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Lynn L. West, PhDc, BCETS, LCPC
Understanding PTSD Triggers
Lynn L. West & Associates, LLC

Understanding PTSD Triggers

On a recent photographic safari to an African game preserve, the guide directed the individuals to be sure to remain seated in the open canopied vehicle when the truck stopped. The explanation was the lions were familiar with the vehicle and would not bother the people as they photographed the lions while they ate. But if someone in the truck stands up, it immediately changes the signal detection pattern in the lion's brain, triggering an automatic switch to a prey drive state of mind. This could lead to all the lions switching to prey drive state and attacking the truck resulting in the guard having to shoot lions to protect the passengers.

While language describes the behaviors, or outcome of what can happen if the lion is confronted with a situation that triggers his/her relative prey state of mind, it does not articulate the foundation of this percept which is based on measurable differences in cellular energy patterns occurring between the lions and the people in the truck, which the lions sense.

A percept is the basic component in the formation of concepts. What we perceive is automatic without thought approximately 95% of the time. Memory is stored in the brain and organs as patterns or images that underpinned by biophysiological connections, that are “impressions” of something perceived through the senses. It operates automatically to facilitate protection and safety.

When the vibrational frequencies of cells in the brain and body of someone are distorted or changed through genetics, illness, disease, an accident or through traumatic imprinting, to name a few, the resultant image or impression is going to be affected. In the case of PTSD or traumatic imprinting, the individual is going to automatically and unconsciously react to any vibrations that he/she senses in the environment.

Working like a doorbell in a home, the sensing automatically triggers the cellular vibrations associated with the stored impression in memory at the time or times the person was severely victimized. Thus, traumatic imprinting works from the unconscious level of our mind (habit), by highjacking the brain and automatically switching the brain state to a protective behavioral posture.

It is not possible to understand PTSD symptoms and trauma responses in people diagnosed with PTSD disorders without first understanding the biophysical consequences of trauma to the vibrational frequency structure of underlying cells involved in a person's brain and body. The brain connections produce behavior we see in human and animal interactions.

Thus healing involves corrective experiences that replace disturbed cellular impressions with more appropriate and healthy cellular interactions. Proper nutrition, medication, psychotherapy, alternative and integrative medicine techniques all help take the static off the line, and bring unruly cellular vibrations into a healthy balance.

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