Healing Trauma through Rituals

Gauḍapāda, a revered teacher of Advaita Vedanta, talks about the integration of the inner child and the adult. This is key, as it brings out the objective person, as opposed to the one suffering in traumatic subjectivity. In the Vedic tradition, all rituals of prayer, meditation and actions, are geared towards healing whereby one begins to understand oneself as non-separate from the whole. Instead of looking to be saved and healed, one is able to do it for oneself.