The Neurobiology of Trauma: Why You Freeze & Self-Sabotage | Aravind Padmaraju

In this lecture Dr. Aravind Padmaraju argues that the law of attraction is a genuine energetic law, but its effectiveness is blocked by trauma‑based negative emotions such as fear, guilt and shame. He explains how these emotions trigger a physiological shift: the amygdala perceives threat, signals the hippocampus, and drives the autonomic nervous system into a chronic fight‑or‑flight state. This state elevates breath rate, heart rate, and cortisol, creating a persistent "beta‑dominant" brainwave pattern that shuts down the prefrontal cortex, leading to over‑thinking, freezing, and self‑sabotage. Padmaraju emphasizes that 90 % of trauma storage resides in the body (the five koshas: physical, energy, mental, intellectual, spiritual), not just the mind, and that body‑level memory governs daily habits and identity. Consequently, surface‑level practices—positive affirmations, 11:11, 369 rituals—fail unless the underlying body‑mind pattern is healed. He proposes an integrative healing approach that works on the four dimensions (mind, body, heart, soul) to reset the body’s energetic frequency, allowing the law of attraction to function as intended. The talk blends neurobiology, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance for deep, belief‑based healing.
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As you know, and many of the audience know, the law of attraction is a law. It's not a pseudoscience. What law of attraction says is that what energy I give, the energy I receive. And majority of the time, when you have a trauma-based anything you're holding, the trauma will always create negative emotions like fear, guilt, shame, all these emotions. And these emotions are the symptoms of this real problem. And these emotions, when it happens, There is a psychological and physiological shift happens in your body. And when that happens, the breath is one of the thing in that physiological change. Your nervous system go to a fireflight mode. And what are we doing is we are trying to fix the fireflight mode but not the root cause. So what happens is you fix it 3 minutes, again the same thing will repeat. And I'm 100% sure the many coaches or, you know, many entrepreneurs, working professionals, or even by that any person in this world, the overthinking is one of the Day-to-day life pattern. You just do one action, you get stuck with that, and you keep overthinking and all of that. This is happening because of this majority of the blocks, and this you need to identify and block it to the root level. If you don't do the root level, and you just as if you're living in a dead element with the smell, and you are worried about outside people, but the damage is already there inside, and every emotion what you're feeling negative emotions is all happening because of. Your existing emotional stories or experiences and perceived stories and your perceptions stored in your body, in your mind, in your heart, in your soul. So this is that's what I call it as the four dimensions. Majority of the times people told that just focus on a mind. Focus is just mind is just an entry point. But your ninety percent of the storage is on your body. Your ninety percent of your Every single day, day-to-day habits on your body, and your true identity is on your body. And majority of us, we always say, when you are in the slow moments, be positive, say the positive words, life will change. It doesn't change. Yes, it doesn't change. Because people are getting fooled by saying be positive. Because just imagine, I'm going through so much of pain, and I'm— my body and psychologically is in a pattern. This pattern is happening every time. And just by saying I'm positive, I'm healthy, I become powerful, I become fantastic, I become abundant, I become karorpati. And every time when you're saying, your inner state is saying, where are you? अंदर तो इतना pain है, इतना इतना you have this much of fear, guilt and shame. Right. But when you are vibrating, when your body is not only your mind, your body has the four elements as part of which is also called in our ancient wisdom there are five koshas. Hmm. Your physical body Your energy body, mental body, intellectual body, and spiritual body. So that is what I call it as your mind, body, heart, and soul. This all together, what energy you're carrying, is what you're attracting in your life. But most of us, we are focusing on mind, mind, mind, mind, because everyone knows that their life can be better. But why they are not changing? Because their body is not supporting. Yes. Their body is stuck in the old loop. So when these patterns stuck in their body, psychologically and physiologically, there's something happens. Because I really wanted to give the people that how much important healing in your life. Because if you don't heal, just imagine you're sitting in a dead rat and feeling a smell and you are blaming everyone outside. And you have an opportunity choice to heal it. You have an opportunity choice to choose it. But why did these things go to the body level, which I really wanted to emphasize it? So body level, there is a psychological shift happens in your mind and your body. For example, whenever this kind of a negative pattern happens, our mind— there are 2 minds in our brain: limbic brain, which is the emotional response brain, which is basically threat response brain, and there is a logical or thinking brain. which is your prefrontal cortex where the creativity, your work, everything happens. So in limbic brain, there are 2 powerful things happens whenever there is a real danger, there is a perceived danger. For example, amygdala. Amygdala's role is if there is a real danger, for example, there is a fire, we don't sit and talk here, we'll run away and save ourselves. Exactly. So that whole chemical reaction is happening inside your body to save you. The trigger is happening from amygdala. So amygdala communicates to your nervous system, your nervous system communicates to every single cell of your body, and every single cell of your body actually tells them to every single cell of your body that we are in danger, stop healing, stop living. Let's right now, our job is to survive you. And that's why your breath goes up, your heartbeat goes up, your blood circulation fastens so that you can take a quick action to save you. So this is how actually the amygdala role. But what happens whenever you are stuck in this negative emotions like fear, guilt, shame? This amygdala takes it as same as it is the real danger. It fires up. And one of the biggest problem with this negative emotions is it also has a reference. This amygdala has a connection with the hippocampus. Hippocampus is your memory bank. In the hippocampus, every memory from the time you born to till now, everything is stored with the images, with the sensations, with the body expressions. Everything is stored there. For example, you got a— right now you're feeling a fear. This amygdala goes to hippocampus, checks, Mr. Hippocampus, tell me how many fear elements are there. If you have 100 elements, it has a deeper level of pain, and then it puts your nervous system into fireflight mode. And during that time, your nervous system says to your body, we are in danger, stop doing your regular tasks. Hmm. Our job is to survive, but there is no real threat. Your heartbeat goes up, your breath goes up, and your cortisol rises in every single cell of your body for you to take a quick action. But there is no real danger. And this has been trained how many years? Some of them, when I work with these people, 30 years, 40 years, 15 years, 5 years, 10 years. Just imagine 10 years, majority part of your day, 8 to 10 hours, you're consistently in this rushing of— you're in a danger mode. What will happen? Your body learns that as a behavior. Your nervous system irregulates. Every cell of your body has an emotional expression and that memory is stored in your body. A lot of people thought your mind is the 100% memory. Your mind is only the entry point of the memory and some part of it is there. But anything which is automatically happening in your life is a body memory. Your body memory is a true identity. Yes. So until and unless we don't change the body, alone with the mind you cannot. So that's why you need to work on the mind-body level. So until and unless you don't change this pattern, what happens is whatever your body's familiarity is what you attract in your life. Because your body cells memory 24/7 vibrating with that energy. And in the morning and evening we are doing affirmations, we are doing all the crazy work, all the 11:11, 369, all these techniques. But you still don't attract because the Universe wanted your whole energy as a system, not only the 1 hour or 30 minutes what you do. Hmm. When you see there is an inner conflict, there is inner state conflict, the inner state is sending you the fear, but you want the success in your life, but there is a conflict. The fear is the majority of the time you're feeling, and the Universe brings you more situations with the fear. More people will create a fear, and more opportunities or life situations create a fear. And you becoming the attraction of the life which you don't want. Yes. So that's why if you don't heal, if you don't understand this concept, and whatever you can do, but the law of attraction is absolutely right. Right now also you're manifesting state of you. Hmm. That's why if you don't do the deep level healing, what happens is you will need to fix these root causes. So based on my understanding, I identified multiple Levels we need to go at the root level, and yeah. So this is what happens, and that's why it is very difficult to clear it, and very difficult. Lot of people doesn't have this understanding about what is happening psychologically, physiologically, and what we do. We we do without any having a belief. At the end of the day, any practice to work in your life is a belief. Amazing. If you don't believe it, even practice the same thing which I am teaching will not work. The whole point of explaining this is this is what happening inside your body whenever you're healing. And there is a deeper level to it, is our mind and our body has some of the frequencies. Our mind has 5 frequencies: beta wave frequency, alpha, theta, delta, and gamma wave frequency. These are the 5 frequencies how our brain operates. Whenever you are in high threat response like this negative, in beta there is a higher beta state. Your, your mind goes to higher beta state where you cannot think. Your prefrontal cortex shuts down. Your brain cannot get ideas. Your brain cannot take an action. That's why people, when they are into this consistent loop, they self-sabotage. They want to take an action, but they can't take an action because their mind feels blank whenever they have the severe attack. And a lot of people think that how people can— they attempt for a suicide because their body is making them do. Their mind is absent.
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