How our environment affects the Trauma Body

 ‘Trauma body’ is a term that I have personally defined as a construct that holds in itself all the traumas in the energetical and manifested form. Essentially, it is all that affects our bodies on an emotional, mental and physical level. Trauma body shapes greatly how we feel and react when we face situations that are difficult in our lives.

 As someone who is sensitive towards energy fields and has a lot of experience in reading people and their environment’s energies, I have noticed how there is a tendency to think the traumas we hold are always our own. There is truth to it and it makes sense to think of it this way, however the truth of the matter is a bit more complicated. The traumas that get expressed in us do so depending on many circumstances. There is always something that activates triggers, it can be for example a person who approaches us or a situation that unravels and needs attention, decisions that we need to make to strive towards our goals, work or simply everyday actions that need doing. We all know from our own lives how these situations can be triggering.

 From my experience, there is another more unseen force at hand that holds equally strong impact. Due to its nature, it is easy for many to go through life without fully being able to identify it and therefore making it harder for us to make the improvements needed. The truth is that trauma experienced by us or any other person or living creature will strongly shape the energetical signature of our environment. Trauma has a way of getting stored energetically into the places we visit, into the walls of the house and roads we walk on. An example could be a neighbor who you may have never met that lives on the other side of your bedroom wall, this complete stranger may shape your everyday life experience more than any person in your life without you ever knowing.

 Anything that is ‘alive’ has an energy field around it and energy fields that meet and spend time in each other's presence start to affect each other, this happens very subtly and mostly on a subconscious level. Going back to my example, if our neighbor feels angry on the other side of the wall then we might start experiencing a subconscious psychic attack of sorts. What I am describing is only energetical in nature. In this scenario, our codependent parts react to the neighbor’s energy by starting a survival strategy to find a way out of danger. The mind does not know a logical source of this disturbance therefore it starts to make connections to the best of its capability. For us, on a mental level it can start as an uneasy feeling that triggers the following thoughts: “Something needs to be done right now to solve the looming disaster.” On a conscious level, we could connect it to a situation in our own life that now has a different feeling connected to it. Once the connection is made the feelings created by the neighbor get anchored to the events in our own life.

 This is the nature of the unseen energy world and how traumas can “Bounce” from one person to another without us even realizing it. I would say it is also true that we carry the trauma seed in us that makes it possible for this “Bouncing” to happen but it may be small and it may have never been expressed without these strong signals in our environment which greatly amplified the experience. It is really hard to actually know the extent of traumas that we identify with, it might just take a decision to move to another place to change this trauma dynamic permanently. At the same time, for another person moving might not change anything or make it even worse. You can start to see how not being aware of these subconscious reactions can actually hinder or heal in a major way.

 As I mentioned before every person in a city has their personal energy field, a bubble of sorts that carries their ‘signature energies’. These energies belong to them and in addition everyone carries what does not belong to them as well because there is always some amount of energy that gets transferred by contact with each other. These energies that originally belong to us get shared by contact as well. From one bubble to another, coloring and changing what actually gets expressed and creating individual subconscious actions that get linked on our mental level to something relevant that goes on in our lives. There are collective themes that are shared this way. Whole cities and nations full of people interacting with each other, creating this common field, all seemingly disconnected.

 When I read energy fields from different people in a city it expresses to me as ‘averages’, painting an overview of all themes that are shared and trending. Of course there are further sources of how these themes get activated in people, our own planet holds in itself a similar emotional energy body, always playing a role in ourselves. This is often a relationship dynamic we are not even aware of, same with the sun and all the other planets around it. I have noticed there are even sources that are artificial in nature, technological devices that artificially create energy fields that have this ability to activate and trigger people in masses. Take it as you will, the whole reason I speak about it is because all of this has a deep effect on our nervous system.

 There is another idea I want to discuss in connection with this topic that has to do with the identity of who we are. Part of my healing journey was at one point becoming more and more aware of aspects of my nature that I had identified with that in actuality was part of the environment shaping me to behave in a certain way. For the longest time I thought to be someone else because of the people and places I came into contact with, I carried their identity as a part of my own. This is fundamentally the same energetical reactivity to the environment and people around us but now looked from the minds perspective that is experiencing itself without seeing how everything around it becomes part of its identity. The process for me to become aware of it was taking time outside of it. It was a year of my life that I decided to spend on my own, separated from people in a rural area and living a country life. Partly, it was also the trauma work I did with myself but most of all it was actively looking and perceiving these reactionary waves between me and everything else around me. When a client works with me and is ready to hear it I will make these connections for them or alternatively if needed I am open for someone to reach out to me with a goal of me teaching them the ways how they can do this on their own.

 Not everything can be solved by working extensively with our traumas or by regulating our nervous system. Living without knowledge about how our environment shapes us will make it hard to make lasting changes on our healing journey. It is like living together with someone who is not compatible with us, healing while constantly being under attack does not give us time and space to create positive healing experiences. Part of the healing journey is to become aware of what surrounds us and how it affects us, all for the reason to make better choices that support us. Besides trauma responses, there are people who share love and positivity, abundance and openness, sharing energies that can actually support us. This is also possible to achieve by working with our traumas and making good choices. If you already have pieces of that, I congratulate you! If you feel like you are missing out or being stuck. I have this to say to you. Be bold in what you do and give yourself the best tools to make change as easy as possible. All is possible with perseverance, dedicated work and good guidance.