(07-03-2025, 10:05 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]UH was a nightmare. It forced a specific level of physical healing vs emotional healing, and it became unusable for a lot of people as a result. Instead of being the "Swiss army knife" I had hoped, t was causing issues because there was too much of one, which couldn't be adjusted if you wanted the other.
I have found myself very not impressed with "experts" in the last 5-7 years. I have also found that a lot of the mainstream conclusions about things in the realms of psychology and related fields are actually incorrect. My repeated experience has been that I do the R&D and experiments, conclude they're partially or completely wrong, and then 2 to 10 years later, someone publishes a book proclaiming this amazing new breakthrough that turns out to only be what I discovered years previous, which everyone ignored because mainstream science/psychology said otherwise. So I'm not going to just believe or accept whatever "the experts" say, especially about something like trauma.
My current research, development and experimentation has been strongly pointing to that trauma is almost entirely an emotional and somewhat mental phenomenon, and the physical aspects of it are the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma. The only areas where I have found significant physical correlation resulting are in the brain itself, which is also a result of the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma.
I if your belief in what "the experts" have to say is making that belief something you are trying to make true at a subconscious level, and thus making harder to deal with, defeating your efforts to do otherwise, and using as an escape mechanism to hold yourself in place?
When the time comes, I will be looking at a subliminal specifically for PTSD and complex PTSD. In the mean time, may I suggest you try using Brain Optimizer, if you have not already? It may be helpful in changing the pathways you have developed based on conscious and subconscious trauma responses.
Ironically the conventional view is actually that trauma is just mental or emotional, that it’s “in your head”, and with enough willpower, courage and persistence, you can push through it. I used to believe that myself. I followed that mindset for years, pushing through shutdown, emotional collapse and physiological distress, telling myself it was just “mental resistance” or fear of change.Sometimes it was, and it could be overcome, absolutely. But most of the times, it was not. Honestly, that belief contributed heavily to why my nervous system is so dysregulated now. It’s an extremely limited way to relate to trauma and I learned the hard way that it doesn't work. At least not for complex trauma
(07-03-2025, 10:05 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]My current research, development and experimentation has been strongly pointing to that trauma is almost entirely an emotional and somewhat mental phenomenon, and the physical aspects of it are the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma. The only areas where I have found significant physical correlation resulting are in the brain itself, which is also a result of the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma
Respectfully, but this just isn’t accurate. This viewpoint reflects a more traditional, top-down model of trauma, one that assumes if we resolve the mental and emotional roots the body will follow. That might hold for some people with mild trauma, but for those with complex, developmental, or early attachment trauma this approach tends to break down. The nervous system doesn't always respond to logic or emotional insight, it responds to safety. It’s not that the body follows the mind,in complex trauma, the two are deeply intertwined. If the body doesn’t feel safe, the mind can’t resolve what it needs to. And without directly addressing physiological states like freeze, collapse or chronic hypervigilance, emotional or cognitive work alone often falls short
Modern trauma science, including Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal theory and the clinical work of people like Bessel van der Kolk and Pat Ogden, has shown that trauma is stored not just in thoughts or emotions, but in the body itself. In muscle tension, fascia, breath patterns, posture, heart rate variability, vagus nerve tone, and even immune function. It’s not downstream from the mind, it’s a co-equal system. Trauma is fundamentally biopsychosocial, not just emotional or mental. Approaches like TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) which use nothing but the body’s natural tremor mechanism to release stored tension, have shown that deep trauma, even intergenerational or developmental, can begin to resolve without conscious processing at all. Just think about that, if trauma were only emotional or mental, as you suggested, that kind of somatic resolution wouldn’t even be possible
Just to be clear, the ideas I’m referring to aren’t passing theories. They’re part of an evolving, evidence based shift in how trauma is understood and treated across psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, and they’re producing real results, especially for people who haven’t been helped by traditional approaches
That’s why I believe UH worked well for me. It seemed to create a felt sense of somatic safety which allowed for emotional processing to unfold without triggering dissociation. When that foundation isn’t in place, and the system feels overwhelmed, the result isn’t growth, it’s shutdown
I also want to clarify that when I mentioned “trauma experts”, I wasn’t referring to mainstream media psychologists or conventional talk therapy. I actually agree with you that many of those frameworks are outdated or even harmful. I’m referring to people like Stephen Porges, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Bessel van der Kolk, individuals who’ve spent decades working directly with trauma in clinical settings, often outside of mainstream psychology, and whose work is heavily informed by neuroscience and somatic research
I don’t know how to create subliminals, otherwise I’d try building something like this myself. But you do. And if you apply these principles, I genuinely believe they could make a real difference for people with trauma, especially those dealing with complex or developmental issues. I hope this doesn’t come across as me trying to argue with you. One of the reasons I’m going on about it is because I genuinely believe in your expertise with subliminals, and I really think that if you explore these ideas and apply them, they would work better