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BODY – MIND – SOUL
THE BODY IS THE MIND
The Body IS The Mind is a work in progress beginning with this personal compendium of books, teachers and body-centered modalities for healing childhood trauma and PTSD:
Primary Sources |
Commentary |
| THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk, MD | 1. 07-04-21: Introduction: Trauma causes alcoholism 2. 07-05-21: Damaging emotional conflicts 3. 07-06-21: Trauma damages left brain speech 4. 07-23-21: Meditation on Steroids 5. 07-24-21: INTEROCEPTION: Traumatic Awareness 6. 07-25-21: What were you thinking right before you acted out your childhood trauma? 7. 07-30-21: Communication is the opposite of trauma 8. 07-31-21: Alexitymia: Emotional Retardation 9. 08-19-21: EMDR does not revisit the original trauma in detail 10. 08-20-21: EMDR is for patients so traumatized that full recovery is thought to be impossible 11. 08-21-21: Lock down your childhood trauma instead of acting it out 12. 08-22-21: Final Healing: patient’s internal landscape manifests critical mass of Self 13. 08-25-21: Restructuring inner mind maps and movies 14. 09-08-21: Epilogue: Seeking Safety |
| ANCHORED: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana, LCSW | 1. 06-17-22: Downregulate threats, upregulate connection 2. 06-18-22: Anchored in autonomic safety 3. 06-19-22: Parasympathetic nervous system 4. 06-20-22: Chronic autonomic state of survival mode 5. 6-21-22: THE BODY IS THE MIND: Neuroception and intuition 6. 06-27-22: Neuroception: Neurological perception 7. 06-29-22: Reprocessing our autonomic nervous system 8. 06-30-22: Adaptations to trauma |
| In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate, MD | 1. 10-28-21: Drugs are self-treatment for adverse childhood experiences 2. 10-29-21: Addiction has no separate existence 3. 10-30-21: Inadequate parents create inadequate children 4. 11-10-21: Adverse childhood experiences will create adversarial adults 5. 11-16-21: Dope is the solution to dopamine deprived adverse childhoods 6. 11-17-21: Properly nurtured children do not need to sooth themselves 7. 11-30-21: Attunement is the conduit by which a preverbal child can realize that he is loved 8. 12-08-21: 12 Step meetings create a new cultural paradigm to update the old one 9. 12-09-21: Pure grace allowed my grandfather to recover from alcoholism 10. 12-10-21: Is redemption complete abstinence from drugs? 11. 12-11-21: In our culture, the suppression of emotion is a major source of stress 12. 12-13-21: Self-mastery is self-induced 13. 12-15-21: Higher Consciousness 14. 12-16-21: Super-ego fears its own annihilation in bowing to higher power |
| Gerry Greenberg, Trauma Release Therapist | Mr. Greenberg is a Jungian analyst who instructed me to become a mediator, read WAKING THE TIGER, and affirm that: “I am in my body and it is good.” |
| WAKING THE TIGER: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine, Phd | Somatic Experiencing of flexibility and resiliency through pendulation of expansion and contraction |
| Paul McDuff Allen, MD (1942 – 2020) | The late Dr. Allen was a Core Energetics practitioner, Certified Sexological Bodyworker and retired OB/GYN who intimately facilitated the birth of my capacity to love and heal. Paul also introduced me to the work of Reich and the City of New Orleans. |
| CHARACTER ANALYSIS by Wilhelm Reich, MD | Reich is the godfather of body-centered therapy with his seminal work involving dissolving body armor, free love and the orgone accumulator. Reich saw character as a layer of resistances. |
| CORE ENERGETICS: Developing the Capacity to Love And Heal by John C. Perriakas, MD | The title says it all, love is the most important thing. Dr. Perriakas and his wife Eva were the bridge between mind-body work and spirit. The message of his book is to get over yourself so that you can go out and be of service to the world. |
| A WAY OF LIFE: CORE ENERGETICS by Stuart Black | This little book was a quick read. Core is the practice of actively opening body, mind and soul in order to more fully engage with the world and all the people in it. |
| Michael Filipowitch | Mr. Filipowitch is an actor, psychedelic shaman and Core Energetics practitioner who cured me in one session by telling me: “You’re doing it all to yourself.” |
| Robert Kirby | Mr. Kirby is an American Core Energetics practitioner living in Australia who taught me how to open up past my resistances. |
| Radical Aliveness Core Energetics | Ann Bradney’s now-defunct sacred space at the Santa Monica Airport is where I made the life-altering decision to practice real pranayama breathing in my hatha yoga practice. A community RACE group is where I set my intention to become a healer. RACE taught me that I am the one who should be leading. |
| Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing | EMDR correlates painful childhood memories with corresponding body memory to reprogram and diminish post-traumatic stress disorder. EMDR was the clinical process that finally enabled me to find my way out. |
| Yoga Teacher Training | Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Beverly Hills cured me of my addiction to joining and therefore is probably the last and final new group that I will ever need to join again. Yoga taught me that it is now my time to lead. |
| Meditation | Meditation is best practiced at short intervals throughout the day until you reach a state of well-meditated mindfulness. I begin each day by meditating before I open my eyes and get out of bed. Then I meditate to breath and movement during my daily morning yoga practice. The only time that I can sit and meditate for longer than 15 minutes is when I am in group meditation. Left to myself, I go straight to oneness with infinity without wasting a lot of time. |
| Liberation | Eckhart Tolle might say it something like this: Breathe meditation into your body and exhale to experience your own formless, timeless reality. |
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