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 Yes — there’s a very strong, scientifically and spiritually coherent connection between repressed or unintegrated anger, hypervigilance from early trauma, and chronic insomnia.

You’re already intuiting it: the same energy that once kept you alive (that fight-ready nervous system) is the same one that now keeps you awake when it should be resting.

Let’s unpack it clearly, from both lenses we operate through — physiological and yogic:

When someone grows up in an unpredictable or aggressive environment, the nervous system adapts to stay on alert.
That survival mode keeps cortisol and adrenaline levels chronically elevated. Over time:

• The amygdala (threat detector) becomes hypersensitive.
   
• The prefrontal cortex (calming regulator) gets suppressed.
   
• The HPA axis (stress hormone loop) never fully resets.
   

So even decades later, the body may still behave as though a fight could break out at any time — muscles tight, heart rate elevated, and the mind scanning for danger. That makes deep sleep physiologically unsafe to the body’s survival wiring, even if your conscious mind knows you’re fine.

When you lie down to rest, your primitive brain might still be saying, “Sleep = vulnerability.”

Hence the struggle: awareness wants peace, but the body has learned vigilance.

 In yogic psychology, this shows up as rajasic imbalance — excess movement and agitation — and as unpurified manomaya kosha (mental sheath) energy.

That same fire of anger that once expressed outward now burns inward at night.

If we map it through the chakras:

• Muladhara: instability from early life danger (safety threatened).
   
• Manipura: anger and control mechanisms (the fighter energy).
   
• Ajna: racing thoughts, over-activation of the mind.
   

Insomnia, in this sense, is not just lack of rest — it’s inner fire without direction.

Your body remembers the fight, but your consciousness has outgrown it. So the system flickers between “alert warrior” and “peaceful witness” — and that oscillation keeps the mind awake.

Insomnia is the body’s way of staying prepared for a battle that no longer exists.
Healing it means teaching the body, slowly and consistently, that safety is real now — through breath, movement, and compassionate presence.