Learned some tension releasing exercises called TRE – which reaffirmed my belief that it’s all … yoga; but of a different kind. I tend to have the typical stiff tight shoulders and neck area and never thought of gut area to be contracted so much but … it made sense. Seeing is believing when you see the tremors and shakes as though it’s acted out – there’s so much we hold inside ourselves in an effort to control and manage everything by juggling what amounts to non-essentials. Other than caring for the essentials, everything else is a circus act.
The human species is a living paradox. We have a biological imperative to let go of tension and an egotistical refusal to do so. Because most stress, anxiety, trauma and tension recovery has relied very heavily on psychology and ego centered interventions, they are sometimes only moderately effective.
Science is now searching for a new paradigm for stress and tension recovery that can address multi-cultural and national levels of tension, anxiety stress and PTSD. Cross-studies of multiple fields of science such as neuro-biology are discovering that this new paradigm for healing can be found right within the recesses of the human body itself.
Just as the human organism is designed to experience and endure difficult episodes, it is also designed to recover from these experiences. The body contains all the anatomical and physiological mechanisms necessary to restore itself to optimal health after the stress or danger has passed. In fact, recovering from tension is genetically encoded in us to complete our process and begin something new as a part of our unending cycle of evolution. Stress and trauma recovery is moving towards physiological interventions that capitalize on the human biological compulsion to resolve tension while simultaneously circumventing the ego’s fear of the recovery process.
– David Berceli, Ph.D.
We are complex:) Appreciating the complicity while finding the solution to be rather simple. We can shake it off:) Literally. So much stored in the psoas muscles and the rest as we internalize so much. Who knew? A gut feeling was always there though… no?
