Recently I had the opportunity to attend the presentation of an interesting book... No, this book was not psychological... It was theological... And it was devoted to the topic of death and resurrection in different traditions. Why did I want to talk about this? At the meeting, they talked a lot about how difficult it is for all of us now in the new situation to live, believe, love and hope... And so, we started talking about the resurrection, the cornerstone of the Christian faith. As you know, in the Gospel there is There are many stories about resurrection. One of them is how Christ raised Lazarus, with whom he was friends and communicated. This event is celebrated a week before Easter, on Lazoreva, or Palm Saturday... That is, very soon... Lazarus was the brother of Martha and Mary, and they lived on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Bethany. On the way to the capital, Christ went to the house of his friends. On the way, Martha met him and told him about the misfortune that had befallen the family. And what is surprising is that upon learning of this, Christ began to cry like a man. He grieved for his friend. Christ went to his friends and raised Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, wrapped in a funeral shroud. According to legend, Lazar lived another thirty years and became the bishop of the new Christian church. He was resurrected in the same form and in the same body as before death. This was the same person whom family and friends knew... But the resurrection of Christ himself is a completely different matter. When they talked about this at the presentation of the book, a question arose and I asked it: how does the resurrection of Christ differ from the resurrection of Lazarus? The point is that after the resurrection Christ changed. His body has changed. He could pass through walls, could become invisible, in other words, his body changed at the cellular level. But... The Apostle Thomas said that he could not believe that Christ had risen until he received evidence. And then Christ extended his hands to him and showed him his footprints from wounds from nails left after the Crucifixion. How can this be? – I had a question, why does a body that has changed so much that it can pass through walls still show signs of wounds? After all, this is already a transformed, renewed person? And this is what came to my mind. I think Christ was already in that new state when he could change his appearance depending on what another person needed to see in him. And even when the traces of the wounds were transformed, He could show them to the disciple so that he would be healed and believe...... When we heal our psychotraumas, we go through a transformation. In its process, what brought us pain, what was a constant source of suffering, can turn into strength, into the energy of life... Locked in capsules of suffering, the joy of being is freed, and what was clots of pain turns into a rainbow stream of life. But a trace of injury remains. Moreover, it can manifest itself in different ways. Sometimes, when a hurricane is raging around and events in the world are full of pain, they can almost “automatically” push to the surface of consciousness traces of our personal - and generic traumas, suffering experienced in the past. And then, if we still they have not been worked out, we have the opportunity to deal with them. Moreover, in such situations we can no longer, as in “ordinary” times, brush them aside, repress them into the unconscious or go into denial. Life itself will call for comprehension and awareness. And this can become our task - to understand our traumas, and thus contribute to the common cause of pacification and harmonization of the situation. If a person has already experienced a transformation, then this, of course, is reflected primarily in his body. The body is transformed, resurrected for a new life, confidence, calmness, harmony, strength awaken and take root in it... But... if someone wants to ask us: “Prove that you really experienced a transformation, prove that you also suffered, were sick, and then was able to heal,” we will be able to remember our “old wounds.” We will be able to “show” them, talk about them, about the ways of their healing... And so we will help our neighbor, be it a friend or a client. I think this is the image of the “wounded healer” that K.G. wrote about. Jung: “Only the wounded healer heals.”… Recently a friend called me.