Big hugs to you friend…. I’m so glad you’re here.

Maybe thinking of each other as "Family" instead of competing teams would help.

Spot on!

So happy for you ❤

❤ this❤

How long? Is it a daily routine till end of life

thanks so much for sharing that. that is exactly my experience with depression and being su...dal, now im applying it to PTSD. I thought healing Depression and s. would heal it all, but apparently for me it is a separate journey

I am practising spiritual teaching and meditación that is helping me.❤

I am too and can hardly function! My trauma is from my adult mentally disabled son. He’s been violent, abusive, etc, is an addict, steals my meds, etc. I can’t have him around me!

I have the same with my mom, distance is the best, they will hurt you again ​@Tinyteacher1111

Have the somatic and Feldenfrais exercises been helpful?

Yes, very much. They have helped me becoming aware of the sensations in my body and be with them. This was the groundwork for being with the sensations of trauma.@@sunflowersisters1245

Yes, very much. They have learned me to feel en to be with the sensations in my body. And this was the groundwork of being with the sensations of trauma. @@sunflowersisters1245

@@sunflowersisters1245 Yes, very much. They have learned me to feel en to be with the sensations in my body. And this was the groundwork of being with the sensations of trauma.

Thank you!

Come to San Diego on Feb 29

@@PeterLevinePhD thank you! What’s happening on the 29th?

@@faranazahamadkeshavjee3293 Look up the Embody lab, they're putting up a conference

@@PeterLevinePhD thank you! I wish I could get the funding to be present. All the best

The power of the word of God, is it can be seen by those who see. You saw it in the message, the metaphor. You might be ready to read the Bible. I recommend a study guide version.

You're welcome, this video is meant to be watched multiple times to fully grasp and get a hold of the powerful concepts explained. It's particularity helpful to watch when you're overwhelmed or shut down to remind yourself of what you need to do, that can't be underestimated.

Absolutely, it surely will be re-watched! Thanks again! @@PeterLevinePhD

What specific part should we watch multiple times? It is hard to watch the entire 40 min in a moment of activation

Thank you

Hey, Tinyteacher... I understand your situation and feel for you. I don't have kids of my own but perhaps you'll have to drawn on more patience in you. I believe it will pass and till then you'll have to let things happen as they don't seem to be in your control. I hope and pray things get better soon for you.

@@ma4170 Thank you, but (That’s the key word here. Your response had a “but” in it, and I don’t need people assuming what I’m like after I made one comment a while ago, that I even forgot I made.), to clarify… I don’t think there’s anyone that has more patience than I do. I taught high school for 40 years and had an exemplary career. I also fostered animals worked at 2 shelters, and raised 2 children mostly by myself (was divorced from an emotionally abusive husband and had one child who turned out wonderfully, and who has brain damage.). If ANYTHING, I have too much patience and needed to set more boundaries with my son.) I spewed out my frustrations here, and have been trying to recover from Lyme infections, and have made great progress, but I’m still fighting for his life and my own. I don’t think you should make assumptions about a comment made long ago. You don’t have any idea of what I nor my family has been through. I’m in horrible chronic pain and trying very hard to regulate my nervous system back to a normal state, so I can actually sit down and get things done. I find it hard to be 69, mostly alone, and in pain with brain dysfunction from chronic infections. Please be more considerate and helpful!

Example celticnationsmagazine.com/the-celtic-chakras/ which also reminds me of the symbol of Okinawa hsbudo.blogspot.com/2016/05/hidari-gomon-ryukyu-symbol.html

Hi @dakine4238 , I am doing a course with Irene Lyon called “smart body smart mind”. It’s all online and she uses a lot of Peters work as well as others. I am in a place with no therapists of this kind but find her work good. That is a paid course but if you search her she has a few free courses or cheaper ones and heaps of free yt videos. I watched her videos for 6 months before I paid. But there are many others as well I’m sure but she is one I can recommend. Good luck to you ❤

Irene Lyon has a course online based on Peter’s work. She has a lot of free things.

Keep writing your dreams

😮it was so clearly explained

I can try... Minor disruptions in life cause us to change in minor ways, but overall, the flow in how we live is mostly unchanged. This was the pebbles and stone in the stream of our life force. This life force is just how we exist in life. When our organism, our body, is just existing as per its default programming + how it has adapted based on life experience. Big and overwhelming life events have major disruptions to our life force if they aren't processed. These experiences are so big that they don't fit into our normal experience and they break out. This is the rupture on the boundary of the river that creates a trauma vortex. I once heard trauma described as when emotional pain doesn't have a relational home. This wasn't really covered in the video, but I almost imagine as the 2nd counter vortex as the unresolved emotional pain resulting from the event that caused the main vortex. Without any way to resolve these vortexes, we learn to restrict our flow of life to avoid getting sucked into the turbulence of the vortex. That is a narrowing of where we feel safe in life. What is then described is how to resolve the vortexes so that you can regain full flow. He went through his learning of what didn't work and where he finally landed. In short, you need to experience a bit of both vortexes, bit in a way that can be handled without getting sucked in. You need to experience some of the original pain (the ruptured vortex) + the relational home (the counter vortex) in order to integrate the experience. I think of this as a child who falls and scrapes their knee. With a good enough parent or safe adult nearby, the child will seek comfort. There is the shock to the system (the fall and scraped knee), the physical experience of pain, adrenalin, ect.. then the emotional experience of bring soothing by the parent or other attachment figure. That explample could become a pebble in the flow of life where the child learns to run with a bit more caution, but is still able to live as it did before the event. If the child never got soothed after the fall, it could become an emotional trauma. Any fear of fall could become overwhelming because there was no soothing after the fall. The child could learn to avoid running I'm not a therapist, this is just my understanding of what was described.

@@MatthewWoolaston thank you very much, so much clearer

Oh I think I heard an audio guided meditation like that before from Tom Bunn at Soar, to conquer the fear of flying. You image yourself on the beach. A wave comes in, it’s an image of an airplane, but then the wave rushes back out and you are back at the beach. Each wave bringing just one scene and then rushing back out. But the blue piece was missing. With the blue piece it would go something like this: You’re on the beach and a wave with an image of an airplane comes in. It’s an image of a safe and high tech airplane. The wave rushes out and you’re back at the beach again.

As a vipassana practitioner, and a senior SE student, I’ll write my first thoughts about the similarities and differences. I came to my version of your question by wondering why years of noticing ( aka mindfulness) has not brought about any trauma resolution like SE does. Firstly in vipassana there is the thing we are aware of, but not our response to it. So with pendulation in SE it’s really important to notice that , for eg , we feel more spacious where before we had a knot in the belly. The SE practitioner will invite the client to “ notice that”, or “ really soak that in”, which is part of what makes the counter vortex gain as much power as the trauma vortex. I could probably write about this for hours, but I’ll leave it there for now. If you have any thoughts , let me know.

@@alexandraknowles1356 thanks that makes sense. I think I observe things with Vipassana but it keeps coming back whereas I see with SE it gets resolved somehow.

@@alexandraknowles1356 that's a good point. I know in Vipassana you are just supposed to be equanimous and it seems with SE people actually resolve the feeling or issue faster.

How so? Can you elaborate ?

I've been trough neglect since birth, sexual abuse by age of 3, also by then my mother camed into my life just to scare the soul out of me..and more traumas all my childhood. I'm watching your videos hoping to find help but I see lot of explanations of what trauma is and less help. This video in particular made me feel dizzy. I really cannot follow trough

You're experiencing some grief with Peter's retirement. But his many videos are timeless and will help generations to come. Enjoy your retirement Peter