by Matthew Zoltan, co-creator of the Undo APP

Why memory is not a thought — and why that changes everything about how trauma is healed.

There is a moment, early in my work with people, when something shifts. Not in their understanding of what happened to them, but in how they are experiencing themselves right now, in the room, as we sit together.

They stop trying to remember. And they start to feel.

Most of us have been taught, by therapy, by culture, by well-meaning people, that the path through trauma is to go back to what happened, understand it, process it, and eventually make peace with it. Tell the story often enough, the thinking goes, and we’ll stop being haunted by it.

But here is what nearly forty years of working with people has shown me: the story is not where trauma lives.

Trauma is not a memory you can recall. It is a memory your body never let go of.

What the shareholder calls say. What Congress gets told. And why the gap between those two things should concern every one of us.

Дословный перевод молитвы Отче Наш с арамейского языка, прочитайте и
почувствуйте разницу:
О, Дышащая Жизнь,
Имя Твоё сияет повсюду!
Высвободи пространство, Чтобы посадить Твоё присутствие!
Представь в Твоём воображении Твоё «Я могу» сейчас!
Облеки Твоё желание во всякий свет и форму!
Прорасти через нас хлеб и Прозрение на каждое мгновение!
Развяжи узлы неудач, связывающие нас,
Как и мы освобождаем канатные верёвки, к
оторыми мы удерживаем проступки других!
Помоги нам не забывать наш Источник.
Но освободи нас от незрелости не пребывать в Настоящем!
От Тебя возникает всякое
Видение, Сила и Песнь От собрания до собрания!
Аминь.
Пусть наши следующие действия произрастают отсюда.

– A literal translation of the Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic, read and feel the difference:

O Breathing Life,
Your Name shines everywhere!
Make room To plant Your presence!
Vision in Your mind Your “I can” now!
Clothe Your desire in every light and form!
Grow through us bread and Insight for every moment!
Untie the knots of failure that bind us,
As we untie the ropes with which we hold the misdeeds of others!
Help us not to forget our Source.
But free us from the immaturity of not being in the Now!
From You arises every Vision, Power, and Song From meeting to meeting!
Amen.
Let our next actions grow from here.

(from a private Discord server discussion).