Waking up Woke: Racial Trauma and the Perceptual Processing Systems of White Americans.

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Thank you for joining me.

I am excited about all the blessing that my spiritual journey has forded me, and to share them with you all, will be more of a blessing.

This is the second post in our series discussing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome (PTSMS) more in-depth. These series will serve two purposes. First, is assisting me in the writing of the book: Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome: Healing the Wounds of White Racism through Neurological Enhancement Training, Compassion, and Love. Second, this series will give me the opportunity to co-construct a shared narrative of the manifestation of #PTSMS as it relates to current events.

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During my training to become a Marriage and Family Therapist, I learned to integrate information from the various parts of a family to understand their dynamic as a complete, whole. For me, this means understanding how the brain adapts to stress, can influence how families interact, and how patterns of relating become ingrained overtime. Simply put, The whole of a family is greater than the sum of its part, which I see as a universal truth.

Most of my spiritual practices were built on searching for a universal understanding of things we deem as a pathology in the scientific

medical model of mental health. In my attempt to bridge these two separate realities (Western truth and Eastern truth ), I work to integrate psychology terms into an Eastern word view. And, in my attempts to showcase this endeavor, I have coined their term Post Traumatic Master Syndrome (#PTMS) to describe the mental adaptation of a White person’s brain as they encounter institutions of racism that were an immediate contradictions with the inherent spiritual essence of love, which we all have within us.

The spiritual essence of love is limited partially by the social anxiety that is ever present within a perceived capitalistic democracy, which seems to be structured to widen gaps between social groups. Therefore, when searching for these universal truths, I began to see that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, in relationship to racial issues. However, because of the chronic anxiety that is present within our society, we cope with racial stimuli by reducing the reciprocal nature of the interactional sequences to the sum of it parts and places judgment and blame on those who our collective perceptions designate as the oppressor.

As I began to explore this universal truth through a racial socialization lens, I began to see how how collectives communities organizes regardless of their race. This curiosity allowed me to stay in conversations, in which race based social anxiety steers us away from. As I built my emotional tolerance I Begin thriving spiritually within an emotional field derived on race based social anxiety the emotional field. This increase in emotional tolerance and ability to regulate myself emotionally allowed me to be flexible in my thinking, which has now leads me to the pursuit of understanding how White racism derived from slavery influence the mental adaptation of the brain in response to the traumatic experiences of being a perpetratorof violence on to an oppressed group.