Somatic / Trauma Resolution
- Reorganizes and integrates you into present time
- Creates resiliency with in your Central Nervous System
- Can be used in conjunction with other body therapies or by itself
Our bodies hold the whole of our experiences, both positive and negative. The organizations of those experiences are held in the brain stem (back brain). We
experience them as sensations, images, brief thoughts or phrases, colors, sound or smell.
The frontal cortex (front brain) gives order and meaning to our experiences…in other words, the cortex will think its way out of the situation. This has advantages.
The disadvantage of that is the process of discharging stress or trauma becomes cut short leaving remnants or larger pieces still held within the Central Nervous
System. Medically this can become know as General Alert Syndrome. The Nervous System can no longer let down and rest. From a psychological view, this is hyper-
vigilance. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Repetitive Stress / Trauma Dysfunction are also in this category though in much more severe form.
By using your awareness of body sensation, naming what it is; your organization around an event, person, etc., changes. There is no talking about what happened or
how you felt – as that can just tighten the organization more, leaving you with less ability for the Nervous System to change the held pattern. The result of which, you
can think it, but it does not become action.
My training from Sharon Porter PPT, RCST, S/TR includes:
- Knowing your Resources
- Dealing with Prolonged Illness
- Falls
- Automobile Accidents
- Birth Experience and Trauma
- Past Traumas and Internal Resources that Emerged
Recommended Reading:
* Waking the Tiger, by Peter Levine
* Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine
* The Power of Focusing, by Ann Cornell
* What To Say When You Talk to Your Body, by Shad helmstetter
* Invisible Heroes -Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal,
by Bellruth Naparstek
