Dr. Dave Rabin

It's like potentially unlimited power when you realize that the way we choose words, for instance, actually dictates

our reality because our words apply meaning to our existence, right?

And so that's like a core piece is that, you know, like going back to what you were saying, that the mind and the body are connected so that if we are taught, for instance, that...

That the world around us is unsafe growing up because we're exposed to extreme hardship, lack of support from our parents or our role models when we're growing up and facing challenges.

People who tell us many times, like we've all experienced, like, what's wrong with you that you did that thing?

And what's wrong with you that that happened to you?

And when you hear that from a role model, it all of a sudden makes us think that we can't trust ourselves to keep ourselves safe.

And that's the core of trauma.

It's actually, like, adopting a victim mindset.

Like, that's a... It's like a broken bone.

It's a fractured self-trust.

If somebody I respect tells me that I did something wrong, that I couldn't keep myself safe...

and that i caused a certain problem and i'm at fault then now rather than overcoming the challenge i just had with support i feel guilt and shame around that situation right and then that fractures my trust in myself my ability to keep myself safe so when that happens psychologically the biological reflection of that is my amygdala this fear center in my brain that

goes back to ancient, we call the reptilian brain, right?

It goes back to ancient reptiles.

That's there to protect us from threat and keep us alive, starts to fire off all the time because it thinks that we are always under threat.

And when we're under threat, we can't let the body lead.

We can't let our intuition lead because we don't trust our intuition anymore.

And coming back to our bodies and coming back to our intuition, which...

generally knows what's right and what's true, where our minds are often doubting what's right and what's true and questioning and judging, which is useful in many circumstances, but it often should not lead.