Niraj NaikFounder & CEO of SOMA Breath | Music-Powered Breathwork Pioneer | DJ, Speaker & Author

The truth about your childhood trauma | Niraj Naik | SOMA Breath®️

16 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Niraj Naik says childhood trauma, especially early bonding with your mother, raises depression risk by about 30 percent. Hostile homes, loveless marriages, and poverty create imprints that lead to addiction and depression later. He argues forgiveness matters because parents often aren't wholly at fault, and presents tantra and energy practices as ways to reprogram those early wounds.

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You have something like a 30% higher chance of getting depression later on in life if you had some kind of childhood trauma. The first imprinting that happens is the mother child relationship. First potential for trauma is that this is why we have to be very good at forgiving, because quite often it's not the mother's fault, but the mother may be in an environment which is very hostile. She may be in a loveless marriage, she may have been raped and then gave birth. She may be struggling to make ends meet. All of that, though, unfortunately, may create imprints in the child, which drives them towards habits, bad habits in the future. Yogis realize that it's not someone's fault if they have some kind of depression or behavioral problems, addiction. It's not really their fault. It's something that happened very young, young age. And the whole practice of tantra and all these energy moving practices is to reprogram.