“Neurogenic tremors in humans, much the same as the instinctual tremors in animals, is the natural response of a shocked or disrupted nervous system attempting to restore the neuro-physiologic homeostasis of the body (Feldman, 2004; van der Kolk, & van der Hart, 1991). According to researchers, this restorative mechanism allows the organism to thaw out or release itself from the freeze response in the human just as it does in the animal species (Feldman, 2004; Heller & Heller, 1977; Scaer, 2001b). Levine (2002) proposes that the key to healing traumatic symptoms in humans lies in our ability to mirror the fluid adaptation of wild animals as they ‘shake out’ and pass through the immobility response and become fully mobile and functional again (p. 18). By reinforcing and harnessing these primordial and instinctual tremors instead of treating them as a pathology, humans, like animals, can resolve the somatic expressions of their trauma so that the homeostasis of the human organism can be restored (Levine, 2004).”
– Neurogenic Tremors (The body’s natural response) - Trauma Prevention (via clothedinsky)

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  4. courier5 said: levine is phenomenal. have been doing a bit of work blending his methods with arnold mindell’s process-work. to great effect.
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