The Somatic Experience(S.E) therapy, The meditation of science Part #1.
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Dr. Kathy Lowy is a Doctor of Science
She was the first to expose me to this method.
And I thank her every day.
A somatic experience is a method invented by Dr. Peter Levine,
A method based on the fact that animals in nature do not suffer from trauma, the natural animals are in much more difficult situations than us humans and they do not suffer from almost traumas ...
In Peter Levine's study, he says that it is the animals that suffer from a trauma because they are close to humans for most of the times lol.
You have to understand that trauma can cause a lot of things, depression, anxiety, violence, and tantrums.
As well as to the formulations of mental illness.
Healing trauma can cure many of these things.
So, what is going on? and how does it differ from other methods (Especially conventional and traditional)
Many methods try to deal with anxiety.
Freudian methods claim that the root problem must be overwhelmed by the unconscious and consciously treated through all sorts of therapies designed for the same mental illness or trauma.
For example, people who are afraid of dogs(Anxious)
Psychologists expose them to dogs until they get used to it and stop being afraid.
These methods are very exhausting to the patient and many times the patient does not have the strength to stand up to them. This method is called the CBT method(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Another example:
If you are afraid to die, write down the word death (or any word related to death that makes you anxious)
And read the note with those words for an hour every day for a week.
Dr Peter Levine has discovered in his research that although this can help anxiety or trauma, it is not a solution
For three main reasons:
- It treats a person in a way that is much more biased towards the psychological and ignores the body
- They deal with bad and not good So the brain gets used to thinking about the things that frighten him .
- The circle that opens in the nervous system does not close.
The method has been in successful clinical use for over 45 years.
Dr. Peter Levin discovered that when a person is in an extreme state of anxiety, he is in an unfinished circle.
When his primitive part of the brain controls his life much more than the rational part.
2 types that focus on them
- The reptilian-survival brain
- The rational neocortex
Because the reptile brain responds at a rate of 1/7 from the part of the neocortex, the release state from stress and tension and trauma takes longer.
What you do with the S.E method is to talk to the primitive brain.
When you speak his language, you can brush and clean the nervous system from all sorts of things that have been imprisoned inside it.
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I will give an example:
A person who has made a big accident should tremble and cry, or at least somehow release the pressures.
Instead he is going to exchange details with the other car owner to get money from the insurance and not to leave a must, at that moment he has stored in his nervous system another problem that remains there until he releases it because he didn't listen to his body and he listened to his rational.
Many triggers can trigger anxiety every time anew and it will not go away until it does what its body requires for life!
For this there is exactly the method of somatic experience, a method that when applied is hard to believe in the wonderful feelings it gives.
We will continue to discuss this issue tomorrow.
And we will also reach application stages and quotations of treatments within rooms.
I have read it without a breath!
very interesting information and you tell it so easy and clear that even me (a foreigner) can catch the idea easily!
Thank you for this!
A topic is so amazing! I am fond of psychology (though some years ago I though it's not a science but a fraud), but then I have changed my mind because I did see the results from its methods!
And this one, you were describing, seems to be one more of my great discoverings in this sphere.
I am looking forward the 2nd part!
From recent experiences I have come across in my own inner process, the suggestions Dr. Levine offers are highly recommended. I have checked out a lot of self-styled healers, only a few make the grade. His compassion is obvious, he is not self-aggrandizing, his advice is very helpful. Maybe more a compassionate teacher than direct healer. But compassionate listening is itself great medicine.. @amiramnoam
I read the article carefully...I read the up-comment and compassion involved...If this is the case there is deeper understanding of the phenomenas produced by the Mind...The Mind is the one that controls the Senses and feels anxiety, stress...all other feelings you mentioned. The only thing always missing in other studies is the soul and energetic system of the body, highly important for solving psychiatrical puzzle...
Wow, great theories by Dr Peter Levin. Many thanks to Dr. Kathy Lowy for exposing you to this method and my sincere gratitude goes to @amiramnoam for exposing me to the method and theories. This is awesome and I've learnt what I never knew. Thanks a lot.💖
From what Ive read about it, I think it does work.
it's not limited to talking therapies which involve mostly the rational part of our brain, the most evolved brain area.
Trauma is residual survival energy that's become ‘stuck ’ in the body. During a traumatic experience our bodies release tremendous amounts of energy to help us remove ourselves from the threat or to fight it. Becoming paralyzed by fear whilsts handling huge surges of energy causes a parálisis and shut down response. As this energy is triggered by the survival - most primitive part of the brain , healing from trauma has to be worked through from here.
Joints and awareness ...
Keep your awareness in your joints and start with your toes and move your ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers very slowly. And at this moment you notice the feelings that are on the body. There is a facilitating effect to go to the
Dischargestep.Good read! This is the first time I've heard this kind of therapy and it seems very interesting. Thanks for much for sharing it.
Impressive methode, great job, i hope to see more of you, all support for u
thank you @amiramnoam for the information you provide and this is of course very useful for me and for other steemit friends, trauma is the most frightening thing, because if someone has experienced it, it will be difficult to eliminate it, especially after experiencing the bitter happenings in life, I hope you succeed always, I wait for your next posting
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The name suggests a link with sleep and dreams. Am I close?