Psycho

“Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing, cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. It must be in continual motion, grinding up human lives and trampling down the homes and the rights of hundreds of millions of men. Moreover, it must be fed, not only with flesh but with oil.”- Sir Winston Churchill

There lurks an ancient animal inside us. Something primal.  Something uncontrollable. This psycho gene is embedded in our DNA. Inside all of us. We are a violent race. It’s in our nature to kill. To destroy. For a million years, human survival depended on violence. Not because human beings were born evil, but because the world was dangerous. Long before cities, laws, therapy, spirituality, or philosophy, there was survival. There were predators in the dark. There were rival tribes competing for land, water, food, and safety. There were winters that killed entire groups. There were diseases nobody understood. There was hunger that turned morality into instinct. The modern human nervous system was not built in comfort. It was built in uncertainty. And your body carries the memory of that history. Somewhere inside you is an ancient animal that learned one terrifying lesson very early-If you do not protect yourself, you may not survive.

This is why the human nervous system is so sensitive to threat. This is why fear moves through the body faster than peace. This is why anger can feel more immediate than trust. The body learned survival before it learned love. The brain evolved to scan constantly for danger. Deep inside the nervous system, structures like the amygdala became hyper-attuned to threat. Stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline prepared muscles to fight or flee before conscious thought even had time to appear. The human body became a survival machine. To our ancestors aggression was not always cruelty. Sometimes aggression meant protecting your child. Sometimes paranoia meant surviving an ambush. Sometimes tribal loyalty meant staying alive through winter. Sometimes emotional numbness meant enduring unbearable loss. Traits we now call dysfunctional once had evolutionary value. The anxious person survived because they anticipated danger. The emotionally detached person survived because feeling everything would have destroyed them. The hypervigilant person survived because they noticed what others missed. Rage has roots in protection. And only when you understand this, humanity becomes more tragic and more compassionate at the same time. Because beneath many destructive behaviours is not simply malice. It is survival energy that no longer knows where to go.

The modern nervous system still carries ancient instructions. But the world changed faster than the body did. Today, most people are not being chased by predators. Yet the body still reacts to emotional danger as if survival itself is at stake. A critical tone can activate the same nervous system pathways as physical threat. A rejection can feel like exile. Loneliness can feel life-threatening. Humiliation can create physiological panic. A disagreement can unconsciously feel like war. And this is why people overreact. This is why people defend themselves before listening. This is why shame becomes anger. This is why fear becomes control. What is happening here? It is the human body remembering older ancient past worlds. And trauma deepens this inheritance.

Modern science now shows that trauma does not live only in memory. It lives in biology. Research in epigenetics suggests that prolonged stress and trauma can influence gene expression across generations. The descendants of famine survivors, war survivors, genocide survivors, and chronically traumatized populations often show altered stress responses even decades later. The nervous system can inherit fear before language. A child may enter the world already carrying a body prepared for danger. Not because something is “wrong” with them. But because the body adapts to the environments it comes from. Your anxiety may not have started with you. Your hypervigilance may be older than your own story. Your body may be responding to generations of unresolved survival. When we as a species, as a community and as a family understand this aspect we can change how we look at human behaviour. This does not in any way ever excuse cruelty. Not ever. But it explains why pain repeats itself so easily across generations. A frightened father raises a frightened child. An emotionally abandoned mother struggles to emotionally attune to her children. A nervous system shaped by violence unconsciously recreates violence. Trauma echoes through families because survival patterns are often inherited before awareness develops. Children absorb nervous systems before they absorb language. They learn safety not through words, but through tone of voice, facial expression, tension in the body, unpredictability, emotional availability, and the atmosphere of the home itself.

A child raised around chronic anger may grow into an adult whose body expects danger even in peaceful moments.

A child raised around emotional unpredictability may later confuse anxiety for love.

A child raised around survival may struggle to rest without guilt.

The body becomes conditioned to chaos because chaos once meant adaptation. This is why healing is not merely intellectual. You cannot think your way out of a nervous system shaped by survival. The body must slowly learn what safety feels like. And this may be one of the hardest things a human being can do. Because survival feels familiar. Peace can feel terrifying to a body trained for war. Many people unconsciously recreate stress because calm feels unnatural. The nervous system becomes addicted to activation. Drama, conflict, urgency, overworking, emotional chasing, hyper-independence — all can become unconscious attempts to maintain familiar survival chemistry.

The body simply says-At least this feels known.

This is why some people sabotage healthy relationships. Why silence feels uncomfortable. Why rest creates anxiety. Why softness can feel unsafe. The ancient animal inside us trusts survival more than peace. But human evolution did not stop with violence. Something else evolved too. Compassion evolved. Empathy evolved. Cooperation evolved. Care evolved. Human beings survived not only because they fought. They survived because they loved. Biologically, the human nervous system regulates through connection. Safe touch lowers stress hormones. Eye contact calms the body. Love changes physiology. We are wired not only for survival, but also for attachment. And this is the great paradox of being human-

The same species capable of brutality is also capable of profound tenderness. Inside the human body live both the predator and the protector. Both fear and love. Both destruction and healing. And maturity may be the ability to become conscious of both. Real healing begins when a person stops identifying entirely with their survival patterns.

When they realize-

“My anger may protect me, but it is not my identity.”

“My fear may be ancient, but it is not all that I am.”

“My nervous system adapted to pain, but adaptation is not destiny.”

Awareness interrupts inheritance. This may be the deepest responsibility of being

human-

To prevent unconscious pain from becoming someone else’s future. Because trauma that is not transformed tends to transmit. The wounded child often becomes the wounded parent. The shamed nervous system often shames others. The body carrying unresolved fear often spreads fear unconsciously. Until someone decides to stop. Until someone sits with the pain instead of passing it on. And that is evolution too. Not technological evolution. Not artificial intelligence. Not machines. But pure Consciousness. It is -

A human being learning to remain present without becoming violent.

Learning to feel fear without becoming cruel.

Learning to hold pain without exporting it into the world.

Perhaps this is what healing truly is. Teaching the ancient animal inside us that it is finally safe to unclench.

Remember those walls I built?

Well, baby, they're tumbling down

And they didn't even put up a fight

They didn't even make a sound

I found a way to let you in

But I never really had a doubt

Standin' in the light of your halo

I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened

Every rule I had you breakin'

It's the risk that I'm takin'

I ain't never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm lookin' now

I'm surrounded by your embrace

Baby, I can see your halo

You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more

It's written all over your face

Baby, I can feel your halo

Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo ...

Hit me like a ray of sun

Burning through my darkest night

You're the only one that I want

Think I'm addicted to your light

I swore I'd never fall again

But this don't even feel like fallin'

Gravity can't begin

To pull me back to the ground again

It's like I've been awakened

Every rule I had you breakin'

Baby I can see your halo…

“Halo” by Beyonce released in 2008.