Healing the Wounds of Trauma
The Gentle Wind Project^®

by Mary Miller, MSW

The experience of trauma is personal. What might be experienced as deeply traumatic by one person might be felt as a less serious hurt by another. Being reprimanded by a boss can be traumatic. Arguments, especially hurtful, prolonged arguments are traumatic. The loss of a loved one is traumatic; the more sudden and unexpected the loss, the more traumatic it is. Losing a pet can be a trauma, as can losing one's job.

Being humiliated in a classroom is traumatic for most children. In fact, sometimes it is as traumatic for the children who are witnessing the humiliation as it is for the one being humiliated. Going through a divorce can be very traumatic. As couples break up their marriages, they often lose their homes. Finances can become tight, and through it all there are often children to care for.

Then there are physical traumas. Again, the experience of trauma varies from person to person. Certain kinds of dental work can be traumatic, and the impact of the trauma might last for days or weeks or even leave permanent imbalances. Car accidents or any kinds of accidents, surgeries, and various invasive medical tests and treatments all have a traumatic impact on the body.

Trauma is rarely limited to just the physical system or just the emotional system. Emotional trauma almost always causes physical imbalances, and physical trauma affects the emotional system. It is very difficult for most people to recover from a traumatic event using their own resources. Too often the effects of trauma remain in each person's system for the remainder of the person's life. Counseling or therapy can be very comforting when trauma is incurred. However, it is rarely enough to actually heal the wounds of the trauma and restore balance to a person's system.

The Gentle Wind Project^®, a non-profit international healing organization based in Maine, has studied the effects of trauma on the human consciousness, and how best to help people recover from traumatic events. The researchers have learned that trauma has a cumulative effect. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often a buildup of a series of traumas that may culminate in a single event. While the single event may bring PTSD into focus, it is usually the result of multiple traumas accumulated over many years. It is as if the consciousness naturally files similar events and experiences into the same trauma compartment, where all those events that were experienced by the person as traumatic are filed. Each time a new trauma is experienced, the entire stack of traumas is triggered.

New traumas can easily trigger old traumas that are sitting just below the surface. After the events of 9/11, psychotherapists in New York noted that patients who had been doing well experienced old fears coming back. One young boy, who had been so fearful of schoolyard bullies that he refused to go to school, was functioning fairly well at school. After 9/11, he became fearful of the bullies and had trouble going to school again.

Trauma weakens a person's system and from this weakened, imbalanced state the person attempts to recover. If you were traumatized by abusive and/or negligent parenting practices as a child, your system was permanently weakened. Each time new hurts are incurred, the system is further weakened. The new Gentle Wind Project technology for trauma repairs these weaknesses and sets in motion a process of rebuilding the person's system. When future traumas are incurred, the person's system will be stronger and more stable during difficult times.

Imagine the human consciousness as a vast energetic, electrical system. In this electrical system, there are red cables that are connected to other red cables, blue to blue, and green to green, etc. When a person has surgery, for example, these energetic cables are severed. Some reconnect properly, but often the red is connected to blue or green to yellow, causing severe imbalances that may be the underlying causes of future emotional and physical difficulties. After surgery or an accident, you may have had the feeling that you were never quite yourself afterwards.

Trauma penetrates into so many levels of the human consciousness that it takes very specific and unique energies to heal these wounds. The Gentle Wind Project^® healing technology restores the wounded areas and helps rebalance the emotional system and realign the physical system so that whatever inherent health and resources a person may possess can aid in the person's overall recovery.

The Gentle Wind Healing Instruments work on the non-physical level to restore this energetic circuitry and bring a person's system back into balance. The use of the Instruments is not intended as a substitute for responsible medical care. The Instruments are intended as a complementary technology that supports proper medical care.

The new trauma technology was utilized in southern California after the November fires. Healing Instruments were donated to Instrument Keepers in the area who set up stations at various points to offer help to families who lost their homes, rescue workers and firefighters.

Mary Miller, researcher and Co-Director of The Gentle Wind Project for 20 years, worked previously as a clinical social worker and family therapist specializing in counseling grieving parents who lost children to stillbirth, SIDS and other early childhood diseases. For more information, call 1-800-545-7847.

2/1/04