THE ALARM SYSTEM (nervous system)

After such a moment (trauma) we link an emotion to it, whereby our brain also makes connections with the senses that we perceive at that moment. This mainly happens in the middle part of the brain/limbic system.
Then we have a system in the brain including the hypocampus that scans the environment all day long for danger. If we experience something in the future with the same smell, color, sound, emotion or thought, the hypocampus will send a signal to the amGDala, which then triggers the body.
The body has briefly explained 2 systems of the unconscious nervous system (those over which you have no influence). The parasympathetic and the sympathetic system. The parasympathetic system is the system that is activated at rest (sleeping, meditation, relaxation and has a healing effect) and the sympathetic system that is activated in the event of immediate danger (which takes energy from your front part of the brain and causes degradation in the long term to both your body and your mind) You guessed it. The latter is activated by the amygdala through the hippocampus that has detected danger.

What happens then is:
flight, fight, freeze.
You get a dry mouth, your heart rate increases (palpitations), you can't get your words out properly, you start sweating, you start breathing very quickly (which causes hyperventilation).
All of which is not pleasant when you are NOT in mortal danger and (in fact,) a thought of the trauma moment is enough to make that hypocampus sound the alarm! You are often not even actually in real danger, but simply shopping somewhere or you are standing in front of the classroom or at work or at home talking to yourself or a friend or family member. Sometimes you're even at home watching a movie when your brain goes into alarm. Fairly difficult and blocking.
In addition, through this system, your body also withdraws energy from the front part of your brain, which prevents your brain from using its full function. In particular, you can't reach your frontal lobe. Who is responsible for learning, training and communication. Quite important when you are busy with school, work or want to think about your own thoughts or are watching a nice movie or series.
Instead, you CANNOT reach that and you can even go completely to your primitive brain and completely go off the rails/drown in your emotions or experience a peak in physical complaints, intense pain, hyperventilation, palpitations, etc.

With EFT, the stimulus does not go to your amygdala, so your body does NOT extract energy and you can therefore go to your frontal lobe. This gives you the opportunity to learn and research:
why am I getting nervous now?
why do I feel this emotion?
what is actually going on, what do I observe with my senses that triggers that emotion?
why does my body give complaints to talk to me?
why does my body want to talk to me?
If you know the answers to those questions, you can then ask questions that go into more detail. Ultimately you can also see what you want with that information. Do you want to clean up that information, rearrange it, or just keep it because you don't want to think about it right now?
WHAT you want or do with that information is up to you!
This is very valuable in learning to see and understand your own brain, emotions and body.
A nice side effect is that in some cases you not only analyze yourself but also the other person(s) involved.