Internalized body trauma

I am always in wonder how a body functions & its capacities. I find bodies(human or animals) to be a miracle. One such amazing aspect of a body is to internalize & store traumas. It could be as recent as right now to a time when one was born & in some cases life times. Body internalizes trauma & intense emotions in our organs, it could be where we have been hurt or intense emotions are stored in our vital organs.

Some traumas are relived when some similar situations arises or our mind plays those visuals. Have you ever cried by thinking of a past hurtful event? have you ever felt nervous & your body would have been sweating/shivering by thinking of certain incidents, it could be past or future. Yes!! our mind is one beautiful & amazing thing that could make believe a story that hasn’t occurred & our body would respond to it as if it did. Have you ever experienced that?

Lot of times we think or say believe that we have dealt with particular emotions & it could be true when you have resolved it mentally but have you released it physically is the question. How do you know that you are still holding on to those intense emotions? Its very simple, how does your body react when you think of that particular incident with caused you pain? Does your mind immediately shut off? Do you want to run away or hide from it? Does your body gets a bit tensed or behaves a bit different than it would when its relaxed? I am sure you would know whether its released or its still playing its automatic response, internalized in your body.

Now how do you work through it, as Rumi said – The cure for the pain is in the pain. In expressive arts based therapy, You communicated, embrace & release the pain. Why arts? its a bridge between the spoken & the unspoken, a medium to bring forth whats hidden in subconscious mind to conscious & easy way to integrate lost & fall pieces of mind, body & soul.

A step to release trauma trapped in body, its a 3 hour expressive arts based therapy on 22nd & 29th feb. For more details drop in a mail jaanvi.t.31@gmail.com.

Love J

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