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Originally Posted by Walkedthatroad
Maybe, people can share what other ways they know to heal from these deep wounds, as oppose to just putting a band-aid or tourniquet on it. I did that for years, but there was gangrene festering below the dressings. I do believe there has to be other ways, but have not heard their stories. Anyone willing to talk of the successes?
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Formal mindfulness- and insight-based meditation practice was a success for me, for a while. Eventually a series of traumatic losses plus chronic illness made it unworkable. But i think it is as powerful as anything out there. And interestingly some draw parallels with both therapy and parenting, in that you can use the observing part of consciousness to offer the other parts the sort of "quiet attunement" (as someone called it) that a parent or therapist might provide. And practicing so called choiceless awareness can be revealing.