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