Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness

Our body has an incredible capacity to heal. Our mind can endure any sort of pain. However, if we cloud our mind and weaken our body with denial, worries, and fears, we actually deprive ourselves of the strength we need to heal ourselves.

We suffer because we have not been touched by compassion and understanding. If we generate the energy of mindfulness, understanding, and compassion for our wounded child, we will suffer much less. When we generate mindfulness, compassion and understanding become possible, and we can allow people to love us. Before, we may have been suspicious of ev

You may not know what is causing your pain, your despair, your depression, your fear, but if you know how to hold that pain with the energy of mindfulness, you immediately get relief, because the energy of mindfulness begins to penetrate the energy of pain, of sorrow.