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Never dismiss someone’s pain as “trivial.” What seems insignificant to you may be deeply painful to someone else.

The emotional mind doesn’t measure pain by the size of an event. A small experience can touch something much deeper, triggering chaos.

In my two decades of clinical, psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology practice, I have seen that healing never begins by dismissing pain, but by understanding it with compassion. In other words, you simply cannot heal what you refuse to understand.

— Pulkit Sharma
Clinical Psychologist | Psychoanalytic Therapist | Spiritual Counselor | Author | Columnist
An excerpt from a 2018 talk organized by SACAR, Pondicherry.

#Psychology #MentalHealth #Trauma #EmotionalHealing #PulkitSharma

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00:00For the emotional mind or for the emotional being, there is nothing trivial, nothing big.
00:06And one should not judge.
00:08You know, if someone says that someone gave me a light slap and I am traumatized,
00:15no one has a right to say, how come you are traumatized with a light slap?
00:20You know, there are people who have been beaten, you know, blue and black and still they are not traumatized.
00:25So never be judgmental.
00:28Trauma is a very, very personal thing.
00:30So if you feel that, you know, when you are dealing with your own anger, go beyond these judgments.
00:39Don't say that I am getting angry over a trivial thing.
00:42No, that's not it.
00:43Just invite that part and say that, yes, this is something that has really hurt me, disturbed me.
00:49Let me understand that.
00:51With the conviction that, yes, I need to change this, I need to grow out of it.
00:55If you take that kind of a, as I said, there needs to be a lot and lot of compassion
01:00for the anger also.
01:03So there is nothing trivial, there is something that is bothering.
01:06You need to find it out and, you know, just deal with it.
01:25You need to find it.

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