11-22-2016, 04:14 PM
Quote:Shannon:
In Funky's journal you and others were discussing Freezing instead of executing DMSI's script.
I'm reading a very interesting book entirely about this freeze response, called "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. Very highly reviewed on amazon and goodreads.com
It argues that this freezing is rooted in our animalistic "fight/flight/freeze" response to trauma. After escaping a predator, you will see gazelles shake uncontrollably for a little while before eating grass like nothing ever happened.
We tend to focus on fight/flight, but the freeze response is just as viable in the animal kingdom. In many cases it is the best chance of survival. Levine believes that emotional trauma caused by this response, and that many mental illnesses are rooted in the body's inability to escape the tension built up in the nervous system from the freeze response.
Humans have forgotten how to do this, and because we have the neocortex, we can partially override this natural release and mess up the process even further through denial and rationalization. My guess is that myself and others are doing this to some degree.
I'm not sure how this could help the script, but it seems very related and I thought you might find it helpful or just relevant/interesting.
I definately beleive this is a BIG part of the issue through my own trauma. I do know what to do with girls, i've done it so many times before but it's the trauma that causes the fear and such that has covered that up and not allowed me to access it. So for me I don't believe it's the "not knowing what to do thing" (though yes that may apply to some) it's the other stuff covering that up.
Interesting because i'm doing SE sessions myself, Peter Levine has some good stuff though his books are a little difficult to read.
Quote:I've had this happen to me on any sub with a healing component. For me, it was like this:
Imagine you have an open, festering sore and apply some kind of cleaning agent on it. It burns like hell while you're cleaning it, and when you stop, it feels better. But... there's still infection there. It feels like relief because much of the infection's been cleansed. Once you apply the cleansing agent again, it starts to hurt all over again -- maybe even worse, because now you're going past the surface level infection and hitting the source.
E2 is that cleansing agent, removing all the nasty emotional trauma in your subconscious. It doesn't hurt as bad when you stop running it, but as soon as you run it again, you start to resist and feel that emotional pain again.
Wow, thanks man. That's a perfect way to put it. I didn't even consider something like that.
Quote:There are two possible things that this could be. The first one people have talked about. The other one is... you've just broken through and you're proud of yourself and all happy about it... and then... "Back to work. More work to do."
"Awwww man...."
You may want to take some time (hours) to allow the victory to be savored.
Hmm interesting, I did have the feeling that I should have just left it alone for a while longer but it was too late when I put it back on. I'll keep that in mind for next time to just enjoy it more instead of going back to more listening. Thanks.
