Your body will tell you what previous traumas need to be retraced, recalled and resolved

The body doesn’t speak words as a way of remembering the past. It speaks implicitly, non verbally, through various sensory cues and electrical impulses

It communicates through tightening, bracing, collapsing, withdrawing, numbing, dissociating, freezing…. Movements, sensations, pain, facial expressions, tone of voice, posture, breathing patterns, the beats of your heart are also ways it signals to you.

There can be a mismatch and incoherence between what you know on a mind level (intellectually) to what you feel viscerally

The incompatibility of what you long for (be it inner peace, happiness, to feel safe, to feel joy, within) and what your body expresses to you (usually, I don’t feel safe, life is threatening, I can’t trust anyone) can keep you feeling stuck in cyclical cycles of mobilisation and immobilisation, and never truly feel connected to the world around you

You realise intellectually that you’re safe, but your body continues to respond otherwise. The narratives playing within the nervous system and somatic body are anchored to the past

Trying to think positively, just letting it go or talking about something highly painful that happened over and over isn’t harnessing the language of your body. It’s like watering a tree’s leaves to help it grow instead of its roots.

Regulation starts in your body. It begins with going to the root of the tree….. the nervous system

Working directly with the body builds a foundation for resilience and regulation, where you can begin to gradually and slowly process sensations, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts from past traumas and woundings

When you discharge the energy and hormones mobilised with the stress stored in your body, you bring your nervous system back into balance, into a healthy baseline and window of tolerance

Although some stimulus can soothe your feelings of distress for the short term (eg reiki, talk therapy, CBT, cacao, mindfulness, gym, card readings, spa days etc) it’s not until you complete the stress activation cycles from the past that it leads to true, real recovery and regulation, that is fully embodied

As our body holds cellular and fascial memory

Anything our body, muscles, fascia, organs experience, is recorded viscerally. And lies within until discharged out. This is how we’re able to walk without thinking, drive the car, pick up our cup of coffee., etc. Our body, fascia, muscles, nerves, cells, mitochondria, autonomically remembers movements involuntarily and unconsciously. Our vagus nerve, sensory and motor neurons are attuned to our dominant behaviours and subconscious beliefs. We are a neural matrix consisting of hardwiring and baseline programming.

Our subconscious (limbic system) and unconscious (body and NS) remembers through repetition. Through repetition the electrical signal is imprinted into each cell at an energetic impulse and is transmitted at a synapses. Synapses are asymmetric intercellular junctions that mediate rapid point-to-point communication between our neurons. They connect neurons into circuits, and transmit information between the axon of one cell and the dendrite of another. They also process and imprint information during transfer.

Simply put, our cells and neurons communicate with each other. At the junction between two neurons (the synapse), an ‘action potential’ (this is the name coined for the electrical interaction) causes our neurons to release chemical neurotransmitters to the next one, and it repeats and ripples outwards throughout our whole internal system. The synapses are part of the circuit that connects our sensory organs (like those that detect pain) in the peripheral nervous system up to the central nervous system and brain. Synapses then connect neurons in the brain to neurons in the rest of the body and from those neurons to the muscles via motor neurons.

Everything is connected.

Separation is an illusion.

We cannot separate the brain from body, body from brain.

Whatever we do and experience on repeat (be it a thought, feeling, belief, action, decision, behaviour), we embody neurobiologically on a cellular level, and outside of our conscious awareness via neuroception

Neuroception, essentially, is an Unconscious Process, describing how neural circuits distinguish whether situations or people are safe, dangerous, or life threatening. This is outside your conscious awareness.

The brain stem receives information from
* the world around you
* your immediate environment
* other people and animals
* other parts of the brain (eg mid brain including the amygdala & thalamus) and other parts of the body (eg organs)
* sensory neurons
* somatic memories
* narrative memories
* your psyche
* schema or worldview (eg mindset)

This information is neurally sorted into 3 groups
1. Safe
2. Dangerous
3. Life threat

This is based on
* An individual’s unique neurology, neural patterning and cellular wiring
* cultural and social conditioning
* personal history including experiences of deep pain, loss & trauma; dynamic’s of feeling unsafe or life under threat, the imprinted narratives that are active in relation to past painful experiences

With all of this cellular and energetic data, this determines our neural state:

•If we feel safe, the ventral vagus connection is activated (neuro-transmitting to stay calm and conscious)
•If we feel in danger, the sympathetic fight/flight is activated (adrenals activate, glucocorticoids secreted, past imprints activate and induce reactive behaviours)
•If we feel under life threat, the dorsal vagus freeze/shutdown is activated (operating from the gut, we immobilise, can lead to feeling “depression”)