This will enable you to reconceptualize (reimagine/rewire) them into a pattern that works for you and not against you. Knowing about these trauma responses can help you see how you are responding to trauma triggers, which will, in turn, help you recognize the warning signals of how they are showing up in your life and what they mean for you. This means that when anything similar happens to us, the predictive pattern will “switch on” in our mind, brain and body, and we can automatically revert to it, which strengthens it further. The more this trauma pattern is activated/triggered, the stronger it gets. When this happens, the brain sends a message to all the cells of the body about this thought tree, so the memory is stored in the body as well. The more intense the experience, the more energy and strength the thought tree has. These main trauma responses are actual neural structures that get built into our brain as “thought trees.” The experience triggers the response with all its memories, including the knowledge, data and emotions that are attached to the memories like branches and leaves on a tree. Although recent research indicates there may be two more trauma responses common to human beings, I am just going to concentrate on the main four for this podcast. In this podcast (episode #403) and blog, I will talk about these different trauma responses, and how to manage them in the moment using self-regulation and mind-management techniques. We are all familiar with the fight or flight response, but there are actually four main trauma responses, which are categorized as “the four F’s of trauma”: fight, flight, freeze and fawn. When we experience any kind of trauma, we can respond to the threat in various ways to cope.
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