Healing Is The Mind Avoiding Its Own Death | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

2 months ago

You’ve been told a beautiful lie about spiritual awakening and trauma healing. The lie says you were once whole, then shattered. So now you seek a journey back to self to find that original, undamaged you. Sounds nice. But a baby isn’t whole—it’s hunger and rage. You were never broken because you were never a fixed thing. This inner child work obsession is the mind’s trick. Let’s get this straight: you are not a broken vase. You are a process. A river. A storm of biology and social conditioning. Healing trauma isn’t returning to a perfect past; it’s dissolving the one who was hurt. Drop the narrative. Letting go of your trauma story isn’t cruel—it’s reality. What is mindfulness? Seeing that the “you” who feels broken is just a thought. Non-duality says: the screen is never scratched by t