Trauma & Health – Part 1
Why do our past experiences have a direct impact on our health?
Prolonged or frequent stress can be attributed to Lifestyles such as lack of social support, loneliness, financial hardship, unsatisfying career or unhappy relationships, and uncertainty.
Our unconscious mind also harbours many beliefs and perceptions.
These beliefs and perceptions are programmed by six years of age.
Unfortunately, we have little control over what programming we have received. This programming is just in our mind, running a script in the background.
As a result, these programs are not only not serving us. They impact our health by influencing long term stress from past experiences that we are often not even aware of.
The Complex Brain
I’m going to get a little sciencey for a moment to try and explain; stick with it:
- A complex messenger system is initiated when experiencing shock and stress by an event perceived as a threat.
- This messenger system starts with the Amygdala, which lives in the Limbic system of the brain.
- The Amygdala is the ancient reptilian part that’s primary job is to stay alert to danger.
- When the Amygdala senses a perceived or real threat, it communicates with the hypothalamus, which speaks to the pituitary gland that then talks to the Adrenal Gland.
- When the Adrenal gland hears the news, it activates, releasing Cortisol and Epinephrine.
The above dot points are an example that started as a response to a Stimulus. However, the same hormonal response can occur as a conditioned response, and a conditioned response is associated with memory!
So the next time the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-system activates (it could be from something completely different), all the perceived threat’s external or internal sensory impressions activate the cellular memory, and your brain can not tell the difference.
Your brain is reliving the trauma repeatedly and putting your body into the stress response!
Stored memory
Now, programming is completed subconsciously as we collect data from all our senses in every single experience. This data is then stored or encoded as a memory.
Most cellular Memory is harmless and does not negatively impact adversely on our health. However, Traumatic life experiences such as being physically assaulted, sexually abused, attacked or bullied, abandoned, betrayed, or neglected to name a few examples, will store as coded data in our cells.
The original Memory or Stimulus can act as an initiator for the same reflex response that catalysts a perceived threat. Being in the stress response for extended or frequent periods can create chemical imbalances in the body.
After that first experience, the remembered response or reflex can occur without a stimulus and just by memory. This action is referred to as ‘stimulus generalisation.’
Traumatically coded cellular memory = dis-ease
Some Traumatically coded cellular memory can cause dis-ease (cellular destruction) as an expression of significant trauma.
The chemical imbalances mentioned earlier can deplete the immune system, our body cells cannot grow and repair, and we deny our organs of vital chemicals.
The body’s natural healing abilities cannot work when there is a chemical imbalance.
You may be thinking, If I don’t think about it, it won’t affect me.
Unfortunately, the unconscious mind operates a whopping 90-95% of the time. So you may not even be aware it’s playing in the background; however, your body does know it’s there and will keep you in a dis-ease state until it’s resolved.
Isolation and decoding of causative cellular memory patterns need to be the primary focus of intervention if lasting effects on health are desired.
Thankfully this is possible. Shining light on the cause and exploring what’s really going on subconsciously, gently and safely is vital.
If freeing yourself from the shadows and moving from dis-ease to ease is crucial to you, then reach out to see how Simply Flourish can support you.
The journey from dis-ease to ease is one that I have been on myself. I thought I was stuck being unwell. But I wasn’t. I just needed to do the work to sort my baggage out. Here is a recording from one of my graduation ceremonies that talks about my journey.
