Sublime

between negative emotional states and physical disease.

Clearing away stress and holding patterns in hands-on processes is a major purpose of listening through touch. Flow repatterning of movement, finding easy developmental pathways through matching, and then providing guidance, depends on sensitivity to touch and movement. One cannot repattern movement without first finding what patterns are present t

Are traumatized people condemned to seek refuge in what is familiar? If so, why, and is it possible to help them become attached to places and activities that are safe and pleasurable?

The heart of the matter lies in being able to recognize that trauma represents animal instincts gone awry. When harnessed, these instincts can be used by the conscious mind to transform traumatic symptoms into a state of well-being.

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.

Damasio

trauma. This chapter delineates the positive psychology framework of self-organizing systems of Organic Intelligence (OI)

When our physiology responds to an event or stimuli with arousal, we do not move into an orienting and defending response like a healthy human. Instead, we move directly from the arousal into immobility and helplessness, bypassing our other emotions as well as the normal sequence of responses. We become victims, waiting to be victimized again and a