Written by Mathew Naismith
What a daunting few days I have had, got
myself involved in a group discussion explaining labelling people toxic is
toxic within itself, it's advisable to break this cycle of pain and abuse. I
supported another person in this and it didn't go down well with a few people
who are obviously in a lot of pain.
It's amazing how we don't realise how when
in pain, we inadvertently continue the cycle of pain and abuse. Trying to
explain this to people who are obviously bitter is daunting, there is no way
they were going to accept this so they themselves became quite abusive. This
topic was always going to be a touchy subject to discuss, the pain involved was
quite overwhelming. I don't mean just the pain of past or present trauma, I
mean the pain to realise you are yourself continuing the pain by being abusive
yourself to others. You are in away continuing the cycle of abuse and pain,
this is daunting for anyone to accept.
If the pain has created an inner bitterness
within yourself, the realisation of yourself continuing this cycle becomes even
more unacceptable. Imagine bitterly hating the abuser who gave you this pain in
the first place and accepting you too are of this abusive cycle. It got to a
point where these people would talk to each other while downing me on my own post. They didn't even think
that continuingly downing people between themselves on someone else post, was
unbecoming in any sense. They were totally oblivious to themselves continuing
on with the abusive cycle they themselves were subjected to, this was even
after being informed of what they were doing. The type of abuse doesn't matter,
abuse is abuse, if this cycle isn't broken, it will indeed turn a person very
bitter.
We also explained about how acting the
victim is only going to lead to more pain, it's advisable to drop feeling the
victim and get on with life void of making the pain from trauma even worse. Is
trauma really worth this much energy? Trauma takes enough out of us already but
we then give it even more time and energy by acting the victim.
I explained about how my own abuse didn't
lead me to label my abusers toxic, this infuriated them because it seemed I was
in competition with their own traumatic pain. There was too much ongoing pain
which has lead to these people becoming quite bitter. The real problem then
revealed itself, I was a man seemingly trying to compete and overlord these
women, no matter what I said I was not going to make any difference. The other
person involved in this was also a male. After talking with a male and a female
privately, we all concurred there was a lot of male hating going on here as
well. I learnt so much from this encounter and it would seem so did a number of
other onlookers/observers.
I wrote the following post for this group
to try to help in the healing process in regards to what we presently
discussed. Going through trauma is painful enough, realising you have been
continuing on with this trauma by acting the victim is even worse. We all
should try to break the cycle of pain, desisting in playing the victim is a
good start to this.
The
Pain of Ascension/Transition
Talking
with other people privately, there is a consensus that there is a lot of pain
within this group, of course within any group, especially a large group, there
is going to be pain. For any group situation to work out, it's for the benefit
of the group to work through this.
This
reality that we are transcending from is quite painful, more painful to some
than others. In the west, we think going through a painful abusive relationship
is the worse, people born in war torn countries who have everything taken from
them, including family members, would think we are living in heaven. Could you imagine
having your children taken from you to be used as sex objects? Imagine being
powerless to do anything about this!!
The
point is, to successfully work through this we must first stop being the victim
of these circumstances, all that being the victim does is create more pain and
to an extreme, create inner bitterness.
How
many people believe and act the victim of this reality? Transition pains are
bad enough, adding to this by thinking your a victim of circumstance, is only
going to add to this pain.
Are
we truly victims? Actually yes, victims of our own actions of being and acting
the victim, this is all. I'm in a country that has never seen war within the
country itself in my lifetime, why would I act the victim in any circumstance?
The
funny thing is, even if I was in a war torn country, I don't think I would
still act the victim, I would hopefully work with what I have which is life
itself as millions of people in the world do.
The
pain of ascension can be made a lot easier on ourselves, it's really up to us.
It's really not advisable to blame other people and the reality itself for this
pain, this all rests with you.
Freeing ourselves form pain will take us to
firstly realise we are playing the victim, only then can we stop the cycle of
abuse and pain in the world today......