Trauma (Human Factors) — YouTube from the CEC Library

The book "The Other" addresses behavior and spirituality. Trauma would be more than a mark on the psychic apparatus. When an event negatively affects our life and generates fear or insecurity, it may leave a mark. We may be affected and store that information; it causes distress and accompanies us throughout life. This form of storage would function as emotional energy.

When we feel that something is causing us distress, we may be dealing with emotional energy—an accumulated emotional charge. Imagine that you store these experiences in a trunk, like dirty clothes, related to your interaction with the world. An event may be insignificant to one person and unbearable to another, depending on how each person relates to the world. Memory would exist only because of this energy, from which solutions and problems could arise.

Memory may allow us to accomplish important things, but it may also bring unpleasant experiences to the surface. Emotions such as tension, fear, anger, hatred, apprehensions, resentment, revenge, spite, bad moods, aggressiveness, irritability, and expectation are negative energies, "emotional lumps" that we create and that are difficult to bear. On the other hand, joy, goodwill, good humor, sensitivity, friendliness, cooperation, receptiveness, communication, optimism, affection, generosity, courtesy, and companionship are positive energies and make us feel good.

This emotional energy can help us be happy or make us unhappy and bitter. Therefore, it is essential for our life to be aligned with what we are able to understand. Resolving and processing the events that hurt us is necessary to some degree. Some scars are deep. Trauma would be a scar that remains in the emotional or psychic apparatus.

This mark could remain hidden in the unconscious when we do not want to deal with it. The accumulation of these emotional charges could block us. Their presence could be perceived when we want to do something but face an inexplicable inner difficulty. For example, when speaking in public, some people feel at ease, while others feel great tension; internal emotional charges could make it difficult for the ego to organize itself.