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I've been asked this question along with why it presents in your body. Long story short.... When an offending event enables you to fight or run to get away from real or perceived danger, the likelihood of trauma getting stuck and creating reactive patterns diminishes significantly. When you are defenseless against the potential harm, you freeze and store that energy of trauma within you unknowingly. It creates patterns of reactivity and posture that block you from moving forward until you feel the pain of it and choose to liberate it. Trauma is truly a broad reaching word for an experience of being threatened...with physical safety, unmet needs or rejection of belonging. And the post traumatic pattern develops when there's no awareness that this energy has set up camp in your body. There are absolutely individual variations of the affect on people, but essentially... Trauma event or series of events > successful fight and flee or knowing that one is ok > energy liberated Trauma event or series of events > trapped in physical or lack of knowing that one is ok > energy stuck in the body This is why being threatened as a child can hook us into body and mind patterns that sabotage our life. We don't have the stature or the analytical capacities to empower our circumstances. We can release this energy in several ways. When we completely liberate this energy it's a process called "cycling". Massage, movement and somatic presence can all start to move this, but staying with the feelings and sensations until it is transmuted, changes the patterns. The physical tools are powerful, but the somatic presence along with it gets at the root of the pattern so it can move on. Please join me Live on Friday to see how this works. It still astounds me how powerful it is. Wishing you well :)
As is often the case, my own process of change has lead me to my purposeful pursuit...guiding others in understanding that they can become much more than they have believed up til now. I have certainly resided in a mindset where limitations instruct my actions. I am still breaking through some of those barriers, but can remember clearly how small I have played in my past. It really has done a dis-service to myself and others. Stepping through, not around, the emotions of fear, anger and shame has allowed me to give such value on the other side. And the body is the avenue through which we experience these states of being. While they're emotions, the energy they create within you forms the posture and movement that tells the story. It's why I teach transformation through the connection to the body...the somatic experience. This is my avenue for change and making a difference in my corner of the world. I teach to the expertise I have gained in study and professional experience, but with the personal practice that helps me to know it's depth of value. I am grateful to have reached this point and know that there are lives that I can change. Please reach out to me if you need help in your journey to transform your pain. Here's my schedule if you feel that I can help... Wishing you well :)
So-as (psoas) is one of the challenge structures of the low back and hips. It's stress responsiveness and depth in the abdomen and hips makes it less accessible to people from a feeling standpoint. It's anatomic length and position can cause it to create low back pain and hip tightness. Because of it's tightness, the connection to the diaphragm through fascial linkages can be a cause of faulty breathing patterns. As well, the stress reactivity that creates shallow and rapid inhale and exhale will inhibit the diaphragm from expanding. You will lose both the gentle lengthening that they create together and a calm nervous system when these structures are not free and functional. Without awareness of how this connection is linked in your body, you may be missing a big piece of anatomical health. And the emotional shifts that can come when the tension of a guarded structure is held and processed. You can only truly achieve this by being focused in the moment with these sensations and the feelings that arise. There are many physical tools that can be used, but somatic presence is the lynchpin that allows the pattern to change and transform the way you experience your body and the emotional state that underlies it. I will be showing you later in the week one of the exercises to become aware of this meaningful connection in your body. In the meantime, feel free to message me here if you'd like to understand more. Or schedule a free call with me . Sending love and warm wishes :)
