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Why the Wrong Person Feels Like Home | Sheleana Aiyana
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Somatic Experiencing: Why the Body Heals What the Mind Cannot
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Four years into a healthy relationship, on the day of her wedding, Sheleana's nervous system launched into crisis: she needed to escape, even though she consciously knew she was safe and loved. Her body had never experienced a genuinely committed, fully healthy relationship and didn't know how to stay in one. Somatic experiencing — working at the level of organs and nerve pathways to help the body complete traumatic stress cycles it had gotten frozen in — became the answer. In a session, a practitioner might hold your kidneys, or allow a suppressed fight response to surface and guide it out of the system through movement (e.g. kicking while saying 'no') so the body can finally close the loop. Sheleana trained in it over four years and now guides her own clients through online somatic sessions. Lewis shares a parallel experience with BodyTalk therapy, describing his body shaking rhythmically on a table as energy moved through him without anyone touching him. Both agree: men are particularly resistant to these modalities, but the payoff is transformative. [1] — Sheleana Aiyana "Peter Levine's somatic experiencing works on the most subtle level — organs, nervous system — to help the body complete traumatic stress cy…" 1:03:12
Peter Levine's somatic experiencing works at the level of organs and the nervous system to help the body move out traumatic memories that cannot be resolved through thinking alone.
Peter Levine's somatic experiencing works on the most subtle level — organs, nervous system — to help the body complete traumatic stress cycles it got frozen in. A practitioner might hold your kidneys, allow a suppressed fight response to surface, then guide it out of your system. The result is behavioral change because the body has finally finished the interrupted process.
