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You can, for example, change your mind with meditation and mindfulness. This means, you go into meditation and find your place of stillness. This can happen just by thinking nothing or by following a breathing pattern (like Inhale for 4 counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, and repeat) or by just following your natural breath. Or if you don’t like to focus on breathing, focus on a mantra like ‘I love myself’ or ‘love is all we are’. Whatever makes sense to you. While you are doing this in your meditation, there will be thoughts arising. There might be thoughts of trauma, or somehow related to the trauma as it changed your brain to think a certain way. Just put the thoughts that are coming up aside without judgment and gently return to your meditation. Go back to your breathing or to your mantra or simply to your place of stillness in your meditation. 

In meditation you can rewire your brain to respond less to stress and trauma triggers. Over time, it helps you to reduce the automatic reactions the brain has to traumatic memories and forms new circuits in your brain that create a space you can use to actually create something in this world. 

Instead of going into meditation you can also change your trauma with your mind by visualizing a place of positive experience very time your trauma comes up. In this moment, picture yourself free from trauma in a state of safety and peace. See yourself moving through the world without trauma in a loving and safe place without fear and only happiness and joy. The more you do it, the better you can rewire your brain to form new circuits. 

There are many other forms to rewire your brain to become free of trauma. These are just two examples that might help you as a start. Contact me for more information if you are interested.