Somatic Healing

                    

Hello Friends,

Im here with another post. Today discussing about Somatic healing or Somatic Therapy. Somatic Therapy is an alternative form of healing for post traumatic stress. It is also know to aid in mental health as well. This therapy focuses on connecting the mind and body in psychotherapy. Somatic therapy is very different from traditional therapy because it doesn't just focus on the mind but it also incorporates the body as well. Traditional Somatic therapies include dance, breath work, and meditation for healing.

Personally I believe this is the best form of healing because the healing comes from within the individual. I personally practice these methods on a daily to weekly to ensure Im well balanced. Mental health has deteriorated ever since 2020 after the pandemic. My theory is because we are communal being and Isolating us....was probably not the best approach. At the moment we are currently dealing with a mental health epidemic. It is very difficult to find someone who isn't experiencing anxiety or depression. Traditional therapy is not always effective and the reason for that is because when we experience trauma, our bodies also experience  it. Those emotions or energy remains within out body. It is essential to get these energies or emotions out of our bodies for healing to occur. Somatic healing is all about embodiment and regulating our nervous system. This is where The mind body connection is so important part of the therapy.

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Somatic language is learning how to speak the language of our bodies to regulate it. I will use an example. In a stressful  moment when you are experiencing an anxious state. Your mind knows that it is worrying about a situation but there is no immediate threat. Your body however will react to the threat as it feels the emotions of threat. To your body it will react as though there is a lion in the room. This is why within your body when you are anxious you experience rapid breathing, palpitations, and a deep sense of panic and even crying or yelling. To calm your body down, you have to calm your nervous system down. In other words learn how to regulate your nervous system in a time of panic. This can be done through diaphragmatic breathing technique, shaking technique, dance, running. You need to move to remove these emotions from your body.

The nervous system breaks down into two groups. Sympathetic and parasympathetic. I will insert a picture to help illustrate this.

Sympathetic is what occurs to our bodies when our nervous system is in stressful situation. Parasympathetic is where we want to get our nervous system to. Parasympathetic nervous system means that is is regulated. In somatic healing our goal is to get the body out of the sympathetic system into the parasympathetic system. Regulating your nervous system can be done through various means of embodiment. This allows us to reach coherence with out bodies and allow them to align and connect with our mind which then allows our body to regulate and get out of the sympathetic state.

                                  

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