#5. Trauma Drama Part 1

I’m bringing this up early because it was one of my first exposures to psychic phenomena. I probably had an excuse to bring it into the second entry, but I think it deserves more attention than that.  You may have heard stories about people who have suffered through some sort of severe psychological and physical trauma, and then came out of it with special anomalous and paranormal talents.  I remember when I first heard this.  It was first or second grade, I can’t remember because I had the same teacher both years, but I was the oldest in class and I took that position seriously for some reason, so I tried paying attention to all of the people around me so I could watch them catch up to me. I enjoyed getting to see people move forward.  One day, a story came up about someone who just instinctively knew something, and the students began asking the teacher psychic themed questions.  Eventually she let slip the correlation between trauma and psychic powers, and the coming week was a psychological disaster.  This was the first time I ever saw people on the playground fighting over who had it worse.  The brunt of it only lasted a week, but growing up with them, and by observing my own behavior, I noticed a lasting effect of that conversation, like everyone was a little more willing to seek out trauma.  Trauma is not something one should stimulate purposefully.  I support accepting challenges, but one should never seek out becoming a victim.  I say that because it’s hard to recognize when one is making the choice to hurt or be negative. But I shift my focus from one to you when I say that If your challenge overtakes you, stay positive.  If you find that you have an opportunity to make yourself the victim somehow, it’s really a chance to make yourself the opposite, that’s the healthy way to approach things, that’s everyone’s goal, and it’s okay that it’s difficult because the only people who can see it are those who already found themselves past it.  Your problems can only hurt you if you let them, and if you do let them or if it’s not in your control, you still can get to the bottom of why that’s happening, and use your brain to approach your imposing problems.  There are really very few things that you should allow yourself to become upset over, once you’re an adult.  I will give you an example in a later entry of why a mature level of inner peace is of grave importance to anyone hoping to achieve any psychic prowess, if my experience carries any weight.