25/01/2025
Neuroscience, Effects of Trauma and the Key to Unlocking it. Trauma is not the event, it's what happens inside our bodies as a result. Whether it's physical or emotional stress, the nervous system becomes overwhelmed with stored energy as a result of our body's protection mechanism of fight / flight response and not being able to complete the cycle back to rest / digest. Human threat isn't just to the physical body, it is also a threat to our person, our perceived sense of self. This is why emotional and verbal abuse are detrimental. We can not overcome our body's innate physiological programming by WILL POWER or WHITE KNUCKLING it. These survival programs are deep in our nervous system and somma and far more powerful than cognitive will power. If your body is in SHUT DOWN MODE because of constant unresolved stress, you can't JUST GET OVER IT. You can pretend, and maybe feel better for awhile but sooner or later you'll collapse into your body's shut down mode of the sympathetic nervous system or fight / flight / freeze. The key to unlocking that mode is by regulating the nervous system.
