I was listening to this incredible interview with Dr. Gabor Maté who is a therapist and expert on trauma.
He was recounting an experience of being in the Peruvian rain forest with a group of 23 other doctors who had come for a healing experience with shamans.
The shamans thought that the doctors, being healers themselves, would be an easy task.
In fact, it was more difficult because these Western doctors had absorbed the trauma energy of their patients and did not clear it out.
The result was a density of dark energy.
For so many of us who work with populations that need healing and care, the burn-out rate is incredible.
We know that we need to “put our own oxygen mask on” etc, but how much more seriously might we do things like meditation, yoga and self-care if we knew that we were actively releasing and clearing out trauma that we had absorbed from others?
Human beings are exquisite at picking up the energy of others.
For those of us in the helping professions, how might we take care of ourselves if we realize that we’re holding and absorbing trauma that does not belong to us?
You don’t get a medal for suffering or burn-out.
As helpers, we hold space, we absorb energy and we need to find a way to release it because it is not ours.
