Trauma, energy, and the universe as a closed system — some metaphysics shower thoughts
If you consider the universe as a closed system, every energetic imbalance across space is just energy concentrated somewhere (e.g. trauma, stuck in the body) and perhaps depleted elsewhere (e.g. someone experiencing anger). The total energy doesn't change — it just distributes unevenly.
In a trauma-free system, there would be no volatility, since the nervous systems of all people would be perfectly balanced — sympathetic and parasympathetic responding normally to external stimuli. Though maybe I'm wrong about there being no emotional volatility, because no-trauma doesn't mean a constant state of neutrality. I speculate there'd still be sadness, anger, etc.
But this raises a deeper question: how would an 'external stimulus' even exist if everything is in balance? What drives change in a system where nothing is stuck? If all energy is flowing freely and nothing is concentrated or depleted, what creates the difference that sets anything in motion? Maybe it's just time itself — the one thing that moves even when everything else is in equilibrium. Though I'll say, when I took mushrooms, time simply stopped making sense — which makes you wonder how solid that assumption really is.
And honestly, I'm not sure I fully understand what factors drive oscillations in the universe — the perception of everything moving, evolving, changing. But perhaps, assuming time does exist and is the fundamental driver of change, what's actually happening with energetic contractions in the body versus outside the body is this: when you're trauma-free, you move in sync with external energy and nothing gets stuck — as long as you're able to feel the waves of feeling fully until the body returns to baseline.
Anyway, these are half-formed thoughts. Curious if any of this resonates or if someone can poke holes in it.