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Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine. Medical researchers have known for decades that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure life-long symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to unexplained physical pain and harmful "acting out" behaviors. As a young stress researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Levine found that all animals, including humans, are born with a natural ability to rebound from these distressing situations.

On Healing Trauma, this respected therapist and teacher brings you face to face with his effective new treatment - not a "talking" cure, but a deep physiological process for releasing your past traumas and instilling a harmonious awareness of your body.

"When we are confronted with a life-threatening situation," begins Dr. Levine, "our bodies respond with an enormous surge of metabolic energy - the "fight, flight, or freeze response." But animals in the wild undergo a second process following such an event: a dramatic physical discharge of this excess energy that releases them completely from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Shamanic healing rituals bear a striking resemblance to this phenomenon, but Western medicine has yet to take advantage of this forgotten biological mechanism

Healing Trauma distills over 35 years of Dr. Levine's pioneering work into a detailed course for awakening yoru body's innate ability to heal. Drawing on nature’s lessons, Dr. Levine teaches you each of the essential principles of his four-phase process. You will learn how and where you are storing unresolved distress; how to become more aware of your body's physiological responses to danger; and specific methods to free yourself from trauma.