Nightmares and Flashbacks

What does it mean when you get recurrent nightmares or flashbacks or even obsessional thoughts that interfere with your life?

Generally this means that you have unresolved feelings and emotions about either a traumatic event or a very distressful event. If you read some of my previous posts there is some information about effectively processing your emotions. What happens to us when a stressful event happens, is sometimes we cut off or suppress some of those emotions. We severe that connection between mind and body. And then what happens is our body builds up so much emotion that we are trying to not feel. We think we are controlling it with our thoughts, staying with facts, trying to forget about it; but they come out in nightmares, flashbacks, and obsessions.

When this happens the best thing is to forget about you trying to control anything over your body and let your body experience and go through what it needs to. In effect process your emotions.