Balancing the nervous system: Feature in the Health Daily

With our focus on health being holistic in nature, we would like to talk a bit more about our nervous system and how the body keeps memory of past traumas which can affect physical health.

William James asserted in his revolutionary 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings that “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” 

Two generations later, Rainer Maria Rilke also wrote about the inextricable dialogue between the physical body and the psychoemotional interior landscape we call the “soul”.

Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk. In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (public library).

Read more: https://thehealthydaily.com/2021/02/06/nervous-system-balancing/