Your Body Remembers
Dr. Bessel A. vanderKolk, founder and medical director of the Trauma Center, often refers to trauma as “a disease of not being able to be present.” With trauma there is a total lack of choice. Trauma can be things like rape, war, domestic abuse, car accidents, death of a loved one or childhood neglect.
Our bodies have great capacity when it comes to storing bad memories. The body processes some of these memories and experiences and the rest is passed on to our nervous system, where it rests in our bodies untreated for several years to come, until one takes a conscious step to get rid of it. The unwanted trauma can be a source of many mental and physical ailments that exist in our society today. The negative feelings associated with this state of health can cause damage beyond one’s wildest imagination.…