Trauma Of Your Past Creates Psychological Barriers

The Trauma of your past creates psychological barriers, bars to an invisible prison that exists in your mind. This prison activates whenever your mind, emotions, and imagination begin to deviate beyond its preconceived borders. Whenever you begin to leave the prison in your spirit itself, it is almost like the trauma within your psychology activates on its own, guiding you back to safety within itself. Like those electric dog collars that zap the animal whenever they stray outside of a programmed radius.

This is how the psychological barriers in your mind function. For some, it is their mothers voice ringing in their ears whenever they feel themselves drawn in a direction beyond their programming. For others it is their brother, sister, father, or friends. Friends are especially powerful, because the desire for social acceptance is a strong motivator in human beings (even in humans who rank relatively low on the give-a-fuck-what-other-people-think index).

Find The Barriers

The great challenge is to discover where these psychological barriers reside. The most powerful are often deeply engrained, and hard to discover. Intrinsic approaches, mindsets, and attitudes that we have when going about certain endeavours which are simply how we have always done it. How we learned to do it long ago, which never occurred to us could be our greatest limitation.

For me, I have found them in deep preconceptions I have regarding learning, creativity, writing, and my work. Buried deep in ideas of perfectionism, which unintentionally became a powerful inhibition which grew into a constraint all its own which prevented flow for a time.

Ideas that everything must be calculated and considered thoroughly, which grew to extensive overthinking, and became another obstacle that interrupted a natural flow of myself creatively, intellectually, emotionally, and perhaps spiritually too.

Challenge Your Fears, Go Beyond The Wall

One thing I have found is that these psychological barriers often are entwined with fears, anxieties, pain and failures. Fears of making a mistake (which are hard to notice sometimes, because they seems so reasonable) over time calcified into a rigid structure that constrained all movement and progress, when the initial intent was to maximize progress and attain high quality.

Failure at something can lead us to avoid that thing in the future — and anything like it. In the same way, past trauma can also lead us on a path of instinctual avoidance of all similar things.

The only solution is to challenge the fear itself. To confront it in our action consciously, and literally go against the grain. Essentially, to contradict patterns and parts of ourselves intentionally, even just to test and explore, even if we are not sure.

This is one of the most important tools that we have at our disposal. To question fundamental precepts as a practice in and of itself, especially when old patterns are clearly no longer working. Or are not working at this stage of our journey, to get us to the next frame.

Psychological Barriers Prevent Growth

Personal Evolution is the point of all of this, and our psychological barriers are what obstruct our development. They occlude deeper areas of our psyche, our spirit, and mask our potential for development in important aspects of ourselves.

Fear is important, and plays a crucial role in life. Yet if not controlled, and overcome whenever the fear itself is treated as a wall (rather than the warning and call for caution that it actually is) fears can control a person, and create shackles that inhibit development, and growth.

Trauma of your past creates psychological barriers, but penetrating those barriers cautiously is how we heal that trauma. They were a defence, but at a certain point, we can outgrow the need for that defence. Trauma of all kinds is painful, and was “bad” at the time. Yet just like learning from our mistakes, unpacking these knots of distortion in our psyche can produce the greatest jewels of knowledge and wisdom, and often unveil the most brilliant aspects of who we are.

It is our light that is trapped in the darkness within our psyche. The psychological barriers are like scar tissue, knots of emotional distortion. They are painful to touch for this reason. But they appear dark only because they are knotted and occlude the light beneath.

The trauma of your past creates psychological barriers. But if you never take down those walls, the trauma — and the people, places, and periods of life that instilled it in you — wins.

Don’t let them win.

Don’t let them dampen your light.