TRAUMA:
A Reboot By the Soul
10/22/26
Throughout our lives, all of us have had some kind of experience that has given us pause to step back from our usual routines and reassess our goals and actions. Some experiences are sudden but without urgency but others may be intense and fraught with hurtful and limiting circumstances. Traumas usually embrace the latter and challenge our ability to cope with the more serious issues.
Traditionally, traumas have an emotional content that trigger a strong reaction toward our sense of feeling out of control. The more we feel the need to control our circumstances, the stronger will be the tendency to react.
For most of us, traumas occur in the form of a physical event such as a traffic “accident,” falling off a ladder, a physical altercation with another person, the sudden onset of a chronic disease or injury and a whole host of other types of physical circumstances. The main focus to be understood is that these events are almost always physical and unexpected. It is this unexpected quality that shocks us and then challenges our ability to cope.
When our intended actions are halted by externally generated and unexpected circumstances, it is only then that most of us stop what we’re doing, usually because we have little or no choice, and assess our circumstances and our surroundings. But we must understand that these events come as a shock to us because the change that is “needed” is nowhere to be found on our radar or a part of our recognition. How can this be? First, let’s take a look at why it might be “needed.”
It is my belief that our times here on Earth are very much like a school that acquaints us with different types of experiences and perspectives that contribute to our overall awareness and perception. The “higher” the grade of awareness we find ourselves in, the broader our comprehension of life and its dynamics. However, unlike earthly schools and from a much wider perspective, our participation is continuous and never ending always moving us toward our further extended awareness. To approach this there are many facets of awareness and comprehension that are needed for us to “fill in the gaps.” While we are in this earthly world and if our chosen direction deviates from this goal, “adjustments” are needed to put us back on the proper path. This deviation is most often why we encounter trauma.
Our life here is an attempt at synthesizing our body and our soul. Simply put, both are separate entities, each with their own autonomous awareness and expression, albeit one may be more aware than the other. Our “job” is to assist them to work in harmony. When we only allow the body to “steer” our activities and participation, we often veer off from the path that our present incarnation originally set us upon. We then have a choice. Do we leave or do we reboot away from the path that our body has put us on. Trauma is the reboot and our passing is usually chosen if our path has strayed far enough beyond our ability to repair it through “adjustment.” However, it should be noted that an “adjustment” is not always “needed.” Sometimes the reboot itself is even in the original plan. This is very challenging to our human perception.
Even though our goal is to create a synthesized relationship between our body and our soul, it is necessary that our soul does the major part of the assessing and decisions for “steering.“ This is necessary since the original plan was set and determined from where our soul was “residing” before our most recent incarnation. This comes from a much “higher” awareness than what our body is capable of perceiving.
At this point I’d like to make a distinction between what I see as our spirit and our soul. Our spirit is that part of our being that is the awareness and the “breath of life” that we are given by the creator. It creates the action and the “steering” that the union of our body and soul needs for direction. The soul is simply the integration of our spirit and its accumulated “memory” of all our worldly experiences. Within this perspective, let’s move on.
Sometimes our body’s “steering” is simply our soul’s planned exposure to a new experience. But, on the whole, the soul should do the major part of the “steering.” We should also be aware that our soul also incarnates into other and different bodies on different worlds. This should give us a hint as to the diversity of structure in other worldly experiences that our soul and our guides might choose to broaden our awareness through.
Before our incarnation our soul is made acquainted with what types of earthly experiences are necessary to comprehend the laws and workings of the universe in an effort to broaden our overall wisdom and awareness. We are helped by our guides to choose a lineage or family perspective that will prime us with an attitude that will create a bodily urge and momentum that will make the choice to pursue a career or lifestyle that will bring us the desired experiences, awareness and our comprehension of it. In the Western world we might call this our fate or destiny and in the Buddhist and Hindu worlds, this can be considered our dharma.
When we follow the “plan,” everything generally moves smoothly. But when our decision-making process gets overtaken by our bodily preferences and influences, we often go astray from our originally set path. It is then that our soul will institute a trauma to stop us in our tracks, so we have the time and the space to listen, reconsider or even just simply hear what our soul is attempting to “instruct” us with. Those of us who are totally immersed in physical and earthly goals, as our culture has currently become obsessed with, we become “immune” to hearing the voice of our soul hidden below the noise and the chaos of the physical world. In these cases, trauma then becomes a ‘tool” more significantly used by our soul to realign us with our chosen plan.
We should not simply just assume that trauma is a “spiritual reboot.” Sometimes, its sudden “adjustment” is actually a part of the path lessons and reminds us to be flexible and reacquainted with how to detach from the inertia that our physical body depends on for its security and consistency. Sometimes, it truly is a needed shock to the system to break the hold our body might have over us because we’re ignoring the “steering” prompts coming from our soul.
Our treatment of the circumstance resulting from a trauma should be considered with an open heart and an open mind to allow us to receive the understanding of what it is that is needed for us to faithfully align, or realign, with our soul’s plan for our path. We cannot allow the mind to assume that it knows the reasons for “adjustments.” Process each event clearly and without any preconceptions. Whether it is a reboot or simply a change of venue, a trauma should be dealt with honestly, carefully and with our fullest alignment with our highest values. Doing this will likely keep us congruent with our soul’s character and currently chosen earthly “mission.”
