0:00 - 2:42 - Intro
- We will talk about trauma in the fascia
- How trauma impacts movement through the Fascia
- We are going to look out how the healthy, rhythmic cycle of trauma and how it relates to movement.
- Also look at how the pathological form of trauma impacts our movement capacity.
- We will cover practical takeaways
2:43 - 3:57 - What trauma actually is
- Any feeling that goes unfelt; usually coupled with being uncomfortable
- Simple trauma examples; ways You wouldn’t actually think of trauma.
3:58 - 6:01 - How trauma plays out in the Fascia
- A feeling unfelt is a stressor; because You are denying a piece of Yourself frm showing up.
- An unfelt feeling can result in dysregulation, nervous system overwhelm
- What happens in Your Fascia during trauma; You reduce Movement optimization neurologically (sensory input is ignored) and mechanically (tissue stiffening)
6:02 - 13:08 - How trauma works mechanistically
- 2 options to an event experience, (1) trauma (2) Integration; one is destructive, the other is supportive respectively
- If it is not Love & Joy there’s usually cnfusion around it; this is why children are so easily dysregulated.
- Emotions are new felt senses; sensory; this makes it Right Hemisphere (RHEM) led.
- RHEM led is our Biological template.
- How the Left Hemisphere handles new emotions.
- Neural Dysregulation is when the Right Hemisphere loses its capacity to contain the Felt Sense/implicit feeling.
- What an Implicit Feeling is.
- Definition of an Explicit feeling; You know what it feels like.
- Implicit Feeling Felt Sense —> Right Hemisphere
- Explicit Feeling Name FOR the Felt Sense —> Left Hemisphere
- Naming to Tame; allows for the library of the LHEM to build up.
13:09 - 15:00 - What Integration is
- Trauma Resolution = Felt the feeling, named the feeling, then working with the feeling.
- In a healthy emotional childhood Your parents are Your Safety Bubble (so You can feel the feelings with them); as You adult You internalize the Safety Bubble. This allows You to process emotions without dysregulating.
- Review of Integration (Emotional)
- If You feel safe —> You will integrate any feeling regardless of how uncomfortable
15:01 - 16:34 - When Impicit Feelings go unnamed
- The RHEM is dysregulated and remains that way; A human cannot function when dysregulated.
- The LHEM will either offer a coping mechanism or dissassociate if the implicit feeling is perceived as life-threatening.
- How distraction can be a negative in the emotional integration cycle.
16:35 - 18:30 - The role of the DMN and the Left Hemisphere
- The Default Mode Network (DMN) becomes pathological when it is activated via coping mechanisms.
- The DMN allows You to get things done without being present.
- Examples of how the LHEM can activate the DMN, and how this links to trauma.
- Integration still allows RHEM leading
- Trauma usually happens when leading from LHEM
18:31 - 20:32 - How trauma and the pathological DMN effects the Body and movement.
- When creating trauma we are likely to be leading from LHEM; this results in the brain cutting off all sensory information.
- How compensation establishes itself.
- This is where most of the population is sitting.
- There is a spectrum for trauma
- If You have Pain You have trauma.
- Injury and Car Examples
- Implicit Feelings from emotions are no different than implicit feeling from physicality
20:33 - 27:54 - Movement Optimization gets worse over time by contiuous triggering of that trauma
- Dysregulation is Danger without escape (safety)
- What triggers are.
- Unintegrated Feelings (trauma) classifies traumatic implicit feelings as dangerous.
- Library analogy for the Amygdala.
- Dog & Child Example of how triggers are created.
- Activated triggers bring You back to the implicit feeling You had when the traum was first established.
- Your present-day perception is biased by Your traumas of the past, integration creates a reset.
- The importance of letting Your child lead.
- How basic daily things in life can become trauma
- The Dog & Child example matured as an adult.
- The different styles of coping created by the LHEM.
27:55 - 29:40 - Trauma sensations / triggers can stack
- Summertime picnic example stacked with Dog & Child example.
-Unrelated triggers will stack with original triggers so long as it is coupled with original felt sense.
- This is how anxiety can become so severe; Your window of safety shrinks.
29:41 - 36:28 - What’s the solution set.
- The goal is to return to RHEM, this needs to be reverse engineered
- Solution: Amygdala Deactivation, Hippocampus Activation
- Humans are hardwired to learn because it activates Love & Joy.
-STEP 1: How to deactivate the amygdala; the role of a therapist.
- Chase uncomfortable feelings while feeling safe.
- STEP 2: Use descriptives for the implicit feeling; match explicit with implicit.
- STEP 3: Why do You feel what You’re feeling + example.
- STEP 4: Attach the Present-tense to the siutation, empower Yourself.
- Allows brain to reorganize itself around the implicit feelings.
- You don’t need to know where the implicit feeling comes from, You just need to re-create it and integrate it.
- This gets You closer to RHEM leading
36:29 - 39:12 - Memories / triggers lose power when trauma is integrated.
- More often than not people are not present and are instead continuously LHEM operatin due to activated triggers
- Niek can detect if someone is operating from LHEM or RHEM by the way they respond.
- Being good at coping is not the same as Integration
- Niek feels this is the Rate Limiting Step for optimizing movement.
- Review of how to Integrate
RESOURCES
Parent-Child Safety Bubble
