Healing is more about accepting the pain and finding a way to peacefully co-exist with it. In the sea of life, pain is a tide that will ebb and weave, continually.
We need to learn how to let it wash over us, without drowning in it. Our life doesn't have to end where the pain begins, but rather, it is where we start to mend.
Tags: life inspirational pain words-of-wisdom healing wise-words
One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.
Peter A. LevineTags: fear mind memory body healing treatment mental-health terror mental-illness posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd freeze frozen overwhelmed traumatized healing-trauma fight-flight frozen-in-time
So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is profoundly unconscious and forms the basis for the imprint trauma leaves on the body/mind. The type of memory utilized in learning most physical activities (walking, riding a bike, skiing, etc.) is a form of implicit memory called procedural memory. Procedural or "body memories" are learned sequences of coordinated "motor acts" chained together into meaningful actions. You may not remember explicitly how and when you learned them, but, at the appropriate moment, they are (implicitly) "recalled" and mobilized (acted out) simultaneously. These memories (action patterns) are formed and orchestrated largely by involuntary structures in the cerebellum and basal ganglia.
When a person is exposed to overwhelming stress, threat or injury, they develop a procedural memory. Trauma occurs when these implicit procedures are not neutralized. The failure to restore homeostasis is at the basis for the maladaptive and debilitating symptoms of trauma.
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In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend themselves. The very structure of trauma, including activation, dissociation and freezing are based on the evolution of survival behaviors. When threatened or injured, all animals draw from a "library" of possible responses. We orient, dodge, duck, stiffen, brace, retract, fight, flee, freeze, collapse, etc. All of these coordinated responses are somatically based- they are things that the body does to protect and defend itself. It is when these orienting and defending responses are overwhelmed that we see trauma.
The bodies of traumatized people portray "snapshots" of their unsuccessful attempts to defend themselves in the face of threat and injury. Trauma is a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. For example, when we prepare to fight or to flee, muscles throughout our entire body are tensed in specific patterns of high energy readiness. When we are unable to complete the appropriate actions, we fail to discharge the tremendous energy generated by our survival preparations. This energy becomes fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness. The person then stays in a state of acute and then chronic arousal and dysfunction in the central nervous system. Traumatized people are not suffering from a disease in the normal sense of the word- they have become stuck in an aroused state. It is difficult if not impossible to function normally under these circumstances.
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Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
Peter A. LevineTags: healing gift relief posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd traumatized trauma-experiences traumatic-stress trauma-healing post-traumatic-stress-disorder traumatic-epiphonies posttraumatic-stress
Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.
Angela N. BlountTags: inspirational hope healing damaged damaged-souls
The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: consciousness awareness healing wholeness
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: inspirational consciousness love acceptance compassion inspiration self-acceptance peace god spiritual religion spirituality self-awareness unity appreciation awareness healing enlightenment divinity wholeness oneness self-love know-thyself
The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: consciousness power suffering spirituality appreciation awareness healing enlightenment resistance illumination oneness blessing
When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: inspirational consciousness love buddhism compassion inspiration identity peace spiritual spirituality self-awareness meditation awareness healing gratitude awakening wholeness oneness self-love know-thyself
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