How can SE help ?
Gloria Gonzalez, SEP, LMT
with SE Practitioner Gloria Gonzalez
Weight gain and low energy. Chronic pain, allergies, digestive disturbances. Headaches, dizziness, TMJ. Difficult relationships, frustration, depression, anxiety, procrastination, feeling stuck, or disconnected. We may be baffled, where do these symptoms come from? They are all possible signs of compressed energy, or trauma, in the body.
How does SE help clear symptoms ?
Trauma may be loosely defined as overwhelm in the body and mind: too much, too fast, too soon. In this overwhelm, the intelligence of the body employs the use of three basic self-protective responses, fight, flight and freeze. Because these responses create highly charged states in the body, our rational minds tend to override and inhibit their full expression. And it is this restraint that traps and compresses the energy in the body, causing the dysregulation of normal functions, physical, emotional and mental. Symptoms are a result of the body’s attempt to contain compressed energy. Contrary to modern belief, the resolution does not lie in stopping the symptom. Instead, an SE practitioner utilizes a dynamic interplay between memory, body sensations, and dialogue to gradually and safely discharge compressed frozen biological energy. The discharge and completion of this biological freeze response allows the nervous system to regain its inherent capacity to self-regulate. The completion of this former nervous system pattern results in an obvious reduction or disappearance of chronic symptoms.
Who Developed SE ?
Dr. Peter Levine developed Somatic Experiencing® by observing how wild prey animals, though threatened routinely, are rarely traumatized. Instead, they use innate mechanisms to regulate and discharge the high levels of arousal associated with life-threatening situations, allowing them to return to normal balance once the threat is over. Dr. Levine has doctorates in medical and biological physics from the University of California-Berkley and a Ph.D. in psychology from International University. He has researched the psychology and physiology of trauma for over 35 years and is the author of “Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma.”
