If you haven't checked out Step 1: Nervous System Cleansing 101: Step 1 - Orientation, be sure to do so. If you don't, this won't make that much sense. I'm going to keep this post shorter so you can catch up with the first step of orientation. Part 3 is [...]
The ability to “orient” to your immediate surroundings is key in cleansing trauma from the nervous system. This audio session focuses on the practice of orientation. audio file: Level 1: Orientation (10 mins) . What to know about orientation When things like anxiety or a stressful situation threaten to overtake [...]
Stubbing my toe in Berkeley I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe [...]
Survival would be the answer to that question. I'm going to look at this survival idea from a very brain-oriented fashion. And rather than write about it extensively, I have a little audio ditty which you can listen to. But, I will write a few words as an intro...... [...]
It’s likely that sometime soon you’ll encounter some stress that will rev up your body’s physiology. It’s also possible that you’ve got some stress that’s still sitting in your system from yesterday, last week, last year, or a decade ago. Here’s the thing, our body getting hit with stress [...]
Click here to re-tweet "Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events." Why Do We Humans Get "Stuck" in our Traumatic Events While Animals in the Wild Don't? There is much to be learned from our fuzzy [...]
Today I ponder this: "Belly or Brain" A tiny bit of background. Moshe Feldenkrais' theories really got me jiving with the brain. Recently I've been studying the work of Dr. Peter Levine. The latter has put me back to my first love of physiology and biology. It has got me [...]
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