Dear Cali Chica:

Being trapped with a jackhammer, as a child, trapped because neither escape (Flight) nor Fight are options, time feeling eternal, the child’s neurons get overly agitated, overly excited, more than the organism can endure. The organism adjusts in a variety of ways, but a functional damage of  sorts has been done to the brain. The neurons in the brain are … forever overly agitated, unless a long-term intentional practice of Calm takes place.

What happens next is that wherever you are, the jackhammer is there too, a moment of silence is followed by hours of noise, noise, noise everywhere, fear and anger activated anytime, anywhere.

anita