“Many War Veterans and victims of rape know this scenario only too well. They may spend months or even years talking about their experiences, reliving them, expressing their anger, fear and sorrow, but without passing through the primitive ‘immobility responses’ and releasing the residual energy, they will often remain stuck in the traumatic maze and continue to experience distress.” Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger
Clearly, some problems cannot be talked out. We live in a cognitive and somatic universe, but like so many things in our modern experience, those realms are absolutely divided and infinitely, eternally far away. Only the yearning for wholeness can bring us back.
The sensations of deqi vs. pain were measured in MRI scans of 17 patients receiving acupuncture. MRI imaging showed that in the brains of patients experiencing …show more content…
Those experiencing pain sensations showed a mixture of deactivations and activations. (Ashgar 2009) Consciousness, intent and tactile reality are not always so clearly divided. We are simultaneously corporeal and ethereal. Certainly PTSD - a psychological condition that exhibits physical symptoms and brain/hormone alterations – persists as this paradox. It is said that trauma lives in the cells, not just the imagination. Chinese Medicine comprehends a multilayered link between feelings (cause) and disease (effect). Imaging of the brain during acupuncture and lab results demonstrate a vast potential for TCM to address the needs of PTSD patients. Although clinical trials do not completely validate the superiority of TCM over other
Clearly, some problems cannot be talked out. We live in a cognitive and somatic universe, but like so many things in our modern experience, those realms are absolutely divided and infinitely, eternally far away. Only the yearning for wholeness can bring us back.
The sensations of deqi vs. pain were measured in MRI scans of 17 patients receiving acupuncture. MRI imaging showed that in the brains of patients experiencing …show more content…
Those experiencing pain sensations showed a mixture of deactivations and activations. (Ashgar 2009) Consciousness, intent and tactile reality are not always so clearly divided. We are simultaneously corporeal and ethereal. Certainly PTSD - a psychological condition that exhibits physical symptoms and brain/hormone alterations – persists as this paradox. It is said that trauma lives in the cells, not just the imagination. Chinese Medicine comprehends a multilayered link between feelings (cause) and disease (effect). Imaging of the brain during acupuncture and lab results demonstrate a vast potential for TCM to address the needs of PTSD patients. Although clinical trials do not completely validate the superiority of TCM over other