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RE: Healing After Trauma: how we respond to pain makes all the difference
I just heard 'The Guest House' at a Yoga Nidra lesson last week. We also discussed where trauma sits in the body. Interestingly, as a young child, despair manifested itself as a feeling of emptiness in the pit of my stomach. This continued until I was 25 and in the midst of a takeover robbery, was grabbed by the back of the neck . Ever since then, when I get tense, my shoulders go up and the tension sits in my neck. I feel like I've accepted the situation for it's benefits, it led me to leave banking and go to teaching music, but I obviously still have healing to do.
Oh I’m so sorry to hear of that traumatic episode in your life (tho it seems to have also had beneficial effects!)... it is natural for us to hold tension and keep it there. So so natural. I learned that when I practiced massage as literally everyone carries tension, even the therapists!
It’s such an interesting ? -To ask where trauma sits in the body. As I become body and self aware I have realized and continue to realize I have a habit of holding my breath. It’s a consciousness pratice to breathe deeply into my belly and to release that tension. Being aware of it is half the trick <3 best to you as you heal that held trauma in your own timing <3