When there is a single, intense, unpleasant moment in our lives, it can cause trauma. That negative experience gets imprinted in us. It affects how we see many other things in our lives, and sometimes how we see everything in our lives. It becomes the world we live in.
This can be the moment you found out the level of corruption in a government or other body, the moment you realised and felt in your bones just how disconnected we are from nature, the moment you came across some information that completely overturned a narrative you had believed to be so true that you weren’t even aware it was a narrative.
But seeing everything from a single point of view can compound our suffering. We become narrow minded, inflexible when new information and ideas arrive, and often more emotionally reactive.
We even fight for this traumatized perspective to be right. It can define us as we identify with it. If someone offers a different perspective, rather than being able to consider it, the effects of the trauma cause us to dig our heels in more, saying things like “you don’t understand, look at what they did, look at this evidence!”
Our perspective becomes more important than any other not because it is more valid, but because we feel more emotional about it. And why shouldn’t we? There is so much that can be viewed as being wrong in the world, so much corruption that can be unveiled, so much that the general public is not told about, so much that we are forced to submit to. Rage and fight are understandable, they are what is emotionally true in that moment.
When others don’t even see the things we’ve woken up to, that emotion gets even stronger because the extent of the brainwashing becomes even more apparent, the separation from others and the world we used to live in expands like a chasm.
Yet that single perspective is mirroring the single, oversimplified narrative that we are being sold. It is one sided, sure of its correctness and ridiculing of other perspectives. It is a fault that is particularly prevalent in the modern world. That is, to apply a single, big, solution to any problem. Got cancer? Kill it! Crime in an area? Increase police! Couldn’t break a bad habit? Just try harder!
Indigenous and ancient wisdom seems to have a greater focus on understanding nuances and taking into account multiple perspectives and factors. It seems to be more about conversation and working the problem, making small gradual changes which solves problems long term and causes less collateral damage.
It seems that in most cases, beginning to heal the trauma is the first step. As the trauma is healed, as the imprint of that moment loosense, we can begin to see things from a greater perspective not by force, but by natural evolution.
These other perspectives are then their own form of medicine. Each perspective is also its own world. As we enter this stage of the healing process, we can begin to actively seek other ways of viewing the moment of impact, we become travelers of multiple worlds, experiencing the culture and atmosphere of each. This can then lessen the trauma even more as we’re not so attached to one thing, and now we’re in an upward spiral. I encourage you to seek empowering and wise perspectives.
From a spiritual perspective, we could say that Source sees everything, is everything etc. Therefore, by encompassing multiple perspectives, we begin to be more like Source. We begin to be less traumatized, emotionally reactive, low consciousness people. We begin to see the perfection in the chaos, the good in the apparently bad, and curiosity, open mindedness and compassion come forth.
That is true medicine.