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Healing Tauma
By Dr. Peter A. Levine
"His evocative ideas, so simple one wonders why they have never been grasped before, show how traumas should be addressed and healed.”
—International Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Researchers have shown that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure life-long symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to unexplained physical pain, fatigue, illness, and harmful “acting out” behaviors reflecting these painful events. Today, millions in both the bodywork and the psychotherapeutic fields are turning to Peter A. Levines breakthrough Somatic Experiencing™ methods to effectively overcome these challenges. In Healing Trauma, Dr. Levine gives readers the personal how-to guide for using the theory he first introduced in his highly acclaimed work Waking the Tiger (North Atlantic Books, 1997), including:
• How to develop body awareness to “re-negotiate” and heal traumas—rather than relive them • Emergency “first-aid” measures for emotional distress
• Plus an 80-minute CD of guided Somatic Experiencing™ techniques including the “feeling the body as a container” exercise to re-establish healthy boundaries; “finding safety in the body” exercises to cultivate the inner capacity to heal; and the “pendulation” technique for restoring the bodys natural rhythms, and moving blocked tension and feelings of helplessness
“Trauma is a fact of life,” teaches Peter Levine, “but it doesnt have to be a life sentence.” Now, with one fully integrated self-healing tool, he shares his essential methods to address unexplained symptoms of trauma at their source—the body—to return us to the natural state we are meant to live in.
CD, 80 minutes, 91-page hardcover book
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