Finding Clarity in Trauma with Gi Gi O’Brien
Best-selling author and happiness expert Gi Gi O’Brien shares how holding a knife to her throat may have left a memory but not a scar.
When hearing the words ‘genetic inheritance,’ you probably think about eye color, blood type, and health conditions. But did you know that trauma and memories can also be genetically passed down through DNA?
Living with unhealthy mental states like post-traumatic stress and anxieties can debilitate more lives than just your own. If left unaddressed, your response and the agonies you have experienced can cut deep into the mental wellness of your future lineage.
Meditation and gratitude are more than just buzzwords. They can work the as incredible body and brain detoxifications. But until experiencing the desperation, isolation, and fear that comes with trauma, it may be hard to recognize or understand its wonderful workings… until now!
In the latest episode of Lisa Buyer’s Digital Detox Secrets, author, social entrepreneur, and founder of the Global Intelligence Initiative (gii) Gi Gi O’Brien shares her mindful mission: to positively impact and guide one million people to reach a happier, healthier, and high-performing life. She also describes how to enhance your entrepreneurial personality, the launch of her new book, The Intelligence of Happiness: How to Thrive Using Authenticity, Self-Alignment, and Simple Neuropsychology, and the connection between science and spirituality.
Gi Gi O’Brien: Supported by Meditation and the Occasional Single-Malt
Piloting you away from the danger zone and into a thriving, not surviving mindset, Gi Gi’s book uses a trifecta model of basic neuropsychology, neurobiology, and cosmology to transcend your pain and worst life moments into powerful assets.
Five days after handing in the final manuscript of her book, The Intelligence of Happiness, Gi Gi came face-to-face with a home intruder. The perpetrator held a knife to her throat and stabbed her partner inches away from his carotid artery and juggler.
She sees this event as the universe’s way of testing her neuropsychology capabilities. She had drawn from decades of her own crippling mental health issues like anxiety-inflicted tumors, a terrible relationship with failure, and a series of underlying traumas to write the book. But this life-threatening attack sparked a new realization: That you are never done tending to life’s torments, whether they are from the past or the present.
2,500 Minutes of Meditation in the Jungle
For 42 hours, over the course of 7 days, Gi Gi detoxed from all entities that she so often used to numb her mind, body, and spirit. She detached from technology and obligations, learned where trauma and pain are stored, and relaxed the pent-up tension to tap into a healthier version of her entrepreneurial self successfully.
Each enhancement is linked in one way or another. Techniques that she adopted into her everyday and business life included meditative breathing to instill concentration, honing in on stress level management, becoming more nonreactive, and overcoming fear in a heartbeat. By switching off unhelpful subconscious and conscious thoughts, Gigi has relaxed any diseases ensued by trauma and...
