Elizabeth A. Stanley, just like many other people in the world, suffered trauma as a child. She was not completely aware of it until she realised that she could not see. She had a problem with her eyesight and was afraid she might go blind. When researching the possible causes of her blindness, she discovered the link between past and present, and she found that the traumas of our past speak to us in the form of illnesses. When the human body reacts, it confirms its desire to heal. Healing is not such an easy task, however, because seeking out that trauma which is hidden somewhere in our body means setting out on a long and tiring journey of discovery towards self- awareness.
Our entire human organism sends various signals, but then it is up to us to decipher them. Since the human organism is a mostly perfect machine that records and remembers everything, it is also able to record new memories to heal the old ones. After years of study and practice, Dr Stanley formulated an actual healing method that goes by the acronym MMFS, and which stands for Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training, which is an effective therapy created for people who live in constant emotional tension.
The approach is an individual and personal process carried out by continuous assessment of past and present. In fact, the only way to heal from a trauma is to find routes that lead you to identify exactly what you feel and that allow the knowledge you already have to emerge, knowledge that has always been hidden by your rational side.
A trauma can derive from big or small events, it can even come from a time your parents shouted at you with no explanation, so you never understood why it happened. What remains etched in the already fragmented memory is the unpleasant physical sensation, a contradictory emotion or an inconclusive thought. Unresolved childhood trauma causes various illnesses in adulthood.
The fact is that trauma changes our perception of reality and this becomes a problem as we enter adulthood. Most of the time we are unaware of the trauma we experienced, so we aren’t able to resolve it and we become unhappy. What is truly extraordinary, however, is that the body records everything, and it leads us to face different versions of the same dynamic to allow us to begin the healing process. Stress also plays an essential role here because it works as an activator in the body and mind.