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of the Americas, Australia, and many Pacific Islands. This wisdom from within, like its Higher Consciousness source, is undivided (James, 3:17); hence, such wisdom has no religion and no nationality.
5. What Does Esotherapy say about Trauma and Other Diseases?
“The mere formulation of a problem is often far more essential than its solution.”
– Albert Einstein
Humans are but a microcosm of nature; the same elemental laws that underlie the spiritual balance and harmony of nature can cue us how to process traumatic events and heal other illnesses. Yet, rather than utilizing natural wisdom, healing sciences such as psychology, psychiatry, and medicine in general use ego-derived, man-made knowledge that confuses cause and effect.
This misperception is hard to detect only because it is widely accepted as conventional “common sense” thinking. For example, let’s reconsider depression, a common component of trauma. Conventional therapies consider depression to be a type of extreme sadness. Psychology and psychiatry take this “common sense” assumption for granted, and base many of their theories on it, although it is not a research-validated fact.
For instance, think of a time when you may have felt depressed for a significant period of time. Likely, before you came to feel disheartened, you first lost your appetite, had no interest in activities that made you happy, couldn’t get out of bed, you were unable to sleep or had restless, non-restorative sleep and felt constantly fatigued and drained of energy. This was a loss of vitality. Naturally, you became sad ABOUT the loss of vitality and the doctor prescribed you medication to dull your sadness. As a result, you may have been living a numb life that lacked vitality. Of course, to consider depression as loss of vitality or life-energy would make it a spiritual illness, which traditional forms of medicine around the world know as ”shen-losing-its-home” (Taoist-based Chinese Medicine), “will or power-
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