Somatic Resourcing for Trauma Healing
There are two kinds of somatic resources: survival resources and expansive resources. These resources emerge from the physical experience in the present moment.
We could think of survival resources as the typical trauma responses to overwhelming stimuli: fighting, withdrawing, running away, dissociating, freezing, or over-attaching/submitting (fawning).
When we cannot take any more stimulation, we turn to these automatic survival resources for support. They are survival responses rooted in the nervous system.
And as distressing as they are, these survival responses are life trying to support life. They are ancient responses that existed before humans even existed. An innate somatic intelligence that is an effort toward survival and preservation of life. There is something here to be deeply trusted.
Sensation as a Foundational Language
You have shifted from a vague notion of wanting to be more centered in yourself to the practical elements that underlie the foundation of a felt, sensory quality that you can practice.
You can practice feeling those sensations, and begin to build that neural pathway that leads to a new way of being, rather than it just being an idea in your head that you can never seem to obtain.
