This is a video excerpt featuring Peter Levine, Ph.D., from his video lecture entitled "How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness". For details on the full video and to order, please visit the @PESIInc website at bit.ly/33wNfDS
I just went to a massage therapist who did some emotional release work on me...since that time last week...I feel almost completely freed from 48 yrs of terror from my brother trying to kill me when I was a preteen! FABULOUS! Sure beats 17 years of therapy going no where!
Sharminty I’m not sure it is new...she claimed it was her modality that she used...she told me she could feel tightness in my chest muscles (like when I was protecting my front side from my brother who was trying to choke me at age 12). She did some sort of chest compressions & afterward...unbeknownst to me, but not to her, the tears poured forth! (She is also a Reiki Practitioner...I know she wasn’t using Reiki at this medical setting, but it does give one a more heightened intuition! I only know that because I had been a Reiki 1 & experienced that myself.)
Cynthia, that was deep tissue massage. When you went through that event with your brother 48 yrs ago, you were traumatized to the extent that you were overwhelmed and could not process the emotions you experienced. As a result, those emotions got stored in the chest area of your physical body and have been there all this time, buried alive. And I'm sure that on more than one occasion, you've had subsequent experiences that triggered those same emotions and the same feelings of fear and overwhelm. When you had your massage, the therapist created a safe space where you felt comfortable and you allowed yourself to feel vulnerable. Then, when he/she worked on your chest area, your subconscious (you) allowed you to experience (feel) those pent up emotions, and you were able to process and release them from your physical body. That is Deep Healing at a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. Great work! I would recommend you have a few more sessions to make sure you're cleared. The next time, with conscious awareness of the process, you might release other trapped emotions. Emotional release work is like peeling an onion - you heal a layer at a time. Your soul won't allow you to experience more than you are ready to handle at a given moment; the healing happens in your own good time. God Bless!!!
T I Thank you! I appreciate you telling me that! Now that I think of it...I learned that from a video after I posted this...but I needed the reminder, as I’m coming off a Benzodiazepine & it messes with one’s memory....actually...it’s really Central Nervous System Injury recovery! So...thanks again! 🙏🏼
Peter Levine is the bomb. Thank goodness for people like him and Dr Schubinar and others who know how most of our physical and mental issues are caused by trauma. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Very Helpful. I have had much trauma and need to rewire my brain. I needed medication to get started but will change my thought process. And in time will be healed. Thank You Jesus!
There’s a minimum of three generations of this in my family, with me being the third. So glad I found the resources to work to resolve this, I feel so fortunate.
I am also in a constant state of fight or flight due to PTSD from teen trauma. I started doing martial arts (as an old woman) and found such deep relaxation (or maybe that's just how normal people feel all the time). I have been doing it for 9 years now and at 50 years old I have a black belt in karate and have concurrently done some MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. HOWEVER, the "resolution" of my symptoms (nervousness, jumpiness, etc.) only lasts for a few days to a week at the max. Would love to know how I can find peace more long-term as the injuries are starting to build up and slow me down from the one-to-one combat sessions. Ciao from Italy! L
Try meditation. And don't listen to anyone else about the way to do it. Follow yourself, your own body, your natural breath. It's only about relaxing the body enough to allow the things in your mind and spirit to arise safely. Be careful, and don't do that which makes you uncomfortable. And when something unpleasant arises, determine if you can allow it to pass through you. If you can't, change your minds direction; and if you can allow it to pass through you and let it arise and embody it, and it will pass through and out of you. Please be careful and follow your intuition. Sending love ❤️
@@sofiafantin5280 Grazie Sogfa, la tua domanda mi ha riportato a vedere questo bellissimo video di nuovo. Poco dopo il mio commento avevo preso una storta al ginocchio durante la lotta - dopo 3 mesi di ricupero ho deciso che dovevo smettere le arti marziali. Senza questo sollievo stavo molto, molto male... ma finalmente mio figlio mi ha convinta di andare dal terapista e per la prima volta sto indirizzando la sorgente del mio PTSD. Non e' stato assolutamente facile, e sono ancora a meta'. Ma ho superato la parte difficile e sto trovando un modo per fare uscire la mia rabbia, paura, rimpianti e rimorsi senza usare pugni e calci. Quanto mi sarebbe piaciuto che mi avrebbe funzionato il metodo di Levine in un giorno (che lui stesso dice non e' sempre possibile)... ma invece ci vuole un esperto che sa navigare le acque. Ti consiglio di non aspettare e cercare di risolvere le cose da sola - perche se eravamo capici non avremmo gia' riuscito!?- e di trovare un terapista per il sostegno. Ciao! L
Thank you dr Levine! I have chronic PTSD most severe after hit by a car never got help emotionally of course then multiple traumas to the point of complete breakdown. My body is a big wound but its going to heal!
My 🇬🇧 physiotherapist , a very special man suggested that I research Peter Levine. I have IBS, ME, multiple Chemical Sensitivity, PPPD, PTSD and fibromyalgia. I have been waiting for Peter Levine for support and guidance to restore my health. Let the journey begin. Heartfelt gratitude to Terry, my physio for his loving kindness and care.
Amazing! Thank you! My favorite aspect of this story is Dr Peter Levine's trust in his own intuition - and that he dared to share his waking vision of the tiger about to leap, and said,, "Nancy! There's a tiger! Run! Climb those rocks!" And the strength of his conviction was so great that Nancy's legs made running movements for 40 minutes! What might change in our lives and the lives of those we care about, if we all trusted our intuition like that?
It was so hard to see my mom so broken because of a car accident. Panic attacks, anxiety, calling me 30 times per day, because she didn't feel safe, couldn't sleep, lost all her muscles and fat, she bacame bony. And the worst is that doctors don't know how to stabilise so severe attacks. I think that people like this should first check blood and urine for lacking vitamins and minerals, probably also lacking hormones. My mom was lacking cholesterol, vitamine d, DHEA, progesterone... Too much of testosterone, estrogene, cortisol, and in comparison to other hormones too much of thyroid hormones. In my opinion neurologists and psychiatrists should learn more how stabilise such difficulties. Right now they believe too much in the holy 💊... They are on the wrong path. I can say for sure they have no idea how to deal with this.
See utube dr.daniel Amen brain spect scans & exams, treatments. Also three special s on PBS he's famous brain specialist. Accupuncture master o.m.d. never a student, ask to have spirit reset. Hour ,quiet ,clothes on, $75-150. Usually once, best at full moon, sit quiet afterward not driving then be alone to sleep after. No hot baths or showers : see utube 15 min qiqong woman ,do a.m.,p.m will help reset spirit and ground . Be vegatarian,or vegan. Never alcohol or coffee it causes wabble in Aura. Homophathic MD ND usually once. RX specific. Prayers. 🙏💓
I am encouraged by the new awareness & understanding around this topic of trauma. I do believe - with loving care & guidance - a person can gain a foothold & experience relief & even joy .. The most important thing is good self care - and to keep trying to get professional care. ☺️🫖🧡🌈📝👍🏼
..... There are serious forms ....... of "Divine intervention"! ....... Yes! the human body ...... does have the capacity to release ...... traumatic energies.
I was a happy person always smiling but one day I was attacked by a young couple but that was not the trauma. I was fortunate that the police arrived as the third person decided to join in. The trauma is I realized that my neighbor had been watching the whole thing in joy and came forward to get a better view. Since then I have to chew gum for the anxiety and I have been eating sugar. So my trauma is not as bad as other but none the less it is there. I refuse to do medication. I am slowly searching to release this trauma.
@@MysteryGrey No my neighbor did not call the police. While the attacker went to get back up and I went to the corner to get the police. My blessing is that they were taking a taser class so were happy to come over.
I knew that i had CPTSD - and was in therapy. i have Fibromyalgia and a host of things. I also had no memory of my past. That changed when i got in an accident , and a pain specialist that knew my psychologist started doing what he called Super Acupuncture with long needles . My entire body would shake like a seizure no matter where he treated; and he always asked if i had someone to follow up with. I did , and fortunately we were able to work and get me started with healing i will be doing the rest of my life. that's all i can say
Listening to Pat Ogden and Peter Levine on value of somatic sensing in treating trauma confirms my experience using TRAGER bodymind movement re-education to help people release restrictive patterns. They feel themselves in a new way.
That’s just from one incident. What about people with CPTSD who were traumatized by parents hundreds and thousands of times before they could get away?
What are the body's indicators that we are healing or in a state of equilibrium. Considering the mind emotional and body's impact to trauma are massive and noticeable
I wrote this six days ago. I can answer my own question because I have been experiencing the equilibrium regarding the rest and digest system, which keeps the body calm and safe. This has impacted my mind, memory, body, and energy. It's a strange sensation to have, both calming and invigorating at the same time.
I think I’m going through the exact same thing. I was given gas as 7 year old before a operation 40 years ago and had a huge panic reaction to it. After a recent “nervous breakdown” I’ve totally lost the ability to relax and get any form of good sleep. Whenever I try to sleep my body will violently jerk and twitch
Magnesium glycinate double the dosage ,l theanine 200mg twice daily, inositol up to 12 grams twice daily, ashwagandha twice daily and 2000mg taurine 1000mg in the morning and 1000mg at bedtime. Deep breathing for 15 minutes before bed,and before you leave your home. Pray, pray,and pray 🙏. Jesus christ will pull you out of the mud and mire,it is written 🙏 God bless you 🙏.
That sounds like psychogenic seizures. I would recommend to try Accelerated Resolution Therapy online or in person locally. It usually costs less than $200 and I wouldn’t be surprised if the seizures go away the same day.
Its one thing to share this info on video on line, but its another to take responsibility if a member of audience has a reaction. My reaction this is one of crying with compassion this time, which can be very overwhelming and left without help and support. The medical, specialists, scientists and members of communities that allow people to sit on their own and not lift up a finger to help, nor care about members of the audience who can be affected by even watching videos like this, without some sort of trigger warning given to the video. When you are left with unresolved issues and there is no way to resolve them, I am thankful that there is remission but I have had enough of one people group gets released at the expense of other people groups who will never get released but thank goodness they can have remission. To the medical and specisalists communities that break trust and hurt their patients and clients there is just an all encompassing silence that is engulfed with a cry that can not stop and a compassion that doesn't lift up a finger to help and leaves people on their own isolated to deal with that which they can not deal with nor any person nor any healing practice nor any therapy nor any one doctor nor any research,nor any type of treatment. Its not ok because they have to live in isolation and silence with a cry that does not stop because that cry is called grief.
Have you tried Gilenya by Novartis? I know the actual person its named after. He's fully recovered and looks 20 years younger than his age. He said Novartis gives you just enough of the drug to get better but not fully healed...its a Mushroom. (A higher dosage could be a 100% cure) but he said the real key is using an inversion board to stretch the spine so the drug gets in there. This is imperative. Also I've learned about how fasting can reverse autoimmune issues and has worked for many. Hope this helps you.
Nettie root or leaf for allergies and sore joints. Used over 2 thousand years. Look it up, please. I have been talking it for years and I live in north florida. God loves us.
I’m confused, I’m just over 50, my health is shit, I have some of what u described about your patient, tachycardia, fibromyalgia, hashimotos, and a bad spine, had my neck fused in my 30s and now need more cervical surgery. It’s only been recent that I found out about ACES, and how it results in disease and early death. The real shitty part about that is that it makes sense, but it reenforces my feeling of being cursed, and here you are claiming that the body can release the crap and reinstate health. Relive the events and recover. However in my life the events are too numerous, from all 10 areas of ACES, and I even had to deal with some repressed memories. If you really believe this, than come help me, cause this shit is killing me! But I feel this is again, just another doctor putting everybody in the same box, and I’ve never fit in any box. I’ve been dealing with my horrors of this life since I was around 12, forty years of therapy, and all that’s done is caused more trauma! I’m sick of being sick, and I’m tired of being broken, I just wish you doctors would just be honest, and admit, some shit can’t be fixed!!
First off, I am giving up feeling like I’m the failure in therapy. Leaving empty. I am a social worker and I think a lot of therapist aren’t good with real trauma. If you aren’t able to give a patient what they need find resources don’t keep wasting their time or money seeing you.. I would do deeper work and get in trouble for it. I’m going back to the drawing board of my life. The pandemic has brought up issues I no longer can avoid Blessing? Maybe. I’m reaching out here... I have difficulty reaching out to people. I know I must. But I’m obsessed thinking of the family members who hate me. So I feel that’s what I will get. It’s like shame. Now, isolating. Well it’s not good. I m playing tapes joined a zoom meditation but at the end I quickly leave. Anxiety overwhelms. Tomorrow I’ll linger and say hello. Otherwise I’m floating out here alone. No one knows or cares. I ll try again to explain to my therapist. (Insurance). DONT GIVE UP. you deserve to feel better. 🙏🏻💜
@@JnTmarie I haven't met a psychiatric professional yet, in 35 years of seeking help, who has had any truly helpful advice and doesn't transfer their discomfort about my experiences into victim-blaming and further abuse. Until I reached out to others on the autism spectrum about their experiences, I didn't realize that this is the norm. Having the support of friends I can trust and acceptance that most people I encounter are not trustworthy has given me a safe space to work in to heal most of the time.
keep the faith. maybe check fasterEFT about tapping emotional issues,,,and also try reading Joe Dispenza audiobooks, specially the one called "You are the placebo". Blessings
Interesting how these ancient writings from the bible talk about what you believe and what you say is who and what you are! Like what a man believes in his heart so is he!
During all those years that she was sick, she never said anything to her doctors about being traumatized by her tonsillitis? I find that hard to believe. Either the doctors are incompetent for not figuring out the cause of trauma or this woman didn’t see any need to say anything about it. even if she did, even doctors of today had no understanding of the importance of resolving trauma. And the way, Dr. Levine released this woman from her trauma looks too simple to me for it to have the effect he said it had. Carl Jung discovered the importance of legitimate suffering and it’s my understanding that this kind of suffering is what liberates us from trauma. Jung said that “all neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering“. Jung also has to be a wounded healer. By that he means that the therapist must know experientially what legitimate suffering actually is. without it, there’s no way a therapist can help a person with trauma. You can have a PhD 10 times over and it would not make a particle of difference to any person suffering from trauma.
Anne.kleinman .. the 1st my elder brother,.2nd my e husband, . 3rd rebound,.then latterly a.4th. I've.had all the physical symptoms,psycho. Therapists, . E.C.T. medical drugs and latterly spiritual.help via prayer. At last I feel the battle over,.I need good food, care, and exercise, I know I'm free.atlast. May need ongoing therapy from Psych. but I've reached the end, I'm tired.but I'm free.
@@ColtraneTaylor As a 4 year old she was terrified..(I'm dying she cried)The nervous system is responding to terror by initiating flight/fight/ freeze response.In this response an enormous amount of energy is afforded to the person to either flee or fight..She was held down so she could do Neither.. If that response can not be completed that energy gets stuck in our bodies..She has been scared for decades..Her physical ailments were testament to that..What happened in her session with Peter is that she finally could do what she and her nervous system wanted to do when she was 4..The flight response was completed in her running(Taking into account that the brain doesn't know the difference between reality and imagination)and that stuck energy was able to finally be released...Hope this helps..
@@suehowie152 Ok, thanks for explaining. I'm just wondering though if any good scare will help people release that energy. Or maybe I'm guessing that doesn't work on the physical level.
Because she was unable to,as a child,complete her flight impulse..Her nervous system geared her for fight or flight in her terror but she was held down..Fight and flight responses produce enormous energy to the body and if not completed that energy becomes stuck..Peter helped her to complete the flight response..
I definitely do NOT agree with this so- called doctor that hasn’t experience trauma or abuse himself! I wish after trauma & abuse it was this easy. Nope! Nothing goes away after one session crazy what he just said. It is a journey to heal any trauma or abuse etc. Nothing heals overnight or with exercise that quick you do need therapy. Abuse changes your brain they are finding, too. I was abused suffered trauma from my husband and father it isn’t a quick fix & easy it’s extremely hard to recover from being hurt by those you think love you. I don’t get it! Wish it was simple to heal.
It's sad but there's a few people in the comments section here that are obvious in agony and are fed up from looking for a solution , it's understandable but that being said, you are misrepresenting Levine. He never said it was easy all the time it's usually grueling work, keep pushing 💪
I agree, I went into trauma recently after befriending a man who has a deeply troubled past and is a narcissist. He pulled something on me that triggered huge trauma, so much so it was shocking. And its not as if I was so obsessed about him that it was over him. It was buried stored huge pain and suffering...and it was incredibly scary to realize how much I had buried away. This is an extremely serious subject. Absolutely scary how much is stored in our genetic makeup. So sad.
Lot of bla bla bla, without mentioning how😖 better work on our belifsystems and eliminate them. Program the mind with new ones more positive and empowering. Remember, its not the trauma that happened to you, its the meaning you gave it that keeps you in suffering. Much love❤❤❤
What happens when the trauma occurred at a very early age, and you don't even remember most of it? You simply react a certain way, and it takes doctors and psychologists to tell you that your trauma occurred at a very early immature age, when there were no coping skills. Now as an adult, that part of you, still does not have the proper coping skills to be able to unstrap oneself from the behavior the trauma has caused. Little memories of hiding inside of a closet at an age when she/he was wearing diapers. This is the only memory. How does one change his/her attitude about the events?
Helen Campanha I’ve heard of those who practice Regression Hypnosis, like Dr. Brian Weiss & Marisa Peer. Also...if one is not medicated with the pistons used by psychiatry, then there is yoga for trauma! I just found this...as I also have trauma my mother told me about that I could never remember & im sure there’s more from my brother at age 11 trying to kill me more than once when I was first brought home! I’m now going to an AWESOME Massage Therapist who is able to move stuck emotions in the body! They can feel where you’re holding them & they do a special Emotional Release technique! She removed 48 yrs of that garbage in 1 session! She also knew I was going to cry before I did! It was very cleansing! Best wishes! Oh! I just heard this from a therapist...they’re now teaching children with PTSD that they can revise their memories of what happened & they teach them to chose a hero to help them in their dreams! It can be any kind of helper...they teach them that this helper will help them in their bad dreams & they think about this helper right before sleep! I can’t remember what it is called, but it sounds wonderful for the children! So...I asked why she did not tell me the children were revising their memories, as I have much trauma? She said...”you never asked me!” Flipping lame excuse! She’s almost the top person there! I have had a lot of trauma & I cannot believe I’ve been going to see her for 18 yrs to just “talk!” 🙄
It seems so wildly impossible to imagine that the people still willfully in a comatose state after a year of this insanity... will ever wake up. I don't know what to think any more... Sometimes I'm certain it's all a mass awakening happening at turtle-speed, and all is perfect; divine timing. Other times... watching zombies in masks, salivating with excitement over the mark of the beast... that's when I lose my ability to hold on to hope... (I also heard David icke speak in an interview about the coming of 6g and 7g! How will humanity survive that?)
After forty healers and therapists, my first understanding of trauma and PTSD came from a stranger in a cafe doing work with Peter. I had "healing trauma" ordered on Audible within 10 minutes of grasping what trauma and PTSD was and was doing exercises later that day and ordering other books, such as The Body Keeps the Score. The fact that after $150k in therapy I learned about trauma from a stranger in a cafe and not from any of my therapists alarms me because I get this is not personal - that a majority of therapists are too ignorant about their ignorance to serve their clients well. This prompted me to go back to healers and therapists and tell them "you needed to help me with trauma or refer to me to a trauma therapist." Listening to their various excuses was astounding. They boiled down to "trauma is not our specialty so we don't need to learn about trauma and will not be doing so now." This was so incompetent I found it disgusting. I still have not found therapists that are 100% focused on what's good for their clients. Since a stranger in a cafe did more for me around trauma than any therapist, I decided to pass the gift along with what I've learned from 1000 hours of reading and study: www.UnderstandTrauma.com
Thanks for sharing... recently saw a therapist claiming to specialise in trauma. I got a young girl who told me that I'm overwhelmed and burnt out! Duh! Will checkyour link.
