THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY, MIND, AND EMOTIONS (WITH VIDEO AT THE END)
The relationship between body and mind is now accepted, even by orthodox medicine. I would even say the intimate relationship between body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
In the field of psychoneuroimmunology, connections have been discovered between negative psychological states and their influence on the immune response. Our mental and emotional state can be read in our bodies. Our emotional states, whether stressed, excited, repressed, or otherwise, are reflected in characteristic muscular patterns and postures. Even past physical and emotional traumas are reflected in our tissues, what we call “energy knots.”
The Panizo Somato-Emotional Method is based on studies of the instinctive physiological responses we all have to any situation in life, particularly when we feel threatened and/or overwhelmed.
Trauma occurs when a person’s ability to cope with an event at a given time and place is exceeded.
The session helps people release pent-up energy, learn to better manage difficult bodily sensations and repressed emotions, and can essentially free someone from “living in the past.”
Could you have forgotten the trauma?
Consciously, yes, but the body keeps it alive. Trauma resides in the limbic system, and when something happens that reminds us of it, we react automatically. You can’t rationally decide to forget a trauma because it resides in the most primitive part of the brain. Are fear and isolation at the core of trauma?
Yes, and it reshapes the brain and body. We are primates, relational beings, so a large part of trauma is isolating yourself from relationships with others.
And can it be reversed?
Yes. A significant part is being able to talk about it, and then you have to deal with all the feelings that are present and expressed in your body, because as a defense mechanism, people who have experienced trauma dissociate from the body and its sensations.
How does the Panizo Somato-Emotional Release method work?
The Panizo Somato-Emotional Release method is a therapeutic approach created by Alberto Panizo to free the body and mind from the negative effects of the past.
Different techniques are used within the session:
Working with tissue memory
Releasing “energy knots”
Using imagery and therapeutic dialogue
Working with resources
Working with the “felt sense” (Focusing)
Pendulation (to make the entire process digestible for the client)
Body uncoiling
Working (emotional and mental) with past traumas that affect us in our daily lives (inspired by the systems of Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, and “Focusing”).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Integración cuerpo, mente y emociones en la terapia craneo- sacral. Autores: Alberto Panizo, Andrzej Pilat y otros. Editorial: Escuela Universitaria de Fisioterapia ONCE. Codigo: 978-84-484-0196-2
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