There are fundamentally three avenues: 1) top down, by talking, (re-) connecting with others, and allowing ourselves to know and understand what is going on with us, while processing the memories of the trauma; 2) by taking medicines that shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organ

The general structure of this approach is: 1) Identify the negative cognition and recent incident that you would like to float back. 2) Lightly activate the recent incident to get a body feel. 3) Float back the negative cognition and the body feel to an approximate age. 4) Inquire about the context: Home, school, or community. 5) Bring up a floor p

Therapy could elicit ideas and emotions—but it had no direct way to connect patients to the forces they needed to change their lives. When I met Phil, I instantly realized he’d learned how to make that connection. The answer lay in the power of the tools he’d discovered.