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Regaining present moment awareness through emotions that once knocked the higher mind psychologically unconscious.
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Healing mental health is a team sport we are all responsible for own best in.
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No matter what, it's our responsibilty to stabilize ourselves first; we're all in this together.
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This website is not a substitue for professional help.
Realizing Presence is a trauma healing educational resource.
Learn what your survival system is doing and lose fear of it activating.
Develop your ability to regain control of your higher mind under stress.
Become better able to regain present moment awareness.
Because presence is what stress provokes the mind out of.
It's important to know we can heal the mind healthier.
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The body heals itself.
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Healing the mind requires our active participation.
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The good news is we can heal the mind.
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It all starts by regaining presence.
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Get really good realizing the present moment you are in, and feel even 1% better when you do.
Clicking the "CALM MY SYSTEM" button will take you to the stress calming section from any page.
Calming the stress response is the first step in recovering higher mind operation.
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Get really good at doing this, no matter where you learn it from, or the steps you use to accomplish it.
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THE SHORT ANSWER IS:
To regain present moment awareness more quickly and efficently by reducing as much uncertainty out of the experience as possible.
THE LONG ANSWER IS:
Trauma can feel mysterious, confusing and deeply personal.
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Learning about it may not remove every difficult emotion, but it can reduce uncertainty and help us recognize stress-response activation earlier.
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Imagine sitting alone when your front door suddenly opens.
Your system may immediately react:
“Who is that?”
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Now imagine a friend calls you, they ask if they can stop by, you tell them yep come on in, the door’s open. The same door opened, the response is different:
“Yep, it’s them.”
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Same door, different response.
Now understand memory and imagination activate the survival system as well.
If we're no longer surprised by something, how much better can we deal with it?
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