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Realizing Presence Coming Soon

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A peer support website designed to help recover the mind from the future / past and Realize Presence again. 

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Realizing Presence

Welcome to Realizing Presence

Hi, my name is Andy Lightfoot, and I'm making this website to ultimately provide whoever finds it with tools to help you calm the racing mind back into this present moment, regardless of where it ran off to, learn to deperrsonalize the fact that your stress response activated in the first place, 


I'm building whatever it is God is driving me to build here, and I am. What it is I'm building will continue improving and evolving, and I'm grateful for this life opportunity to do something cool like this, and I'm grateful for you stopping by. No matter what it's always gonna be now, even when, or back then. It 's always now, right now, and this is what I want you to see without the need for this website or anything else. 


I am including peer support materials I've discovered and created healing from trauma. I have so much material written it feels overwhelming to me, so I'm building this website as a place to share it. As for now I'm populating fields with the best videos I can find to introduce you to the subjects. I'll continue adding, refining, shaping and creating what you're seeing. 


Nothing here is medical advice, its all my opinion, from my own perspective,and experiences, and I have orchastrated this website to share the benefical things I have gained and the lessons I have learned about the experience of healing through and from a Severe case of PTSD, that I developed through the years of my invincible youth forensically processing crime scenes on top of working law enforcement patrol, department administrative pressures, compounded by a toxic home environment.  


Looking back, I pushed the bounds of my own tolerance to withstand the emotions I was  experiencing forensically processing crime scenes in order to toughen what I saw as the weak part out of myself, and create contrast between work and home life, and I subconsciously reasoned that no matter how much I was dealing with at home I would feel a sense of relief, so the more I experienced the more of a contrast in releif I would experience.. This was highly traumatized thinking and operation that I was experiencing, it makes no logical sense, and this is because the higher functioning part of my brain / mind, the PreFrontal Cortex was not working.


Think of the PreFrontal Cortex going off line as the psychological equivalent of the 



Breathing pattern to reduce stress in real time

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My name is Andy Lightfoot, I am on a lifelong journey healing from Complex PTSD, and I'm building this website as a place for anyone labor of love to make navigating healing through and  from trauma as easy as I possibly can for everyone who finds this website. Everything about this website is a work in progress, including myself.  


I am not a medical or mental healthcare professional, nothing I say is medical advice, and everything I tell you is my opinion from my own perspective.  


I am making the most helpful peer support resource I can think for anyone dealing with psychological truama, healing from psychological trauma, and/or supporting another human being dealing with psycholgical trauma. No matter what, we're all in this together. 


Searching for instrctions about anything on the internet can feel triggering in itself, I've been healing . 


Understanding trauma as something we may or may not happen to be dealing with can already feel triggering, I decided it is a good idea to build a website designed to help any and everyone who finds it be able to more efficently navigate healing through and from psychological truma, which is ultimately trauma remembered., from the guidance of those who can help me know more.  


All the things I'm sharing are universal rights of humanity. I'm correlating information to point you to the truth I see, and for you to decide for yourSelf. I will cover topics from better recognizing stress response activation and taking countermeasures to deactivate it, to the endocrine system, nervous system, psyche, hunter gather tribal survival genetics, ego / Self, quantum physics, the solidity of all physical matter, etc. I hope for you to realize the sense of enlightenment everyone is, and be able to do so through the realizations your're able to gain here.


I had an overwhelming amount of typewritten content on the site, but recently began cleaning it all up to make it more user friendly. We can only help people get to where we have gotten ourselves, so it's up to us to make the best of our journeys in doing it. 


I'm allowing creativity to flow as I develop each section. I'm writing about the healing process I've experienced, to help demystify as much about treatment as I know how to. Going into mental health treatment was a scary experience for me. I had reached my breaking point, I needed help, and still I was reluctant to ask for it. 


I want this website to allow you to gain a sense of confidence approaching and dealing with mental healthcare professionals, realizing that just like you and I, they are still people too, and we're all going through our individual journeys together.  


While this website may provide helpful resources, it's no substitute for competent mental healthcare. To give you some perspective I rely on competent professional mental healthcare and I created this website.


Regardless if someone can afford world class care, or if they're living homeless and boosting internet access from the local donut shop, we’re all particles of God's light, and information exists for all of us to use for ourselves to heal healthier no matter what our current life condition happens to be.


I'm snapping out of a long term freeze response and building this thing. I invite you to stick with me on the journey I am taking building this website. I hope to transform it into something special that serves whoever forever. I am grateful I am getting to have this life opportunity building it. I don't have anything for sale on here,. 


I just want to help people, including myself. This is me putting on my lifemask in the interim, even making donatons an option, and I feel settled in doing it. Meaning the better I build this website, the more it genuinely helps people, the more likely I will be to make a living with it, and devote more time creating it. 

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Recovering From Trauma

Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

If you have PTSD, it's not a matter of if your mind goes to a dark place, it's a matter of when, how intensely, and for how long. And it's also a matter of recovering conscious control of our mind when it goes there, and rescuing it. 


We must rescue our own mind in this scenario, and we can do it. It very much helps to have others around w

If you have PTSD, it's not a matter of if your mind goes to a dark place, it's a matter of when, how intensely, and for how long. And it's also a matter of recovering conscious control of our mind when it goes there, and rescuing it. 


We must rescue our own mind in this scenario, and we can do it. It very much helps to have others around who realize presence and can hold an anchored state of presence for you to join them in. 


  know what's going on and understand how to help you recover out of flashback, but ultimately its you doing the work of regaining higher mind operation and awareness after stress charges shut them off.


 Sometimes our perceptive awareness gets stuck, psychologically stumbling around in emotionally charged memories that feel so real, we lose track of the fact they are memories in the first place. 


Trauma produces the feeling of shame, however the paradox is, there is no shame in trauma. This doesn't prevent the biological feelings produced to knock our perceptive awareness into unconscious survival based operation. 


I've dealt with, recovered from, and will always be recovering from lots of psychological trauma from processing crime scenes. However, no matter how extreme the examples I can provide, the system we're dealing with is the same. 


Lots of people deal with psychological trauma to some degree, but most are afraid of ever talking about it, due to the fear of death by tribal rejection for being perceived as weak. 


Recovering from trauma comes with a profound realization that no matter what, nothing in our minds can kill us, it only feels like it can. 


Once we're able to demystify some of the happenings in the mind, we're able to transcend through the mind, observe it, and heal from the turmoil it's created. . 


What we can do is break our perceptive awareness out of places it had been stuck in, even if it had been stuck there so long it became familiar and somehow uncomfortably comfortable. 


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Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

The toughest question I've ever been asked was in Intensive OutPatient PTSD treatment, and the question was, "Who am I?" without any titles, accomplishments, stories, etc, who am I? 


This question got the wheels turning, but I was unable to answer it until well after therapy, however in order to answer the question, "Who am I?" I had to fi

The toughest question I've ever been asked was in Intensive OutPatient PTSD treatment, and the question was, "Who am I?" without any titles, accomplishments, stories, etc, who am I? 


This question got the wheels turning, but I was unable to answer it until well after therapy, however in order to answer the question, "Who am I?" I had to first answer the question, "What am I?" 


The answer came to me after diving into  lessons about quantum physics geared for the layman, Realizing the essence of Albert Einstein's famous equation E=Mc2. 


The calculation E=Mc2 takes much more into consideration than I know how to calculate, but it takes into consideration the physical makeup of our smallest physical building blocks, atoms. Inspecting them from the subatomic level. 


Atoms are too small to be seen with the naked eye, however we were able to make one large enough to inspect and we were able to freeze time, we would see they are made of almost nothing, as our physical senses perceive physical matter. 


Atoms, are physically made of tiny bits of energy known as protons, neutrons, and electrons. The protons are positively charged, neutron are neutrally charged and act as the glue that holds the protons in a bundle, creating the positively charged nucleas of the atom, and electrons are negatively charged bits of energy that orbit the nucleus.


Okay, now that 11th grade science is passed, what does any of this mean, and how does it apply to me in my everyday life?


 If what we perceive as physical matter is not actually physical at all, then what is it, and who am I realizing and observing it all?


This comes down to a realization of ourselves in operation of it all. The mind derives a sense of self identity somewhere, and the easiest place to find something to grasp onto the what we perceive in our physical world, including the bodies of ourselves, the cars we drive, the house we live in, how much money we have, etc. the possibilities are endless, and ultimately all empty. 


We've never actually experienced the past or the future, it seems like we have, but it was all the mind working from the starting location of the present moment. 


We are none of these things in the physical world, and can never be, however that does not prevent the mind from reaching for them as an answer, even a temporary answer,  until it can figure out a more clear and definitive answer of where to derive a sense of self identify from. 


We are not our trauma, we are not our story, and we are not who we were yesterday. We all have a past, and stories from it, but we are present, and we are not the future. We can direct our present moment actions to align with what and who we would like to be in the future, but once we get there it will be this same present moment we experience it from.  


Our universe is made of energy and matter, we are in space and time in it, we have an inner world and an outer world.  Our only job is realizing this.



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Attaining our own personal best

Realizing ourSelves as a stand alone entity to any trauma remembered

Attaining our own personal best

Knowing all of this, we can consciously direct the orchestration of physical matter in our outer world to align with what we consciously realize within. 


This all comes from an understanding, and will power shuts it down, with the essence of collapsing the wave into particle. 


Our own personal best is something we can all attain, and when w

Knowing all of this, we can consciously direct the orchestration of physical matter in our outer world to align with what we consciously realize within. 


This all comes from an understanding, and will power shuts it down, with the essence of collapsing the wave into particle. 


Our own personal best is something we can all attain, and when we do we merely take the actions we know can produce it, trust ourselves, and experience it happen.. 


What we can do is create the circumstances that make it possible and more probable that our personal best happens, and  show up ready and willing to participate in it. 


Once we can see something inside we can do it outside. 


The mind likes to sharply reject this, and it's important to understand that the organism producing this thought stream is the same organ that produces the thought stream of, "I've gotta see it to believe it" all while remaining unaware that humans can see less than half of one percent of the electromagnetic spectrum, .about 0035% according to science. 


There's so much more going on than our senses can perceive, and we can move beyond out senses to work with it. All outer change begins from within. 


If we're performing a task, it's important to observe ourselves in action of it, not just physically, but psychologically and emotionally. 


Does the idea of someone else's approval and praise come to mind while we're working? if so, this is production at best, and not creativity. 


Creativity happens from within and where our personal best comes from. There is no comparison between you and anyone else who has ever lived. 


Realize the minds natural compulsion to place ourselves in comparison with anyone else as tribal based thinking. When we realize yourself as a stand alone entity to all else, and focus on each action you're taking in the expression of whatever you choose to do with this power you possess.


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Resources (so far)

Here are a list of resources you can follow up on / with
Demystifying and healing from TraumaBreathing pattern to reduce stressAttaining our own personal bestFirst Responder / Military trauma healingAttachment style healing and developmentInterview with Dr. Kazimarez Dabrowski explaining Positive DisintegrationPresence PresenceFight Flight Freeze Fawn - stress responsesUnderstanding and recovering from addictionUnderstanding narcissismRealizing ourselves in the quantum fieldPositive DisintegrationNeuroplasticity "Rewiring" CodependencyDeveloping The Archetypes Of the Collective unconsciousSensory Processing Sensitivity / HSPJoseph Campbell
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