Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma

Auteur : Peter A. Levine  & Ann Frederick

Éditeur  :  North Atlantic Books

Parution  :  1997

Nombre de pages : 276



Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma  :

Many individuals are unable to release trauma and may carry it all of their lives, which causes major interference with health, peace of mind and the ability to live joyfully and creatively. When human trauma remains unhealed, the energy of the trauma and accompanying emotions will remain locked within the brain and held within the body’s musculature, tissues and organs. Levine’s methodology offers an excellent resource for truly healing and transforming trauma. It does not require that we re-live what happened and re-experience the pain. Instead, it follows the body’s wisdom in its search for renewal and healing.

The author persuasively asserts that psychological wounds are reversible and that healing comes when the physical and mental letting go occurs, similar to the way the tiger experiences the coming and going of threat, tensing in response to danger, and as the threat passes, the tiger’s muscles shake, twitch and let go right then and there the fear related energy which now is forever out of mind and body. Similarly, humans can learn to release long-held and/or current trauma without its return.