In his most recent book, Never Finished, David Goggins explains the principle of distracting injuries, which in emergency response are essentially injuries that seem to call for our immediate attention, yet which in fact can distract medical professionals from less apparent and far more life-critical injuries and conditions that if not given precedence in treatment can lead to system failure, or death.
Similarly, we as human beings often struggle with what can be termed “distracting injuries,” and these are the stories and narratives of suffering and abuse that we recall and affirm. When we do so, we not only perpetuate our own pain and suffering, but we continue to live in the past while perpetuating it into the future by failing to deal with, address, heal and correct what in reality needs immediate attention in the present so that we can actually move forward and progress beyond persistent suffering.
When we experience and internalize pain and suffering, we develop what can be termed trauma. When trauma is not processed and healed by doing what needs to be done in the present, we not only fail to heal, but we perpetuate the very conditions that continue to cause us suffering.
Hence, it is essential to heal from trauma and to focus on the here and now with the will to correct our current set of circumstances. This takes spiritual development and maturation, and ultimately the transcendence of suffering which results from the self.
To learn more about healing from debilitating trauma, please refer to the Course in Spiritual Healing.
To your divine and eternal success.
