Below are the best articles we could find on Somatic Experiencing and mind body connection.
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Back in the 60s, I started developing various kinds of mind–body methods with people who had high blood pressure. When I taught them how to relax certain muscles in their neck and jaw, their blood pressure would sometimes drop 20 or 30 points, well into the normal range.
Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.
Roxanne Dault, Meido Moore, and Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam discuss what it means to understand Buddhism through the body — the heart of the Buddhist path.
Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.
So Peter, you've spent most of your life working with trauma and traumatized patients, and have developed an approach called Somatic Experiencing® that focuses on including, and putting emphasis, on the physiological aspects of trauma.
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My interest in the essential role played by bodily responses in the genesis and treatment of panic anxiety and trauma began quite accidentally in 1969. A psychiatrist, knowing of my interest in “mind/body healing”-a fledging arena at the time, had referred a young woman to see me.
Peter Levine recently received the eminent Psychotherapy Network Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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