The Importance Of Trauma

The search to understand ourselves is an inherent human trait. We seek self exploration in order to understand ourselves and others. However, we are not defined solely defined by our present experiences; the past plays a vital role in the creation of our self and our perception of reality. We consider time concrete, as we are able to measure it through the visible change in our surroundings. However, time is also psychological, and is therefore observed differently than physical time. The psychological passage of time goes unnoticed, as we are not alive to witness the events that have previously unfolded, molding our realities. Yet, without our knowledge, events from our ancestral past are able to reemerge within our psyche, allowing the past to exist in present time.

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Consider the particle a trauma that alters a person’s psyche; traumas of a person’s lifetime surpass the realm of physical time, and is then inherited by the next generations. Generation to generation the trauma continues to affect and shape the way people function and their perception. The trauma, no longer belongs to the individual at the moment, but to their entire family lineage. Each life that follows after a traumatic moment expands upon that trauma within their own experiences. Time when psychical, is distorted. It no longer functions as linear, and instead exists in a space where past and present alternate their control over our perceptions and actions. The reemergence within our psyche causes the distance in time that seems so distinct physically to become so unclear psychologically. This affect impacts the individual and the way that ancestral trauma is inherited from parent to child for generations. That then accumulates to an existence within parameters set unknowingly by those who