Peter Levine's Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body
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- In this video clip from his 2013 Psychotherapy Networker keynote address, "Trauma and the Unspoken Voice of the Body," trauma expert and bestselling author Peter Levine explains how the body stores the memory of a traumatic event. Featuring a clip from an actual session with a combat veteran, Levine then demonstrates an exercise for releasing trauma from the body.
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Peter Levine’s empathy is the only thing more impressive than his clinical prowess. Simply incredible!
I just came across this doctor and i am very impressed and inspired by him.
Absolutely! It's heartwarming!
Most healing is done by the healers presence of Compassion & their own overcoming their own inner darkness.. Dr. Levine is the 'Real Deal'..
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16
He’s my hero❤❤
This is heartbreaking. Young people, full of hopes and promises, destroyed in human madness and absurdity.
I really feel where you are coming from with this comment. I truly believe some people are the victim of human absurdity and madness.
Yea, its insane
yes, because of the decisions of some crazy psychopaths that rule the world
No one forced him to join the army.
Story of my life - being raised by a demonic narcissist who wanted to destroy me from birth
This is a brave a fight, too. While never a soldier, I encountered trauma and remembered that the body’s cells are replaced every 7-10 years, so I tried to stay positive and wait for all the cells holding trauma to leave. It’s been 9 years, and I’m almost fully recovered.
Very interesting! I thought about that too but it never happened for me like that. Literally not at all.
Mind if I ask you a question.. of course up to you to respond but what kind of therapies did you try in the last 9 years?
@@ministryofhandsome82 Sure. I had to make my own therapies. First I wrote about the traumatic events in detail so they quit playing over in my head. Next I allowed myself a positive and rich imaginary fantasy life to replace my broken headspace; people do this to survive isolation. Quit booze. Set routine. Sun light. Exercised. Learned to cook. Made models, including my perfect cabin out of balsa. Then began to work for my future.
@@maxdaly8185 that’s inspiring dude! I’m trying cranial sacral therapy tomorrow for the first time and hope it helps with my healing journey!
Water fasting helps with healing from trauma.
I can relate. I don't remember a time when I've been generally happy. Not even as a child, and I'm in midlife now.
I'm going through mushroom infusion therapy, and I can confirm that it does work real good..
Everything about me changed after that one night I did shrooms. i was so intrigued, amazed and astonished cus i can never expected the level of healing I perceived.
Y'all all talk about the benefits but you don't say where one can grab from...
dr.rinehartshrooms
𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖒
This man knows how to treat trauma and this is just the beginning of this field that is not taught in medical school.
Gabor Maté is another physician who knows what trauma can do to you in your body, mind and spirit. I would recommend reading when the body says NO.
Which book would you recommend of his?
@@sherrybopcherrypop his book is call ‘When the body says no”
Where does gabor give solutions? He talks alot though. Peter atleast gives techniques
@kayla b that's sad, I'll stick to Peter levine then
Thanks. This was helpful. Reading the book now 🙏
What a HIGHLY sensitive, intuitive, observant man. God bless people who help others with their amazing gifts and knowledge. This was inspiring.
Man I really wanted to jump through the screen and hug this kid. I'm so disappointed in our system. I have a lot of respect for this doctor right here. For not only listening but actually hearing the needs of this young solider.
Amen
Thank you. Im learning to love myself and i am appreciative people think yhis way
Try to speak to the women these so god soldiers did rape. Rape is the worst. Not these fake soldiers who kill, rape, and so on.....
I feel exactly the same..
Our “system” is you! And me, and a world of humans; but it absolutely starts with the healing of your own being, returning to integrity in ALL aspects of your life, whoever you are…
So 20 years ago...I was deeply affected by a sinister gaslighting husband...I didn't know what was wrong with me--I had changed from a free spirited,joyous ,loving girl to someone who couldn't sleep,developed twitches & jerks,suddenly had life threatening asthma,had become agrophobic,angry,afraid,alone,broken...I went to many doctors & counsellors...no one knew how to help...I was offered(but not prescribed antidepressants-because I refused them)...one doctor was trying to diagnose me with some kind of mental illness--(and I'm thinking of the soldier boy in the video now) when I said to the doc--"well,I guess it's normal I'm like this right? I mean after all my trauma...kinda like guys who come back from war zones-they can't sleep,suffer from stress,have physical symptoms"....and she said--"no,not necessarily"......what????..she was more interested in reporting about my "freelance hair" in her notes(I read them)...I hightailed the hell out of there.Something told me not to rely on the health professions-they are just too unprepared for real severe trauma & issues people have truly suffered in their lives.Thank you for this video...Dr Levine IS one of the rare health professionals who ARE prepared & able to deal with the suffering...God bless you Dr Levine with your work-TRULY helping others...and God bless this boy who has been through & seen so much.We need more HEALTH PROFESSIONALS trained in this!!!!🙏❤
We are under psychic attack -may Jesus save You and protect You -Fear not(this forces thrive in energy of fear,despair,hopelessness,anger etc)-Jesus you take over
Wow. I have experienced this too
Alexandra KONSTANTINIDIS Hmmmm... I can hear the frustration with a bad match in an encounter with a traditional talk therapy therapist- Psychologist?Psychiatrist? And, Dr Levine is actually a researcher focused on the effects of trauma in the body. A PhD. Not a Doctor of Medicine or of the Brain. His academic, and career background is in research on trauma. So, this is a newer field- Somatic Psychology, than the other therapies focused on brain function in relation to psychology. And, it may be that the experience you describe here, was with a therapist who just was not a good match for you. Good that you recognized this for yourself. It is always ok, to fire the therapist, to get matched up with a better fit, to help you reach your goals of wellness. Blessings on the journey.
Alexandra KONSTANTINIDIS abc without the use of very addicting medications which only mask a problem & create more problems down the road, like Benzodiazepines...harder to get off than heroine!
There might be if there wasn't so much money to be made out of drugging us instead - or worse still, writing us off as 'mentally ill' - when in fact, our RESPONSE to the situations which derailed our mental health were, as you said yourself, 'normal'.
Most of the encounters I've had with psychiatrists and doctors I've approached for help with my mental health have been fruitless or just plain chilling, i.e. they have been too quick to recommend powerful and dangerous medications about which they know very little to nothing.
The Western world's mental health is a modern tragedy unfolding in real-time experiments by the drug companies, via the prescribers, with our brains' chemistry - for their ultimate profit, and our ultimate undoing, or, at best, long-term dependence on their nasty drugs.
My conclusion: if a pill didn't make you ill, so a pill isn't going to make you well!
I hope you are doing good.
"Calling you back into your body"
Wow. I really feel this.
I was telling someone the other day that it seemed like I "left my body and was looking at myself with God"
I was in no explosions or loss of consciousness either but I really feel this.
Rory M same here...but I’ve had other traumatic experiences that have made me want to leave my body.
me too❣️
It may be dpdr @Rory M
@@heyheyy2141 I'm back in my body these days but that was for a good chunk of years I was more apart of the universe than I was in my actual body. Traumatic environment pushed me there and it wasn't until I solved those issues did I return to my body.
@@linuxd i only asked because i myself suffer from dpdr and feel disconnected from my body and environment, and everything feels like a dream and it's been 4 years now . Can you tell me what techniques have u used to recover?
It is very difficult, I am from Syria, living in Germany, unfortunately my PTSD Trauma damaged my life, less concentration, I had depression, sure headache, panic.... I am still doing EMDR therapy, it is like a punishment for me,but don't have another chance, should continue the treatment to be healthy, I am trying to start my life once again, is not easy at all 🙏Thanks for all my doctors, I trust them, danke Deutschland 🌹🌼
Ms Alhalabi, How are you now ? Be careful what you feed your mind. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Avoid comparing with others, reduce negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed, avoid moving too much and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Never meditate with expectations but with awareness. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations before sleep, in college, at work, taking a walk, when reading, etc.etc-anywhere-anytime. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Best wishes--Counsellor.
Will do, Thanks for ur advice
MS Alhalabi. I wish you all the very best.
Get a massage pillow. Use it daily on your body. It will heal you.
Hopefully you can succeed and be happy again habibi❤
I had such severe childhood trauma due to having cancer and almost dying on serval occasions that I completely blocked it all for 20years. When I finally processed it all alot of my pain melted away and I got pregnant with a baby I was told I’d probably never have. Trauma has such an incredible impact on the body. Now I’m a reiki master teacher and also help people heal their trauma. I was blessed to have amazing pediatric doctors help me to live with the pain and trauma I endured as a child. This doctor is amazing!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
how did you process it? I also experienced trauma because of an severe illness in my early 20s and I think it is still affecting my body. How can I release it?
Hey gabor mate is a brilliant place to look
So amazing.
I advise who want emotional releasing on any trauma to get back to it .. embody ur consciousness at that age and begin to write what do i feel and why? And fill pages of A4s write and cry what did u really feel? Write down for 9 or 6 or 3 days straight. And enjoy the results ur world will shift once you release it.
Thank you so much
Thank you
Journaling & revisiting can benefit some
I recommend having professional counseling & support as well
TOO MANY TIMES I have tried, too many times
@@suzannehartmann946 you deserve the best keep going
When you experience a trauma your consciousness mind takes leave and your unconscious mind takes over.
Well said
How to heal it?
@@SilverSurfeq1989 The whole audio book here th-cam.com/video/PEf9KI4SWM8/w-d-xo.html
There's no unconscious actually. Outdated concept. Try to catch up . Read Robert sardello
@@tbd5082 which book was this? the video is down
What a smart therapist who is also kind and loving. The young man is an example of how old powerful men who will never go to war, destroy young men’s lives every day. For power,money and greed. If he continues to work with this therapist he will get better.
I have only recently seen the connections as they actually are in myself to trauma and the long term effects that they are having on me. The constant flash backs and my mind racing, the constant nagging fear and breathless panic attacks. The feeling of being so hopeless that I barely even live life but instead just exist. The more I listen to people like Peter Levine and Bessel Van Der Kolk the more I realise that there is relief and hope. My whole life all I have ever really craved is peace and balance in my life and now I think that I may have found a way to make things work......Peace to all.
@Shonnee: I am in the same boat - recognizing the ways in which early and severe trauma has impacted my nervous system (so every aspect of my life) despite a lifetime of coping "well" (but not really). I am also feeling hopeful for the first time in my life. I HIGHLY recommend "The Body Keeps The Score" - it has been the light I needed to guide me.
This internet stranger is wishing you well!
YAHOVAH RAPHA. THE GOD WHO HEALS. BE REBORN OF THE SPIRIT IT WILL HEAL YOU IN WAYS YOU CANNOT IMAGINE AND SAVE YOU FROM THE 2ND DEATH.
@@lionofjudahlambofgod9132 why you are screaming? xD is this the goal that you and your belief offer? how do you call this... "full of screaming love" or what? xD
start to feel.. where is an act of love, there is also hope. dont scream jesus. be and act like jesus.
good luck my friend
Hi everyone, Acupuncture and EFT Tapping will do wonders for emotional trauma. Look up EFT tapping on TH-cam, Gene M/Brad Yates. Look for a community acupuncture clinic in your area as well. Healing will be. Good luck and much ❤️.
Infinitee Forever And Beyond check out acupuncture and EFT tapping. TH-cam has several well made and good go along videos. Check out a community acupuncture clinic in your area. Symptoms you’re describing are treatable with acupuncture. Good luck and be well.
This is literally saving my life, I have been going for a few months and the results are profound.
How do you find help with this
Can you help us all with the program you are using?
What results are you seeing?
@@simonewashington3429 I looked up local practitioners.
@@liam4407 It's very subtle but also extremely intense - I ran out of money before I could finish.
Hello. I have been recently diagnosed with PTSD from an emotionally and psychologically abusive marriage. When I'm triggered, my jaw clenches and starts to "shiver" I have trouble articulating my words. I'm very grateful for hearing about this technique and how coincidental for me that it relates to the mouth. Thank you and I am sharing bits of my story in the hope it can make at least one person feel less alone. 💓
It is not coincidental, it is google algorithm
@@mih2965 Did that dismissive sarcasm make you feel better?
wow...you are a survivor!!! wishing you the best of everything xo
Thank you for your share beautiful soul. 🙏🏽
I have also experienced extreme shaking/shivering and teeth chattering with a diagnosis of complex PTSD...also following years in an emotionally abusive relationship. I experience dissociation and many other symptoms too. Emotional abuse is not to be underestimated. I have so much empathy and understanding for you and you also are not alone 💜.
I been in an accident. Got hit by something big. I go ice skating now and flinch when another skater is around me. This video gave me the knowledge on why I'm flinching and now i can focus on how to relax. Thank you.
Wow. This is the most amazing information and insight. Trauma DOES play over and over in the body. The trauma stays in the body. That is absolutely amazing. Why hasn't anyone else ever seen this before; it's so obvious. The trauma victims definitely can't see it and yet it is there inside the body screaming at us all the time. Brilliant work.
I was abused when i was 5. I dont mentally remember all of the details but my body does. When someone is physically close to me i want to crawl out of my skin and run away. My body remembers being stuck in a situation i couldn't flee from so now any chance i get i run.
Megan Howard, How are you now ? Be careful what you feed your mind. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Avoid comparing with others, reduce negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed, avoid moving too much and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Never meditate with expectations but with awareness. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations before sleep, in college, at work, taking a walk, when reading, etc.etc-anywhere-anytime. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Best wishes--Counsellor.
Good that you recognize it. Hope you’re getting help. The Tapping Technique may be helpful. Lots of scripts on-line for that.
We all go through trauma and I know that most humans walk around as adults with various mental, spiritual and emotional health issues. I used to self medicate allot with booze and drugs which helped for a while but the best way for me to recover myself is yoga 🧘♀️ and meditation and finding something everyday that gives me joy. Some days we can’t find that but most days we can find something even if it’s small. And helping others .... do something to help and to serve we are all walking each other home. One love ❤️
Please don't do false equivalencies, though....mild trauma that is not chronic is not as damaging as long term severe trauma, or shorter term trauma. Thank you...
Exactly ;)
We are all walking each other home ☺️🤯❤️ just brilliant!!
Thank You Becca… for the reminder! ❤
@@suzanneyoung1729
I’m sure there is such thing as ‘mild’ trauma. Trauma by definition is debilitating and diff for everyone. For some who ate more resilient or able and heal quicker can and have gone thru same trauma as others who are crippled for life. Some are born with more sensitive central and enteric nervous systems so it’s much harder for them on all levels to rebal or heal.
My Tourette’s symptoms have almost disappeared since I started somatic release. I was misdiagnosed many times before getting complex-PTSD years unnecessary pain due to misdiagnosis’. Peter Levine helped save my life!
Hi Andrew. What did you do ? Online course?
@@annekevankemenade1628 I did competing response therapy with a real specialist. I lost access to him, so I continued on my own. I basically used online tutorials and did most of it myself. I wouldn’t recommend you follow my route though without guidance. Because I put myself through mental pain in the process and I was strong enough to handle it, but I’d never just recommend my way to someone I don’t know to not be liable. Look up Peter Levine and you’ll find the information for what I was doing
@@andrewjjahn Thankyou for this reply, I am glad you got some relief, i will look into it
This is so important! And we should also understand that those of us who have never been specifically in traditional combat or war situation, also experienced trauma. The impact of any form of Early Childhood Trauma is the most prolific kind of trauma we experience. The stereotype that PTSD is reserved somehow for one group of people, keeps a lot of us in the dark about our own PTSD. Things like rape, incest, molestation, bullying, witnessing violence of any kind, being a child of one or more addicted parents, growing up in the projects in any kind of dangerous, violent neighborhood.
I read an article where several veterans were getting treatment at the VA, not for combat ptsd but from being in a relationship with a personality disordered individual, they were embarrassed. I could relate
@@dangalangslanger1254 personality disorders are caused by trauma also. I’m so tired of people only bringing PD’s up to stigmatize them further. There’s so many articles and such about how awful and abusive those with PD’s are, but rarely ones showing the positive aspects or shit they went through. The study could’ve been about people who were in abusive relationship, but no, just had to single out a specific group of mentally ill people to demonize them.
@@NaNa-re3wc everybody who has done like 2 minutes of research knows that personality disorders are caused by trauma. It's just most people don't care what's causing it when they're being traumatized or have been. Either emotionally or physically abuse is abuse despite the fact the other person is traumatized, Kinda like when a guy is beating his wife, it's abuse nobody says, well I guess we need to have some sympathy for him too, because the cause of his abusive ways is deep rooted child abuse. They just say its wrong. You know hurt people hurt peope and all that jazz. I have sympathy, I really do. I think it's terrible that people grew up in a state of survival. I think it's tragic actually, heinous. But there's always enough sympathy for both sides. At least from me, but probably not from most people who have had their lives altered in ptsd inducing, non repairable, ways. The reason why personality disorders are stigmatized is because they are associated with negative behavior that affects the of quality of life for the sufferer and usually those around them. Yes it's terrible that bad things happened to peope during key developmental stages, And yes its terrible that affects other people.
Why are people entitled to a violence free life? Every organism, every animal, bug insect, mammal, reptile etc experiences some sort of violence in their life.
You'd have to come from an insanely narcissistic and privileged mindset to believe you should be absent of violence.
White supremacists generally have this no violence mindset despite them conquering the world through violence
PTSD is what happens to the brain AFTER the brain has reached certain developmental stages. In early childhood, birth to about age 5, that kind of trauma generally results in the child developing maladaptive coping strategies because the tiny brain is in such critical early stages of neurodevelopment.
PTSD has never been reserved for one group, but those who went to war had a collective experience they could talk about and understand as a group, whereas the rest of us usually experience our traumas while we are alone and isolated, so we have no one to really share the experience and understand it.
School shootings are a collective kind of trauma. 9/11 was a collective, national trauma.
You certainly recognize the multitude of traumas that people endure in life. We need more general education on this, and we need age-appropriate information in grade school gently talking about what trauma is like and how it makes kids feel.
So beautiful! Such a gift this is to humanity. To those whose childhood homes were war zones as well. So grateful to you, Peter Levine 🙏❤️💃🏻
"Adele - Skyfall (Lyric Video)"
th-cam.com/video/DeumyOzKqgI/w-d-xo.html.
Yes that, or in my case, like a deserted planet.
@@akc1739i feel you. mine was somehow both, despite 6 people living in it.
I enjoy seeing the compassion Peter has for this solider.
I have severe PTSD and have these tics, nobody every mentioned it to me! I thought it had to be neurological because I had a TBI too but this actually makes so much sense. Thank you so much! I'm going to look into this
This is amazing. I have cptsd. And for the first time in my life i have hope. I’m so happy for him.
Is it working for you?
I have a vicious case of cptsd and to be honest i stopped trying, i just take things as they come. If i die today fine, if i die 100 years from now still fine cause i just dont give a damn no more.
Check out Richard Grannon youtube - for cptsd
The Starlord check out Rich Grannon from the UK. You will not be disappointed!
Boogie J hey I am gonna tell you the same thing I told the guy above. Assuming you haven’t already check Richard Grannon from the UK. He has a program which costs next to nothing called “emotional literacy.” I think that If you do that along with these exercises and maybe a little medication you will see improvement. Don’t throw in the towel man. Keep fighting! When you least expect it crazy things can happen and you won’t believe how your life turned around. People know who I am but I use a different gmail for posting TH-cam comments (for now anyway). Life is never gonna be perfect. There will always be pain but Keep fighting bro!
@@boogiej5258 no one replied to you. Look I have worst CPTSD. No one care man. Now I research and treat myself. I use TRE myself twice a week and primal scream therapy. I cried. And I will keep doing for over six months. I hope you emulate these.
I know of someone who was sexually abused by her brother and never really got therapy for it. I think it mat have manifested itself later when she was convinced her neighbour was sexually abusing their child. But, what is so tragic is because she told the landlord he caled the police and they had her 'sectioned' under the mental health act. She spent 5 months in a mental facility and under suspicion and never once had a proper sit down therapy session with a psychiatrist. Even more tragic is a few years later she died of cancer. I truly believe if she was able to recieve proper psychiatric care to resolve her PTSD she may have survived.
I first heard of this kind of PTSD manifestatiom on Dr Phil when a womsn was accusing someone of sexual abuse now but Dr Phil pointed out that her past childhood sexual abuse and trauma may be manifesting this way.
We really need to help those PTSD sooner.
When he said 'jolted', he actually jolted.
Peace and profound love to all the hurting souls. God give us love
The amount of kind energy that this doctor radiated was phenomenal. I feel so peaceful and loved by just watching him talking to the patient.
This vet is precious
Through my body and it’s flow of “energy” is how I best treat my ptsd to learn to not replay my flashbacks
This is so true, I was diagnosed with trauma to the stomach, moved 6 months ago but my body went into shock from the move. It took 6 months for my body to realise the stress of it all..crazy how your body reacts later on..when you least expect it.
Hi Michael, how did you manage to release the energy from your stomach? It's something I'm going through too. Thanks a lot
I have never read anything simpler and clearer as when I listened to most of Dr. Levine’s book about healing trauma
I have tried a therapy for Physical Therapy and they used Myofascial release on me and my therapist said I was the first patient to ever have Crying then laughter in the same session. I know this is physical therapy but she told me she could feel my child hood trauma she said she could feel it.
Can you enlarge a little on that for me, please? It sounds amazing. I'm looking in to bioenergetics at the moment, but there's very little in the UK (I'm assuming you're in the US?). I have found a myofascial therapist, but don't think she's trauma centred. She uses the Rolfing method, as it's an aspect of her training.
@@jennytaylor3324 I'm pretty sure my friend in the UK does EpiEnergetics sessions with others. Right now he's in the US though.
@@consciouscoffeeplussugar2658 Thanks!
@@jennytaylor3324 HI, perhaps you would like to try Lomi Lomi massage. It's a gentle continuous touch, literally reaching your soul. After a few sessions, I cried for 45 mins. Not knowing why, but I sob like mad. I don't know what that was about, but I noticed my body stop being super tense in an certain situations. Crabniosacral therapy is also amazing for dealing with all sorts of trauma. Good luck.
I had the same reaction with deep tissue massage in relation to sciatica. Bawling my eyes out in deep grief during work on the right side, laughing hysterically in total elation with the left. It was so intense and overwhelming, I couldn't prevent or control the reactions at all.
Bless this man
I love this guy. He's truly helping people.
I totally felt for that soldier when he was crunching up. I crunched up, too.
I have been in bed for some 10 years with a myriad of psych diagnosis as well as physical health (more than likely due to the traumas I have experienced). C-PTSD, Anxiety, Panic, FMS, SEID, IBD and the list goes on... Then I got COVID before we were told it was a thing... and I have been learning to breathe again... I have just subscribed... I have read a couple of your books and loved them... I have studied different energetic a somatic systems. I do what I can to keep from going down another hole of MDD. I have many somatic reactions that I just don't understand. I want to be well and out of pain. I am 66 years old and have been in therapy since I was 16. I am here to learn.
as I watch this video, I say a prayer,
I pray for health, for wealth, and for love...
OK, how do I re-live the emotional trauma of being a care-giver to a loved one for 3 years, seeing them waste away with a fatal degenerative disease????
The experience is now coming back to me after about 10 years, in my sleep.
Kinesiology....any trauma, emotional or otherwise is held onto by the body. I would never had thought I could get rid of this baggage/trauma but I have...absolutely amazing!!! X
Talk about it ... and release any tears and maybe keep a journal of your dreams 💕🌷 hope you find peace 🙏
@@beccareynolds4625 What if you have nobody willing to listen cos they find death uncomfortable to talk about and you can't get the right professional support? 😔
This is important work. Thank you to all kind-hearted & professional therapists, you're doing a great job.
Brilliant 👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟 I hope this young man has moved forward into a wonderful life.
Awesome work Dr Levine🌟
Wow thank you!!!!!! I’ve had PTSD from a military helicopter crash years ago. It was repressed but surfaced 2 years ago & my diaphragm area tightened involuntary causing major stomach issues. (& my teeth clinch). This is giving me great relief. I’ve been doing it for like 3 days now (driving my car, walking around the house etc) & my stomach etc is improving greatly & the tightness is finally releasing. Thk u!!!
..I have that involuntary teeth clenching too, it's a reflex to stress
Quick question, how do you know if repressed trauma resurfaces?
Curious if your still mindful about it from time to time! What is the precise exercise you did? Did you think of anything while relaxing your jaw or is that unnecessary?
@@embroideredragdoll
No quick answer other then he obv recognized memories coming were about real situations. Beyond that do some research.
@2:35 "Do you know what they're for... supposedly?" Awesome!
Great work ! I am so proud of this therapist. This is what the real healing work looks like.
This therapy saved my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Peter. Judi
Thankyou Dr Levine! This means a lot to me seeing this! 💜💜💜
I had similar convulsions/twitches after my father died. They started at this death bed and continued for years afterwards due to ongoing legal complications with his wife. I recognised the connection bug couldn’t understand it. Since I met my partner they have quietened significantly, I assume because my ventral vagus is more activated. So interesting. I wish healing to everyone who needs it.
me too. I have been falsely 5150d too many times. You can’t get better where you got sick.
On the scale of somatic experiencing, mine has been generally more mild but still problematic. I've been super jittery and nervous around people for much of my life, and I also had severe facial muscle spasms that caused me to grind my teeth in my teeth which caused early joint damage. Also clenching my jaw unconsciously on a day to day. Working on relaxing my mind and body is a priority for me right now.
This video elucidates to me that sometimes people can be so shut down, shut down or aversive that they do not access / use ability to take of themselves or their life, in a active, participatory healthy way. Their past, experiences and whats going on in them can prevent them or keep them from functioning in a more aware way to take care of themselves and sometimes it is a learning process. I am even preaching or speaking to myself. I need to attend to blockages at times so I can find ways to get part or around them, to take care of myself and find ways to grow myself and life beyond survival, subsistence. Not all people immediately or necessarily identify this and successfully do something, me included, when we have blockages in aspects of ourselves. Those blockages need to be attended to, even if it something to attend to reoccurringly every week/ 7-10 days.
Thank you Dr Levine for sharing your healing work. God bless you and all who suffer trauma
Amazing and gentle work. My hope is that we also consider the consequences of such trauma on the people of countries that the US bombs year after year.
It’s tragic for this young soldier to have suffered his trauma. And it’s every bit as tragic for the millions of others
Preach, in fact it is the reason why many soldiers experience trauma- because they are receiving what they put out. We are All One. One consciousness.
Hope they get to see Peter Levine's work and heal with it... America caused them harm so it's only fitting that an American helps them heal.
It didn't feel like he was hiding, it felt like he was touching & healing the parts of his brain where the trauma is frozen & still finding paths to release the healing. He touched the forefront left in the present then back left when entering into memories, that want to move forward & process the experience of traumatic release.
You mean like self soothing, protective behaviors, right?
@@sonofhibbs4425 Yes, that also. Thank you.
@@Theflowoflove really good comment. I think you’re more on point than what was suggested.
@@sonofhibbs4425 Thank you . Peace be with you always.
Recently, I experienced a trauma to my body and psyche. I was attacked physically and verbally by someone I don’t know for seemingly no reason at all. I spoke with the police, two men who were very compassionate and kind. They even called me back to find out how I was feeling and tell me that they were taking measures to protect me from this person (a neighbor) by what they called “psychological surveillance” to let her know they were watching. They were extremely empathic and told me to call them immediately if there was ever another encounter with the angry woman. Over a few weeks, their attentive kindness reduced my trauma exponentially. I also used Tara Brach’s method of compassionately observing myself as I dealt with a heightened sense of fear, anxiety and alarm.,it’s been about a month now and I rarely if ever experience that stress and the PTSD has lessened greatly. But trauma to the body is not easy to release. The body wants to fold in upon itself as a protection and I have been isolating more than usual. I have a great therapist. Thanks for this insightful video. I will discuss what I learned here in session today.
Amazing work. The last 10 seconds you can see how much his body language rested.
This is amazing, what an angel this man is. Thank you for doing this xo
Thank you Dr. Levine for all that you do. 🙏🏼❤️
As a person experiencing PTSD and CPTSD from childhood trauma, I have found extraordinary healing with the help of microdosing psilocybin. This after a lifetime of struggle and search for relief. Not only healing but a deep reconnection both with my self and my spiritual connection to and understanding of life. Somehow the mushrooms allow you to rewrite the bad sectors. I wish healing for all sufferers of trauma - getting trauma out of the body is very very difficult bc of how it literally changes our nervous systems.
Bless the Hero you are working with in this video. Bless us all ❤️🙏❤️
An additional help to those suffering from the after effects of trauma are Flower Essences (AKA Bach Flower Remedies). The two I would recommend are Star of Bethlehem and Chapparal.
Such a good subject, but video ends without a conclusion. Great work by Mr. Levine.
So glad to have seen this. I’ve had milder but similar shudders after an accident and though I believed it to be trauma being processed I couldn’t find a description of this online and am glad to see footage to see it’s the same thing
I believe it got stored during the period when I was sedated, as I couldn’t stay embodied during that time like I had been when conscious, through breathing and empathic contact
This is an intuitive intelligent man. This is the way of the future in therapy I believe. Educating the patient of their condition.
Smart, smart man. 👍
You made me cry thank you for your amazing presentation I am going to keep listening to you.
My PTSD Iwas from I was attacked and thought I was going die.
Kit Kat I’ve been having a lot of success by practicing the Emotion Code process. It’s a great book, all on TH-cam, and you can do it yourself or have a practitioner facilitate. You will experience relief.
Me too
Love these kinds of videos informing us and giving us more awareness about ourselves and what people go through, suffering 9plus years with anxiety
It is a blessing Peter Levine is able to help. How can we provide young people being exploited in war
This is cool and im glad if he is helping soldiers recover but I thought from the title that it would be something we all could do.
I encountered past life memories of being a soldier and it brought me into convulsion-like tremors. As the trauma was released from my body, the tremors began to dissipate. Thank you for this video. I hope to add to the discussion someday.
Wow! That’s was so sad to see him going through that. I hope he’s getting better.
This is the greatest physical example of trauma I have seen.
In the scene of his convulsions, it’s literally his body expecting to be blown up again, his body in constant ‘fff’ senses danger and reacting even when there is none.
I don’t really see the “how to release trauma” but I do understand the importance of feeling that tingle, that warmth, your body/ mind resting.
Beautiful
Mis leading title.
Good therapist. Retraining the nervous system plus the subconscious, that's how PTSD and c ptsd SHOULD be treated.
Dr.Peter Levine, Respect you Work ,beyond words.
It’s a short cut from suffering 🙏🏼
6 or 7 medications? Oh what so many of our soldiers have had to endure.
Any true traumatic experience...be it war or standing face to face with a same species predator who means to do you serious harm...you brain almost takes you out of your body or does take you out and you hover over yourself looking down at what is happening. Levine is correct that you must call the essence of yourself back into the body.
It's so wonderful to have a professional understand what happens at the moment that a life-threatening event becomes too much for the conscious brain to handle and begins to allow the spirit to leave the body to survive it.
Note: I use the word spirit for lack of a better word? True self might be another way to describe it.
Useful information. Be careful what you feed your mind. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Avoid comparing with others, reduce negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed, avoid moving too much and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Never meditate with expectations but with awareness. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations before sleep, in college, at work, taking a walk, when reading, etc.etc-anywhere-anytime. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Best wishes--Counsellor.
Thank you, I wrote a lot of what you said down, because I want & need to do it & it all rings so true for me 😊❤
@@lynne3989 Observing your incoming-outgoing breath is very simple. I have made it a habit. Watch videos on the relation of breath and relaxation. Your life is about you. Only you know what is going on in your mind. Nobody else will know. Be motivated. Life and people will never happen exactly the way you want. Best wishes.
Thanks a lot for sharing this video!
I hope this young man is doing well 🙏🏾. Talk about the system letting someone down.
This is pretty mind blowing to me and I wish I saw this video sooner. I show many signs of suffering with C-ptsd including having these tics/jerks. It’s been such a problem for me and it’s diagnosed as “tic disorder”. It has happened since I was in high school and I’m 24 now, and just starting to really heal my traumas. I’ve always seemed to experience somatic symptoms during times of stress. It’s an energy blockage thing as well. I’m thinking about trying acupuncture.
Look up EFT here on TH-cam. Brad Yates is amazing and it’s all free. Pennebaker’s journaling protocol for trauma processing is another great one. Andrew Huberman recently did an episode about it. You can heal at zero cost
Thank you this has realy helped me out of a bad place the parts of the memories relooping i realy connect with that its like echos i think that keep on going
OMG I do have a Tourette thing in my neck also.
Since my young age.
Took Tourette medications also.
Didn’t really work.
Went to saw a osteopath couple years ago, she played with my neck... I started to cried and didn’t had Tourette again...
It did come back from time to time... and my osteopath always make it go away.
It’s our emotions that are trap in our body...
I literally wanted to go and sit near to that boy,hug him❤
Such a skilful practitioner. So inspiring to watch.
The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Vanderkolk is also very good work in the field of trauma
I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It changed my life.
Beautiful work 💕
What an awesome video! What an awesome Dr.!
I'm so grateful I live in a time with access to this knowledge ❤.
I really feel for this guy. It's rare to have a doctor with understanding like this. I have crushing ptsd from dealing with severe covid and a 3 month long hospital stay. I was on a vent in the icu and similar to how this marine feels about his independence because I drove myself to the er a fully capable and self sufficient person to waking up a few weeks later in the icu attached to a machine breathing for me. With lines in my arms and up my nose. I couldn't move a muscle from atrophy nor could I talk from the trach. My whole life I knew was blown to pieces. It's still really hard to think about. Months of physical and mental therapy was just the beginning. I have come a long way a little over a year later but it's extremely hard and gets very hard at times. I pray for anyone dealing with ptsd and how it can run your life at times. I pray we all get the help we need🙏
I had the same experience with covid pneumonia. Took me ages to recover and I still have long covid 2 years on. PTSD for sure.
poor guy.... however he is lucky to be in the hands of an intelligent therapist. Trauma does make one disconnect from their body in order to stop feeling, and to survive, many therapists need to be educated on how to help in this way.
Dealt with this most of my life... its no joke. Great to see it being adressed 👍👍
I’ve been calling myself back into my body for years and wondering why I don’t stay there. I’m now told my body is addicted to releasing trauma!! Fascinating🤔
So this mean that, for example, Tourette's syndrome is the body-mind stuck in some kind of reaction. If that's true, you could substantially heal Tourette's, OCD, or similar disorders. Where's the rest of the video?
i agree, i would like the rest of the video, but if you search "tony robbins stuttering man" on youtube, there's a video that may be help you
I found some more of this presentation at the end of this video... th-cam.com/video/nmJDkzDMllc/w-d-xo.html
However do not miss the part about some of the symptoms are brain injury literal damage. That is like losing a limb. It will not all be fixed with therapy.
Why is the emphasis of ptsd always on vets? What about adults who were children of abuse? Cptsd is so debilitating and affects so many people developmentally. Nobody talks about it compared to vets who are adults who trained to willingly take part in war (I’m not victim blaming btw).
Exactly, they are the only ones who chose to be in a traumatizing situation!
milkandblue Agreed.
Yes, so many suffering from neglect during childhood which is possibly the most damaging and difficult to eradicate
@@prana8660 I know.
Incredible work Peter. Feel for the client.
That was an eye opener.
This brought me tears! I feel for this warrior’s pain but I also have this physical pain and I know I’m stuck in self punishment related to my childhood trauma at age 4. I felt shame guilt and responsibility for what happened though it was not my fault and I couldn’t tell my mother because he threatened I would get sick and die and I also knew that physical pain was associated with being punished for wrongdoing
Yvette Givens. Is there anything more tragic than little children blaming themselves for the selfish wanton acts of diabolical adults (yes they were maybe abused too but ..) and then going on to survive in the dark lonely world of inner-shame throughout their adult lives. I have similar, we really really have to release the horrendous self-punishment and feel the safety we deserve. Irene Lyon is an expert on this and studied with Levine. She has amazing courses, you probably know. I wish us both and everyone suffering, all the very best :) :)
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Oh, my darling. 4 year olds are so sweet and trusting, as they should be to learn and grow. I'm so sorry. You were absolutely perfect, correctly wired. This sick person was just looking for someone, ANYONE, who was in that learning stage. You were perfect and correct to trust. This person took advantage of a natural stage. I love that age of children because I can teach them good things, and they believe, without resistance. That vulnerability should never, EVERRRR be betrayed.
The loss of your grip on reality is really scary. You don’t really know if the current trigger is as bad as what you remember or not. It all seems just as terrifying. And it all gets blurry like that. If I get triggered, I shut down entirely for awhile. Like I can’t even deal with bathing or housework. Nothing but laying here alone with very scary and depressing thoughts racing through my head and feeling all I felt when the trauma happened (and it was prob CPTSD bcuz it was ongoing bullying/narc abuse by a caregiver/parent and the other narc parent condoning it and legitimizing it-this was not a one time event, tho some times were worse than others from the age of 8). Sobbing and in the fetal position and shaking. And I’d get stuck like this for several days straight with it. The hell of feeling trapped and hopeless and helpless and totally unsafe and the terror of God only knows what happening to me later on with no way of escape and no help and never being rescued from it. It’s like your brain tells you that this is the hell that is your life and it’s going to be this way forever for you. That you’ll never be free. Cuz that was the original message to me from the narcs-I can do whatever I want to you and nobody will ever stop me. And you can bet they’d take full advantage. That’s where the hopelessness comes in and it takes me down like some spiral all the way down into the depths of despair as if I’m drowning in it. And after, I may even have some insight and feel more brave, but then I go back fairly quickly to feeling low grade trapped and helpless and just getting depressed about that, as if it’s some kind of aftershock.
This last time, I found this decorative dagger I had in a drawer and just held it and looked at it and thought about it and that seemed to help me feel less scared, as it was a real, concrete object of a defensive nature that was really here and part of this material world. Like my brain couldn’t go anywhere imaginary with that (as if to have some narc gaslight it away etc) bcuz there was no refuting that first I had the presence of mind to remember where it was and it was not taken or stolen from me and also that if needs be, I’ve got at least SOMETHING (and real also) to defend myself with or at least try to. Idk tho. I really hope it’s working itself out finally, as I don’t have as many episodes this bad or as often as I used to.
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@@LadiesOfThePleiades Thank you. A year later and I’m much better for it. It got me to consider how I was not really that helpless child anymore and as an adult now, I have some real options. The dagger was a good start tho. I then changed my locks. Then I thought about things like self defense courses or gun classes or possibly getting a gun. I thought about security cams and things like that. It was very empowering. To see all these kinds of options laid before me, even if I never do any of them or if I never have to resort to that. Tho money allowing, security cams I think is a very good and possible idea for me. And I think also maybe at some point joining some self defense groups may be just a good thing to improve my self esteem and boundaries. I don’t feel that fear and terror anymore. Now I think he’s rather pathetic. All his “power” over me is delusional and wanna be really. He only gets my power if I allow it. And I no longer allow it. 🤗🤗
Wonderful insight
This works for traumatic experiences that are sudden and last a short duration. It probably gets imprinted with a clear pattern but when it's slow and over a lengthy period of time the imprinting isn't so clear
Accept. Someone said that in the comments. NONE of us want to accept that we have been treated horribly by another human being as if WE have no value. It is as if we are VALIDATING that assessment of ourselves. Accepting the incident happened is accepting the OTHER person and the event has no FURTHER value in our lives and deserves no more of our time and energy. It gives us the right to RESTORE value to ourselves. I have value, therefore I accept it happened, but reject the consequences. I reject reacting to it over and over as if it is still happening on a daily basis. Maybe it used to. For me it happened very often. The person I forgave. Persons. Not FOR them but for me. That much anger and fear does not hurt the other but yourself. My mom died last year. She had Alzheimer's. In my last visit to her she said bitterly she supposed I thought SHE had something to be forgiven for also (I had forgiven my Dad about the rapes she helped foster telling me I was "protecting" my little sisters, not to tell on him because it would break up the family we would lose our home etc.) I never approached her about her role. From the bitter tone I gave her a different opening. I said "Mom we all do, is there something You are angry with me about? Something you would like ME to apologize for?" She sat there and ground her teeth and refused to answer. I had forgiven her in my heart a long time ago and did not wish to get the same defensive response of "No I didn't" and "I never want to speak to you again" that I got from my Dad. I had no intention of accusing her. I never visited again because I did not want to agitate her. Had she really wanted to clear the air she had years after to call or ask me to return and did not. Amazing how the victim is always guilty.
Beautifully said!
Really interesting.