New age “spirituality” is retraumatizing (a somatic practitioner’s perspective)
Many of us are looking for meaning, understanding of the truth and feeling better within ourselves and in the world.
For these and other reasons new age “spirituality” is often what so many of us end up entangled with.
What I have found from my own personal experiences in new age practices and from working with clients, is that it causes damages to the nervous system, it fragments the psyche, it takes you out of your body and it puts you out of touch with reality.
Needless to say new age “spirituality” is a survival strategy.
You work hard, trying to fix yourself because of low self esteem and unworthiness issues and it only last for so long until you need the next quick fix. It’s an endless loop of self improvement, keeping you stuck feeling unwell.
My last attempt in the new age “spirituality” was with non duality meditations, trying to reach self realisation, an enlightened state. Just another attempt in becoming God, Satan’s oldest tricks. It left me suicidal, depressed and hopeless. Then when that wasn’t enough I had to get involved with new age again for a short while. And this happened after I had already gotten rid of all my new age books many years prior. It just shows how survival strategies stick around when unresolved traumas are still at play.
In the end I had to pick up all the pieces one by one and find my way back to my body, by doing real NON-new age trauma integration. Only then the real spiritual peace I was looking for my whole life revealed itself to me. Only then I could connect to God and not the distorted ideas I had of Him.
My wish is that those interested in real long-lasting healing realise that playing around with energy healing, Ayahuasca ceremonies and all sort of quick fix self-improvement methods; to take a step back and really look at the deep pain you are trying to avoid by eternally chasing unachievable goals.
Picking up the pieces is not easy, as the pain has been avoided for too long, but it’s totally worth it.
