Sublime

carefully graded, expression of our instinctive responses will allow the traumatic state to loosen its hold on the sufferer.

The only way to consciously access our healing resources is through sensation and the felt sense.

This capacity is especially important when we are frightened or injured.

A central premise to be explored in this work is that our present feeling state may be the major factor determining what and how we remember a particular event.

Trauma is not a disease, he points out, but rather a human experience rooted in survival instincts.

This means helping them to respond appropriately to danger but, even more, to recover the capacity to experience safety, relaxation, and true reciprocity.