Somatic Experiencing
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Somatic experiencing was developed by Peter Levine to address the effects of trauma.
Trauma is an internal straitjacket created when a devastating moment is frozen in time. It strangles our attempts to move forward with our lives. it disconnects us from ourselves, others, nature and spirit. we are frozen in time.
Somatic experiencing aims to help people to move past the place where they might be "stuck" in processing a traumatic event. If the trauma is unresolved it can lead to mental and physical health concerns, such as posttraumatic stress (PTSD), sleep problems, mood swings, or immune system problems. Somatic experiencing aims to restore the body's ability to self-regulate i n order to achieve balance and integrity.
Through the focal awareness of bodily sensation, individuals are able to access these restorative physiological action patterns. This allows the highly aroused survival energies to be safely and gradually neutralized. Unregulated arousal previously locked in the neuromuscular and central nervous system can be discharged and completed, thus preventing and resolving traumatic systems.
Trauma is an internal straitjacket created when a devastating moment is frozen in time. It strangles our attempts to move forward with our lives. it disconnects us from ourselves, others, nature and spirit. we are frozen in time.
Somatic experiencing aims to help people to move past the place where they might be "stuck" in processing a traumatic event. If the trauma is unresolved it can lead to mental and physical health concerns, such as posttraumatic stress (PTSD), sleep problems, mood swings, or immune system problems. Somatic experiencing aims to restore the body's ability to self-regulate i n order to achieve balance and integrity.
Through the focal awareness of bodily sensation, individuals are able to access these restorative physiological action patterns. This allows the highly aroused survival energies to be safely and gradually neutralized. Unregulated arousal previously locked in the neuromuscular and central nervous system can be discharged and completed, thus preventing and resolving traumatic systems.