Is there any connection between the amount of emotional trauma that an individual has experienced and their ability to learn and thereby function effectively? Well over 15 years helping traumatized individuals heal from their emotional trauma it has been my observation that trauma can significantly limit one's learning potential. There are several reasons for this: 1. Emotional trauma leaves in its wake a host of emotional symptoms that not only deplete one's energy they also act as a great distracter. This leads to poor attention, reduced concentration, reduced retention and short and long term memory deficits. 2. When an individual experiences a trauma the memory of the trauma must be isolated (i.e. made unconscious) from consciousness in order to keep the pain at bay. When this isolation occurs in the mind/body what is also lost are some of the individual's executive mental functions as well. This is what is sometimes experienced as a "fragmented" attention or as memory deficits. A more dramatic example of this is cases where individuals experience periods of dissociation. In the dissociated state what is learned, if anything, remains dissociated and separated from the individual's primary conscious state. So it becomes clear that trauma can be a significant contributor to learning deficits. Recently there is a new modality that can heal emotional trauma quickly ad easily that has the potential, in my view, to repair some of these learning deficits. This tool which is called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) has also been shown to improve emotional resilience and reduce anxiety and stress levels which are also indirectly affecting learning potential. |
