Ever had an old wound, emotion, or past trauma suddenly bubble up, sending you into an overthinking spiral? One minute you’re fine, the next, your brain is running a full-blown emergency drill—overanalyzing, tensing up, and convincing you that doom is imminent.
That’s high beta brainwaves hijacking your system.
And if you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the things to call in abundance but keep hitting an invisible wall—this might be why.
Let’s break it down how trauma triggers can block abundance.
What Happens When a Trigger Hits?
Your brain has one job above all else: keep you alive. It doesn’t care about your big dreams, manifestations, or financial goals. It cares about survival. So when an old emotional wound gets triggered—whether from a comment, a situation, or even a memory—your nervous system responds as if you’re in real danger.
Even if you’re just sitting in your car.
Step 1: The Emotional Brain Sounds the Alarm
Your amygdala (fear center) detects a threat—except instead of an actual saber-toothed tiger, it’s just your brain linking the present moment to an unresolved past experience.
Step 2: High Beta Brainwaves Take Over
Your brain kicks into high gear, flooding with high beta brainwaves. This is the “I can’t stop overthinking” state. High beta is great when you need sharp focus in a crisis, but terrible for creating, trusting, or attracting abundance.
What happens in this state?
- You hyper-analyze everything (“What did they mean by that? Am I not good enough?”)
- You loop in worst-case scenarios (“This always happens. What if I fail? What if I never get what I want?”)
- Your body tenses up, expecting an attack
- Your intuition and creativity shut down because your brain is stuck in survive now, thrive later mode
Step 3: Stress Hormones Flood Your System
Your body gets the memo and dumps cortisol and adrenaline into your bloodstream. These are great if you need to outrun a bear—not so great if you’re trying to feel aligned, magnetic, and open to receiving.
Your entire energy shifts into scarcity, protection, and resistance. And just like that, you’ve slammed the door on abundance, even if consciously you’re trying to manifest something bigger.
Why High Beta Brainwaves Block Abundance
Here’s the thing—abundance isn’t found in survival mode. You don’t attract ease, flow, and prosperity when your brain is locked in overdrive.
To tap into your highest potential, you need access to alpha and theta brainwaves—these are the states of relaxation, intuition, and subconscious reprogramming. They’re where manifestation, deep healing, and receiving happen effortlessly.
But when high beta takes over, your brain:
❌ Can’t access deep wisdom or intuition
❌ Stays fixated on control, fear, and limitations
❌ Can’t see new opportunities because it’s scanning for threats
In short, your survival brain doesn’t let you expand—it only lets you repeat past patterns to “stay safe.”
So, how do you break the cycle?
How to Shift Out of Survival Mode & Into Abundance
If you want to unlock your full potential (and stop feeling like you’re battling your own brain), you have to teach your nervous system that it’s safe to receive.
1. Breathwork to Regulate Your Nervous System
Your breath is a direct hack into your brainwaves. Slowing your breathing signals safety, dropping you into alpha brainwave states where intuition and creativity flow.
Try 4-7-8 breathing:
- Inhale for 4 seconds
- Hold for 7 seconds
- Exhale for 8 seconds
This literally shuts off the high beta freakout and brings your body into calm presence.
2. Meditation & Visualization
Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between reality and imagination. When you visualize yourself in your most abundant, calm, and magnetic state, your brain rewires itself to believe that’s normal.
(And normal = accessible.)
3. Move Your Body (Get Energy Unstuck)
Trauma and stress get stored in the body, so trying to “think” your way out of a survival response rarely works. Movement—whether it’s shaking, dancing, yoga, or tapping—helps release stored energy and shifts your nervous system into safety.
4. Rewire Limiting Beliefs (Your Brain is Lying to You)
High beta brainwaves keep you locked in the same limiting beliefs that have kept you small. When a trigger hits, your brain pulls from old programming to make sense of it, usually reinforcing:
- “I’m not enough.”
- “It’s not safe to trust.”
- “I have to struggle to survive.”
This is not truth—it’s just a well-rehearsed brain pattern. Start catching these thoughts and replacing them with:
- “I am safe to expand.”
- “Abundance flows when I relax.”
- “I choose to receive with ease.”
It might feel fake at first, but trust me, your brain eventually believes whatever you repeat.
5. Get Outside (Nature Resets Your Brain)
Nature entrains your brain to alpha waves, helping it shift out of high beta chaos. Ever notice how everything feels clearer after a walk outside? That’s your brain syncing with the Earth’s natural healing frequencies.
Touch the ground, listen to the wind, feel the sun—let nature reset you.
You Are Not Your Triggers (And You’re Not Stuck in Survival Mode Forever)
When an old wound resurfaces, your brain isn’t trying to sabotage you—it’s just defaulting to old survival patterns.
But you’re not here to just survive.
You’re here to thrive, expand, and receive with ease.
By shifting out of high beta and into states of trust, flow, and creativity, you start operating from your highest frequency—where abundance is inevitable.
And trust me—your future self is already living in that flow. It’s just waiting for you to catch up.
If you enjoyed this article you might also like these other articles I wrote:
Is Your Nervous System Blocking Your Manifestation? Here’s How to Fix It
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