A short talk by Ashok Gupta linking sensitivity reactions (to foods, mold, electrical fields, chemicals) to past feelings of emotional unsafety—including adverse childhood experiences or trauma—that can hyperactivate the amygdala and produce heightened protection/defense responses to internal signals and external stimuli.
For those of you who are using the program for sensitivity reactions so that sensitivity to foods, sensitivity to mold, sensitivity to electrical fields, it'd be very interesting for you to become aware of what was going on for you in the run up to the condition because many people find that actually there was a sense of a lack of safety and a feeling that the world you are under siege from different unsafe factors in your life. So we find that a common theme in sensitivity reactions. And you might say, how does this relate to. And some people are asked, how does this relate to trauma or adverse childhood experiences? When we've been through adverse childhood experiences could be anything from, you know, a lack of nurture right through to full on trauma or abuse anywhere along that scale that can trigger the hyperactivity of the amygdala, how hyper reactive our brains are to the environment. And if we felt unsafe emotionally growing up, that can translate into a physical feeling of feeling physically unsafe in our environments. Yeah, give me a thumbs up if this is, this is making sense. Yeah. Because the brain does not differentiate between physical, emotional, biological, mental threats. It's all just threats to survival to create a coordinated defense response. So therefore, if we felt that lack of safety and nurture when we were younger, that can translate into heightened protection mechanisms when we're older. And that can be heightened protection mechanisms to our internal signaling and heightened protection to external stimuli as well, including chemicals.
