A common myth around awakening - ein allgemeiner Mythos über das Erwachen (Angelo Dilullo)
One of the most common myths around awakening is the belief that it will erase pain, heal all wounds, or make difficult emotions disappear. But a wakening doesn’t remove trauma. Instead, it gives it nowhere to hide. In reality, the opposite may happen. As patterns of suppression, avoidance, and identity begin to loosen, unresolved conditioning may surface more clearly and intensely. Not because anything has gone wrong, but because there is less in the system left to push it away. Before this shift, there is usually a subtle but constant movement away from direct experience: • thinking about emotions instead of fully feeling them • managing fear instead of meeting it directly • escaping shame through distraction or thought • building identity structures as a buffer to feel safe from what is happening But when the sense of a separate “me” begins to soften, experience is no longer filtered or buffered in the same way. Fear is simply full on fear. Grief is simply full on grie...
