Peter Levine has a belief that Trauma Can be healed and can be a powerful awakening. It is not easy, in fact in damn well hurts, it is scary, it is fearful. I know, I have been there through grief and childhood woundings. I also know I could not have had such joy in life if I had not started with "self-development" and continued into the pain and fear. I intrinsically knew that when I was confronted with pain, anger, fear and darkness this was where i was meant to be and that

What Peter Levine is Talking about here is the sympathetic nervous system is "stuck on" (hyperarousal) and then the helplessness of being stuck in the parasympathetic system (hypoarousal) in response to a life threatening event Both are poor conditions to be in with everything racing there is impulsivity, risk taking, hypevigilance, poor decision making, frozen terror and addictions and self-destructive behaviours. With hypoarousal we shut down, have no energy, feel that lif