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Book
Peter A. Levine · 2010
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Trauma lives in the body as thwarted survival motion; healing happens when that frozen action finally completes itself.
trauma-and-survival
The ability to feel the physical sensations of paralysis and surrender to them is the key in transforming trauma — touching the deathlike void rather than recoiling.
LEV-IUV-RC-281In this intense conflict Vince's nervous system locked up; feeling through the conflicting impulses allowed the vast survival energy to be discharged and complete.
LEV-IUV-RC-154embodiment
Constriction of sensation obliterates shades and textures in our feelings — the unspoken hell of traumatization; most Westerners share this disconnection from inner sensate compasses.
LEV-IUV-RC-221To the degree we are not embodied, basic instincts — survival and sexuality — become distorted, leaving us fearful, angry, anxious, and prone to disorders like anorexia.
LEV-IUV-RC-222mind-and-cognition
Bottom-up processing is more potent than top-down: we are first motor creatures; we think because we are, rather than existing because we think.
LEV-IUV-RC-220Primitive subcortical visual pathways render unconscious sketches that evoke readiness for movement — it is this premovement circuitry that drives accurate unconscious guesses.
LEV-IUV-RC-2536 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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