How trauma prevents you from living your best life…
Trauma comes in many different forms. The most visible trauma is physical when the tissue of the body is damaged. The most invisible one buried deep inside is psychological, in other words, emotional trauma. Sometimes emotional trauma is direct (name calling, bullying, yelling, threatening, etc.), sometimes it is indirect (sarcasm, criticism, making fun of someone, etc.), which doesn’t make it any less of a trauma when you think of it.
During trauma, one experiences a load of negative emotions due to which one forms various beliefs that later on live human life unless detected and transmuted! The question arises - how do beliefs that are stored in the subconscious mind live through a human? The reactions to certain life situations will always be a good indicator of the beliefs, and when one gets triggered, it means that a certain belief prevents one from seeing a situation from a different perspective because the belief always overrides the objectivity of the situation. An example of this is a boy who got scared by his own father at age 4. He was put on the top of the house refrigerator and was asked to jump into his father’s hands. Believing his father would catch him on the other end, the boy jumped without any hesitation. However, the plan was to “teach” the boy a life lesson - not to trust anyone, including his own father. So, when his father didn’t catch the boy, not only was the boy physically injured, but also emotionally traumatized. The belief he formed in that situation was exactly what was intended to accomplish. This belief will always prevent this boy from connecting to other humans on any level of trust.
Babies are not born with beliefs’ systems! A child acquires beliefs by being exposed to traumatic events and later on through various first hand life experiences. All of which make up a child's subconscious mind. Certainly, any human has a set of beliefs whether one had trauma or not, however, the one who had trauma will be triggered emotionally more strongly than the one whose beliefs were formed through simply observing someone else’s behavior and habits, or was told to do or not to do things a certain way.
Subconscious mind will always override the conscious mind - that is how powerful it is! Even if you are present enough in your life to a situation that triggers you and observe your reactions to that situation, you will still be triggered unless in that present moment you consciously override your automatic reactions to the trigger.
Emotional traumas transpire when they are triggered in a certain situation, and those situations might repeat themselves over and over until you address your beliefs. All traumas along with unprocessed emotions, thoughts and beliefs that were formed during the traumatic experience, are stored in the human subconscious mind.
The beliefs change the biology, the mind and its intellect, along with the behavior of all humans. We can simply be constrained by our beliefs without even knowing it. Our subconscious mind is very protective of us because its primal function is to protect our physical survival; so, whenever we perceive a situation as a threat, our program kicks in and the next thing we know, we start reacting whether we want it or not.
These programs that have been installed in our subconscious mind will drive our survival responses automatically to supposedly keep us alive, however, not all situations are life threatening, and this survival mechanism in reality keeps us stuck from enjoying the TRUE beauty of LIFE as it was created by God.
