
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body

There could be only one explanation for such results: In response to the trauma itself, and in coping with the dread that persisted long afterward, these patients had learned to shut down the brain areas that transmit the visceral feelings and emotions that accompany and define terror. Yet in everyday life, those same brain areas are responsible fo
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

In other words trauma makes people feel like either some body else, or like no body. In order to overcome trauma, you need help to get back in touch with your body, with your Self.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
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