Stone Sanctuary, Chapter 4: Tetris, Stones and Trauma

After I gave a talk to cardiac patients about the Stone Sanctuary, an older woman in the audience came up to me crying, saying “I had a heart attack ten years ago, and suddenly I had to start carving stone, and have been carving stone ever since.  I had no idea why…”

In the ten years previous to working on the Stone Sanctuary, I had experienced seven surgical interventions, three near death experiences, a severe heart attack and had been diagnosed with PTSD.

Traumas and close encounters with mortality can activate a portal to deeper  layers of the Unconscious, for better or worse.

And apparently, playing Tetris after a trauma reduces the impact of the trauma.  (See Scientific American link below.)

Hmm.   Not so much different than stone work.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tetris-shown-to-lessen-ptsd-and-flashbacks/

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