Animals don’t
suffer from trauma. In all mammals under threat, massive amounts of energy are
mobilized in readiness for self-defense via the fight, flight, and freeze
responses, but once safe, animals spontaneously "discharge" this
excess energy through involuntary movements including shaking, trembling, and
deep spontaneous breaths.
But humans may
disrupt this process of discharging through rationalizations, judgments, shame,
enculturation, and fear of our bodily sensations. As a consequence, sleep,
cardiac, digestion, respiration, and the immune system can be seriously
disturbed, and an array of other physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
symptoms may occur.
The Somatic
Experience approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor
responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus
addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. Clients are gently guided to
develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed
emotions.
The traumatized
person is offered the opportunity to engage, complete and resolve in slow and
supported ways the body's instinctual fight, flight, freeze, and collapse
responses. Individuals locked in anxiety or rage then relax into a growing
sense of peace and safety. Those stuck in depression gradually find their
feelings of hopelessness and numbness transformed into empowerment, triumph,
and mastery.
After: www.traumahealing.com/somatic-experiencing/
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