Trauma and PTSD are subroutines that runs in the background of our operating system, like a windows service.

There is no interface to these services as they are unconscious, but there is code being executed.

Whenever an event is triggered that activates the service, it results in the operating system - your conscious self - reacting to that trigger as the service requires. This may be physical or emotional.

To deactivate the service, one has to become aware how it is coded and how it is working.

One needs to see it clearly, and understand its programming. Some people are completely oblivious to the existence of the trauma service, and needs to become aware of it first.

When we know how a trauma is programmed, the operating system has in an instant installed a new service that counteracts the effects of the old "trauma service".

The Awareness Service.

When that happens, the organism is undisturbed by the old "trauma service", even if it is still running in the background.

It has lost its power.

Consciousness is key.

As always.

Some people are resistant to becoming aware. That resistance itself, may be a trauma. If one defines trauma loosely, a person may become addicted to being a victim of their trauma. This addiction is itself a subroutine that prevents awareness from becoming an active service in the operating system.

We are, in a very real sense, biological machines running predictive code. Awareness allows us to transcend the code.

Or as some philosopher once said: "Man, know thyself".