Signs of Releasing Trauma
Most suppress these normal, healthy behaviors. Your head takes over, leaving the body's wisdom behind. Try enjoying these natural indicators of your body's wisdom: yawning, sighing, sudden warm perspiration, goose bumps, eyes watering, nose running, digestion working again, gurgling happily.After a car accident or fright, your body shakes, discharging the state that would have turned into trauma. When your nervous system recharges, colors look brighter, you feel like you have options again, you take an interest in people again.
Saying "Yes" to Life
As you learn to observe body sensations, you start to "renegotiate" and heal traumatic experiences rather than relive them. You awaken your body's instinctive organic intelligence that has a built-in immunity to trauma.As Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing says, stuck trauma reactions feel like "an internal straight jacket created when devastating moments are frozen in time." When these energies are discharged, you start to feel relaxed, at ease, alert, responsive. You can say "yes" to life again.
If you'd like some help with trauma reactions, whether it is a car accident, surgery, family difficulties, or abuse, Somatic Experiencing could gently return your well being.
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