LH: Chapter Nine

A small excerpt from chapter 9,

The Residue of Tauma: Learned Helpplessness

When individuals believe they have lost control, they might disengage from the decision-making processes. Others will fight to the death because they don’t feel they have anything else to lose. These are opposite ends of the same issue. How does one find their way back to their truth, their center? Escaping with disempowering coping mechanism can become a habit (mainly trying to get some relief) from the inner tension that is building. Disengaging strips an individual of the practice required to develop and continue self-agency, reinforcing the dependency on external forces to dictate their lives, and reliance on disempowering coping mechanisms. I often notice this type of disengagement as an invasion of different energies within an individual’s energy field. I can tell they are just trying to “get through” the day.