Dharmapunx NYC Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
Dec 18, 2025
Explore how emotions act like time machines, bringing past experiences into the present. Discover the interplay between the hippocampus and amygdala in recalling trauma and implicit memories. Learn why our emotional reactions often trace back to childhood experiences and trauma. Josh highlights practical techniques for recognizing these triggers and re-encoding memories with feelings of safety. Engage in guided practices aimed at soothing the body and accessing deeper emotional insights.
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Emotions Are Time-Traveling Memories
- Emotions are often memories replaying in the body through neural reinstatement.
- The brain recreates past states to interpret and respond to present situations.
Amygdala Writes Timeless Emotional Traces
- Traumatic or intense events shut down the hippocampus while the amygdala still encodes emotional traces.
- Implicit memories stored by the amygdala lack a time stamp and feel like present reality.
Disproportionate Emotion Signals The Past
- Implicit emotional memories lack source awareness so they feel like they're about the present.
- When emotion is disproportionate to the event, it's likely a past memory being triggered.