suffering that happened to you as a child, which is

not uncommon. The question is, how does this trauma manifest in your present life and in the present moment?

How does it diminish your enjoyment of life, your experience of the present moment?

How does it bring about perhaps even dysfunctional behavior in you?

And then if you look at it closely, you can see it exists in you

as probably an emotional field that I call it the pain body.

It gets triggered.

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