Traumas and our difficulties to change our behaviour

All in all, our response to trauma is a very clever mechanism.
At least that’s what we often experience.
 
No thanks, I will never put myself into such a situation again!

Trauma is a response to a highly threatening situation implementing triggers to save us from more pain. But does it really work that way?

In one way it does, we are careful not to do “it” again.
On the other hand we get triggered again and again through anything which reminds us of the traumatic situation, the danger: a noise, a smell, certain light, a song, a colour….
The body doesn’t allow us to step consciously out of this circuit. In the long run this can be painful though, we can get sick as we experience “action” hormones, like adrenalin, rushing through our body each time we get triggered. Over time this can create inflammation, changing our system through a slow process and potentially leading to chronic diseases.

So why is it so difficult to step out of this hard-wired circuit our brain has created to save us?
Why does it keep telling us again and again, that staying the way we are is the safest option?
 
Here, the difference between our conscious and sub-conscious minds is at work.

Our conscious mind is our awareness of everything as we go through life including our thoughts and our feelings, it allows us to problem solve and make decisions.
Our sub-conscious mind is responsible for all automatic functions of our body like breathing and digesting food, it stores our long-term memories, and it loves and uses a lot of shortcuts.

Although we may think otherwise, we only make 3-5% of our decisions consciously whereas 95-97% of our decisions are influenced by our sub-conscious mind.

More often than not, it simply overrides our conscious decision from yesterday to not eating so much chocolate and to develop healthier eating habits. The sub-conscious simply says, until now chocolate soothed our nervous system, we keep it this way. Not considering we started eating chocolate as a response to a trigger.

I work with a psycho-sensory therapy enabling you to dissolve the hard-wired circuit and through that to disconnect the triggers.
No triggers, no chocolate (or only one piece)