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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 1, 24th April 2020

neglected environment and being part of a under stress, it prepares for fight, flight or
dysfunctional family has its own positive freeze reaction, which in turn releases two
and negative effects. During all the eighteen stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol.
years of my stay at home, whenever I felt When these hormones are persistently
discomfort surrounding me and dangers released into our bloodstream and a child
approaching, I could feel my heartbeat rising is constantly in stress for years together, it
and my breath growing shallow. It was at impairs his immune system and eventually
those moments that I would rush to my room results in various heart, lungs and liver
and stand before the Mother’s photo that diseases of which cancer is most common.
hung above my bed and cry, praying, “Ma, Psychology only points out these issues
please whatever happens let me keep my and temporarily engages with therapies
balance, I don’t want to lose my mind,” and and management programmes like stress
cry again. Or at other times when everything management which only reduces stress
else seemed to fail because I had no adult momentarily but doesn’t actually pull it
support, I would grip the Mother’s blessing out by its roots.
packet in my palm and pray hard even
though my hands trembled and fear shook This is when spirituality comes to our
me through my backbone. rescue because it delves deeper than the
mind and touches the core of man. It gives
After 18 years of grappling with toxic energies, practical solutions to human problems,
it was only when I ran away from home and enlightens us with that knowledge which
found shelter at the Ashram boarding school, has already been written down, about how
at Mother’s lap, did my new life begin. to walk on the path of yoga to reach the
From 2017 onwards I met so many people Divine. It is only by offering our lives to the
from the fields of psychology, healing and Divine can we feel at peace because if one
spirituality and discovered that opening up understands the root cause of a disease, it often
about childhood trauma is not a taboo, but a occurs from toxic energies accumulated
necessity to heal and eventually help others over the years. These energies generally
going through it to heal as well. I learnt so attacks one organ like the heart, liver, lungs
much about myself, about both the positive or any other part of the body, weakens it
and negative effects that these experiences and settles down there until the birth of a
had in me, about my surroundings, about disease. So instead of treating a disease like
people and human behaviour. And as I am a cancer only on medical grounds, doctors
psychology student, I found my experiences need to delve deeper to understand what
relatable, but again what struck me was the underlying causes are of it. These
that psychology only offered a number of toxic energies can be removed from the
theories which dissected human behaviour body if one practises spirituality, for his
and made it painfully relatable but it didn’t preconceived ideas and past beliefs will
have solutions or methods to uproot them then change and grow towards light. What
permanently. For example, any form of spirituality does to man is that it changes,
childhood trauma causes stress because purifies and uplifts all his being towards
the body is a survival machine so when the Divine.

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