How can we use PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) for our benefit?
Bashar: `You always have to remember that people make certain choices to experience certain things and they will not necessarily change that until they feel that they’ve gotten out of it what they came to get out of it. So, you can’t just say ‘well it’s this, and it can be used this way for everyone in every situation’, you always have to remember it’s a case-by-case basis. Because everyone has individual choices about what they´re getting out of what they are experiencing.
But yes, it can be used that way for those who are willing to understand that any change in the present is an entire change, a total change of the past, the present, the future, whatever you wanna call it, because it all exists simultaneously, and any change will shift you to a different timeline. What you decide is in that timeline is up to you. So knowing how this works, knowing and understanding the mechanism gives you the freedom to know that every moment is zero, and that what you decide it is is what it is in terms of your relationship to how you experience what’s happening.
Yes, certain things again, as we said, may be set by the soul to experience, but again, realizations and inspirations and aha-moments, as you say, are also designed in there so you can allow yourself to make shifts that are relevant for your growth and your experience. So, realizing that every moment is a zero moment can allow you to choose to go ‘all right, I am now such a different individual that I never had PTSD’, and therefore you no longer experience that idea, because you never have experienced it as the new individual who has a past that never had an incident that created PTSD.
You can use it that way, but many individuals might actually say on another level ‘but I wanna continue to experience this idea, because it puts me in touch with things that are important for my soul’s growth, for my understanding of other people and their experiences as well’. And on and on and on, for a variety of reasons that different beings choose to have the experiences that they have. So, case by case.´ (Persistence of Vision, 2023)