Healing Trauma - Peter Levine

I listened to a useful talk on the Sounds True Website. It sounds like Peter Levine is doing some fine and needed work to help alleviate the suffering due to past trauma. His method seems to be to be aware that we are not back in the past and to notice what we are feeling in our body without trying to change it, in the presence of a stable, caring, and accepting person. Shaking and trembling can be a great help.

In some ways we have it harder than animals who do not have as much cognitive capacity to replay the past and worry about the future. On the other hand we can use our cognitive capacities to better prepare for a potentially dangerous future.

He assures us that we can rebound from trauma, reset our nervous system, and go on with our lives. May this be so.

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