Healing Through Wildness
Hala discusses the unique human experience of trauma, highlighting how our advanced consciousness can sometimes hinder our instinctual responses. She emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with our bodies and natural impulses through embodied practices, which can aid trauma survivors in processing overwhelming emotions. Drawing parallels with animals, she illustrates how physical release, like shaking, is vital for healing and completing the fight or flight response.In this clip
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Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Have you had an episode where a somatic and embodiment coach spoke about trauma impacting our sense of feeling blocked and how we can achieve mental health through somatics, healing, and Ayahuasca ceremonies, specifically in relation to the episodes BEAT STRESS With Science by Discovering Your Vagus Nerve | Stefan Chmelik and Healing Through Movement?