How Ancient Spiritual Teachings helped me

The way we look at things and feel about certain situations can change as soon as we take the time to reconnect with our true Self, with our Soul. That is the part of our being that is eternal and can help us heal more than many know. From this higher perspective, in alignment with higher Divine Consciousness, we receive a new understanding. We receive the necessary divine support to heal emotional pain.

Ok, now I hear you asking: what does this have to do with PTSD that you mention in the title?

Many people have told me to separate my website about PTSD from my spiritual teachings website. But the truth, which already Dr. David R. Hawkins has explained in his precious books, is this: PTSD and spirituality are deeply connected, because a person can heal with greater ease and feel better when walking the spiritual path with care.

Here is what I learned:

Certainly, from a human perspective, PTSD is more than one burden, and based on my own experiences in this lifetime, I could write a book about the years of living with it. But what would be the point of writing a book about suffering? That would certainly not serve anybody. I find it much more intelligent to share what helped me.

Yes, at a certain point in my life, I began looking for answers, asking the question everybody with certain traumatic experiences asks: why? Humans call those kinds of traumatizing situations “unfair” and terrible. And yes, now there are laws that are supposed to protect children, so there is hope for them.

But at the end of the day, sooner or later in life, you still sit there and ask, “Why did God / Divine Source allow this to happen?” Oh yes, that one question can become a serious quest; and in seeking answers, I searched inside all kinds of different books through libraries from different continents and cultures. And when you read spiritual teachings from different continents and cultures, you discover that they have more things in common than mass consciousness, which is often focused on separation, will admit.

While my ego was looking for answers to calm down that bitter feeling of unfairness, anger, and pain, the answer I found in the ancient spiritual teachings was radical. It took me several days to fully process it, and then it gave me a deep sense of relief. These words are words I will never forget, because that answer is valuable not only for me, but for all those who are seeking healing and are open to expanding their perspective.

The answer I found explained something that changed my perspective in a humbling way. It explained this: We do not know what we did to others in past incarnations. Many have open karma with others, and those kinds of things may have to do with unresolved karmic debts. You can see this pattern in every history book that tells the many stories of wars around the world.

The thing is this: In the culture and country I grew up in, nobody was talking about reincarnation. Our education was based on a God who punishes, who judges you, with a love that is conditional. Feeling afraid, unworthy, ashamed, and guilty is part of the limiting beliefs that become engraved in your consciousness from early childhood.

And that “be good, be kind” consciousness does not serve you as an adult at all. It gives you a self-image that is limited and small, and often life will reflect that scarcity.

The good news is that we can move away from those limiting beliefs. The good news is that we can learn and expand into a more loving understanding of God, into a Divine Source that loves us unconditionally — a place where we are welcome and blessed, without a long list of conditions.

Those who grow up in an environment and culture where everybody believes in and talks about reincarnation from early childhood see the laws of karma as normal and natural. And people then deal with certain traumatic experiences in a totally different way than we are used to. This difference in how people deal with, respond to, and talk about the same experiences from a different perspective is where it gets interesting.

And I have to admit, the more I learned about that, the more relief and inner peace I found; to a point where I was able to let go and step into acceptance.

Growing up in an environment where people neither talk about nor believe in the laws of reincarnation, the way we are taught to cope with and react to certain events also influences how we process certain experiences. And for many years, I did not find peace or relief in what people around me told me I was supposed to feel or think about certain experiences. And what they preached gave many people neither healing nor a sense of relief.

But when I learned about reincarnation, the journey of the Soul, and the laws of karma, things somehow started making a lot more sense to me. It opened a new perspective and a healing space for me: one that allowed me to let go. And is this not what matters most, that we find that one key for ourselves (even if for others it may not be their truth), so that we can let go, heal, and finally move forward?

And this is how the final healing steps for PTSD can gently bring us onto the spiritual path: the path back home into higher Divine Consciousness.

Because when everything else does not give us peace and does not allow us to let go, this path can help us find that inner healing. It also helps us reach that sacred inner place where we reconnect with our Soul and can finally lay our ego, its desires, and its illusions aside. This is where lasting inner peace truly begins.

Again, I can only share what I learned and what helped me. I certainly do not claim to have found the “truth”. What I found was my personal truth. And I share it so that it may help others on their path, as encouragement, as inspiration, and as motivation.

With Love, Jeanne

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