Our Healing Instincts

Waking the Tiger is Peter Levine's book on healing traumas. Although I am not a psychologist or therapist, its powerful and natural method is intensely appealing. Everybody in his or her life is bound to obtain traumas. This need not be due to serious accidents or maltreatment, even supposedly harmless events suffice to shock our system. And not only people, animals too, are subject to trauma.

And it is this world Levine put his attention to. He observed the ways in which an animal 'shakes off' the intense energies after a traumatising event subsides. A human however, with its sophisticated and reasoning brain, has a tendency to thwart this instinctive reaction. As a result the intense energies have no way to discharge and the body has to find other ways to stay in balance. Symptoms arise that can seriously and structurally impede a person's healthy and joyful experience of life.

Levine's method to heal does not involve long term therapy in which the traumatising event is relived again and again. It involves sensing your body and tracking the trauma energies. Once these are discovered you are encouraged to make the instinctive and natural body movements needed to discharge these energies. His method is as simple as it is effective because it knows how to harness the instinctive and natural capacities to heal. Capacities we all possess.

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PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)

I happen to have this book on my bookshelf. Good basic PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) work for the beginning and advanced practitioner. Also, a fairly easy to read introduction to PTSD treatment for the layman.

The only downside is that it offers more conclusions than exercises for the layman, and this can lead the uninitiated to assume they know all about it now, on "authority".

Otherwise, Good Show Levine!


James Nemec LMT, CST-D
Author, TOUCH THE OCEAN, THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS

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Really interesting

I own it. It's really awesome and simple at the same time. Just read it carefully, you'll find lots of useful information...

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