Updating my somatic framework
Hi everyone, I'm reading a book called "The Way Out" and it shined light upon a gap in my trauma understanding. It's more about the nature of how I perceive tension. The book invites using "somatic tracking" and it's about bringing a playful spirit of investigation to areas in the body where we feel these tensions. There's a lot of emphasis on the playfulness of it, or rather lightness. Instead the body scanning practice I did before just invited a general sense of openess that didn't quite reach me.
That being said the tension when we pour this investigative spirit into it seem to change form and eventually dissipates. This tension seems to be just the brain miscalculating a fear response and associates a neutral area in the body with pain. So basically there's nothing wrong in the body when we feel these tensions. I was wondering when reading the book if this made TRE useless since I worked under the assumption that there's something "wrong" with the body and the tension I'm feeling is a manifestation of that. But as I researched into it,it seems that TRE or any other somatic modality is, well, shaking things up and bring these tensions to the surface. So this gives me closure with somatic tracking where I can bring curiosity toward them. This in short can be what integration means for me from now on. I'm posting this to cater perspectives.
I know that I didn't say anything new though, I'm just piecing stuff together where I am with my understanding. Thank you for reading this.