The impact of trauma you loose that connection to Self. That is a statement by Dr. Gabor Mate, you may want to find many of his talks on youtube. He is a most brutally honest psychiatrist, who has speciality in Addictions. He is a Hungarian Jew whose Mother gave him to a stranger one day so he would not go to gas chamber in the Holocause. He said he was about 1 years old and that trauma has lasted a life time. He was only gone several months, but to a stranger at one year’s old. But, when you have trauma when you are young the gut feeling that we sometimes have goes away. Gut feelings tell you to flee and not trust. But, a one year old cannot flee. There is the disconnection to Self. Our essense and true self connected to gut feelings. Gut feelings tells you what is appropriate and what is dangerous. When a child is in a traumatic situaltion they cannot flee Dr. Mate says that human beings have survived on the “gut feelings” and not intellectual. When trauma is present a human looses connection to the “gut feeling”. So when you or I were children and had trauma in our lives we surpressed our “gut feelin” to survive because we could not go any place. And then loose that connection to SELF.
Gut feeling tells YOU lots of things.
Impact of trauma is that your relationship to the world changes. The Buda said with our minds we create the world. My how great is that to know that with our mind we create our world. But before that the world creates our mind. And there you have that man made reality has just come into play. And most of your reality is created by TV, religion, entertainment, athelitcs and your circle of family and friends.