{"id":220,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:32:51","slug":"somatic-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Somatic Experiencing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Waking-Tiger-Transform-Overwhelming-Experiences\/dp\/155643233X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1289603547&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Dr. Peter Levine\u2019s book<\/span><\/a> &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>Waking the Tiger<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;, explains that humans are often frozen in trauma, unlike animals who daily cope with the unpredictability of nature. If not released, the energy of a trauma remains trapped within the brain and within the body&#8217;s musculature, tissues, joints &amp; organs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">Like Snow White awaiting her restoration to life once the poisoned apple is dislodged, those with deep psychological scars have disassociated the memory from their minds and are living in a numbed, tensed body.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">After decades of dealing with patients with major traumas, Dr. Levine concluded that permanent healing comes when humans release their often long-held trauma. He calls his bottom-up <a href=\"?p=665\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">&#8216;felt sense&#8217;<\/span><\/a> healing method <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traumahealing.com\/somatic-experiencing\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">&#8216;Somatic Experiencing&#8217;<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">After trauma patients confirm that they are now in a safe place, practitioners of this method guide them back to a state of being prior to the traumatic event. They tell them to visualize the &#8216;attacker&#8217; before the attack. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">Then they let them imagine + experience in their mind + body what they would have done to avoid the attack. This allows them to release the pent-up emotions and energy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=221\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 262px; height: 233px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/joke-3.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Levine\u2019s book &#8220;Waking the Tiger&#8220;, explains that humans are often frozen in trauma, unlike animals who daily cope with the unpredictability of nature. If not released, the energy of a trauma remains trapped within the brain and within the body&#8217;s musculature, tissues, joints &amp; organs. 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