God does say "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Rev 21:4
As someone who has a lot of experience with psychologists - it’s probably psychological in nature, not spiritual. It’s not “fight or flight” ,it’s “fight, flight or freeze”. Our emotional " freeze" is when our emotions just shut down completely, in order to avoid feeling the pain at all.
If it was traumatic then you may be experiencing some kind of shock. This could be a defensive mechanism to keep you from becoming distressed to the point of exasperation. If you feel like you cannot or are not doing things that you would normally do like being kind to others or going out with your friends or getting up in the morning or checking the mail, then it could be a that your mind is not coping with grief adequately. If you feel like you are not adequately grieving properly then consider joining a grief support group at your church. Continue to praise God and offer to him your suffering and pray for discernment of this.
In times of trouble I find peace by entering into the moment fully and being completely realistic about what’s going on, putting aside both the past and the future - this removes all regret and all fear, and allows me to master the situation.
Peace is much better when you ask God what it feels like in prayer ; ) Try praying the rosary in a contemplative fashion, which usually takes long for me than the usual 15 minutes.
Peace is a feeling or sense of calm or calmness that comes over you. In my opinion, it can also be a sense of joy and trust and hope in the Lord, like everything will be fine, too.
Learned behavior toward stress might be like desensitization. Desensitization is not really a good thing, I cannot think of a good example.
I have had several long difficult valleys where darkness shrouded my being. It was a very terrifying time and I second-guessed everything about myself -especially my connection with our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time I didn’t “feel” joy, peace, happiness - or any of those emotions at all…but as I look back to that time I did have a sense of Peace - He was my Anchor, my Daddy, my constant Helper. The Holy Spirit kept my fading light of faith lit and I learned what it meant to have an earthly and heavenly Father. It’s just like the "Footprints in the sand poem…I thought I was walking alone but He was actually carrying me through it
I had been in counseling for a few years trying to get at the root of my depression when my psychiatrist suggested I see this therapist. He used a technique called EMDR and it is a desensitization technique that accesses both sides of your brain as you recall certain things that may have happened in the past. I went way past the obvious problems into issues that I had with my dad. It actually made such an impact in my life that within 7 or 8 sessions I knew I had finally reached the summit of my despair and what trauma was still causing it.
I had not heard of that. I suppose under the guidance of a therapist it would be helpful in some circumstances like that. My concern is desensitization can lead to acceptance of bad situations instead of fighting against it. People can become desensitized to violence say and so when it happens they may no respond like God would want them too…not to become Luke Warm about problems I suppose would be my concern. For PTSD I would have thought therapists would focus on changing thought patterns rather than desensitization.
Growing in my experience of peace during adoration I would say the peace can be so intense that it is like enjoying the pleasure of drinking wild flower honey or mango nectar without the worry of calories and imagine if you could feel that sense of pleasure throughout your body. Who needs Yoga when you have adoration. I thank God the Holy Spirit led me to the Catholic church. He is love… intense love!