When I have had flashbacks, I found that what was happening is that my brain was showing me how it was injured.

I realized that what I needed to do is take a moment and say, in my mind, ok, yes that did happen, yes I remember now. ACKNOWLEGEMENT.

Now whats the next step? Well, ok, I got through it back then. HOW I HANDLED IT BACK THEN, MENTALLY HANDELED THE INCIDENT.

Ok, now what do it do next? IT IS NOT HAPPENING NOW

OK, THAT TAKES TIME TO REALIZE, OH, YES, I REALIZE IT NOW.

What comes next? I knodd a lot, and say ok, yes, and then I look at where I am and what that means is that it is not there, no, it is here.

So what does that mean? What that means is that you are slowly working on allowing the BRAIN INJURY to slowly start to ASSOCIATE to now.

Before, we DISASSOCIATED, so the BRAIN INJURY did not heal.

If you can close your eyes and think of your brain. Whenever a brain learns something new, it starts to SLOWLY make a pathway to remembering what it is learning. Now, this pathway takes time and the only way it can really get STRONG is by PRACTICING the new knowledge.

Every single thing that you have ever learned has been learned this way.
All the good and all the bad. Every time you walk, a long time ago that took practice and you re-enforce it every day you walk. Now you walk without really thinking about every step.

This is how you heal a BRAIN INJURY. It is learning how to ASSOCIATE to what is going on NOW. Just like everything else we learn or learn to do, we practice it over and over until our brain forms a complete connection so we don't have to think about every part of what we learned.

Think about your shoe laces. Remember how it took time to learn how to tie your shoes? You had to practice it slowly and think about how it is done, now, you can tie your shoes and you dont have to do that step by step. You don't have to concentrate on each and every little detail of tieing a shoe lace.

Now, I took a dog who could not walk anymore, could not even pick up her head. It was considered a hopeless case, only no one had ever tried to see. I can tell you, with a LOT of patience and time, I worked at it and I GOT THAT DOG TO WALK FREELY AGAIN.

Dont under-estimate the brain. THE BRAIN IS A MARVELOUS THING

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