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about a new form of healing called EFT—Emotional Freedom Technique.2 Developed by engineer and self-help author Gary Craig,
Amy L. Lansky PhD • Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within
The way to move people out of both states—stress with accompanying fight-or-flight behaviors (mobilization with fear) and depressive feelings behaviors with shutdown (immobilization with fear)—is to activate the ventral branch of their vagus nerve.
Stanley Rosenberg • Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
It is amazing how many psychological problems involve difficulties with sleep, appetite, touch, digestion, and arousal. Any effective treatment for trauma has to address these basic housekeeping functions of the body.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Being able to move and do something to protect oneself is a critical factor in determining whether or not a horrible experience will leave long-lasting scars.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Neurogenic tremors therefore appear to be providing the environment for the extinction of negative, and the formation of positive neural nets. Neurogenic tremors therefore, seem to be able to inhibit, or down regulate the amygdala. All effective therapy works through this mechanism.
David Berceli • Shake It Off Naturally: Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Tension with [TRE]
Having explored Earth changes of the last 20,000 years and how humans are traumatized by them, I can see that humans cease being violent when they release their trauma and recover their story; they get back into the now, or current space and time. This is why we have healers working during Activations.
Barbara Hand Clow • The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
Stephen W. Porges • 1 highlight
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Two brain systems are relevant for the mental processing of trauma: those dealing with emotional intensity and context.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
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