I'm from Poland. We Poles are highly traumatised people due to our tragic history, 100- year-partitions by Germans, Russians, Austria-Hungary. Resurrections, I World War, ll World War. Transgenerational traumas, losses of relatives, suffering, alcoholism etc. My great grandfather lost his life in l World War, my grand dad was taken to labour camp in Germany for 4 years. For this time my 8-12 year old dad was husband and dad for his mom and two younger sisters. He worked in a dairy and brought dairy products home. They survived thanks to him. But that wasn't a task for 10 year old boy to be responsible for mom and sisters. He was a sensitive and talented boy. After the war- Teachers told my grandma- he was very smart and should be sent to a electronics boarding school. The school was 300km from home. No telephones, contact with parents only on vacations. Young boy, no parental guidance, I guess- missing home, war traumas. That is when his alcoholism started. He never recovered. People were very unaware those days. And they traumatised their children. I am one of them. I am 66, I am trying to heal my traumas. But only recently I've found You, Peter and your somatic experience and I' m trying to regain contact with my body- because I was dissociated from it. I'm starting my adventure with your method, I'm learning what's it all about. But I feel it will be helpfull. I love listening to you. Your voice and your personality are so calm. Listenig to you makes me peaceful. Thanks Peter for what you are doing

I overcome My PTSD by surrender. I believe when i truley surrendered to trying to not feel the terror, the anixety, the frightening feelings thoughts and demonic images i experienced a peace i have never experienced before in my whole life. In that moment i healed the trauma. Surrender is hard because as you surrender more and more to the trauma the sensations become even more overwhelming but when you finally let go and allow your body to do what it needs to do it passes

@PeterLevinePhD

5 ай бұрын

Spot on!

@biancasinclair.

4 ай бұрын

So happy for you ❤

@lesleyfox-oreilly8131

3 ай бұрын

❤ this❤

@BharatSingh-il6jh

2 ай бұрын

How long? Is it a daily routine till end of life

@daliagrigonyte6872

2 ай бұрын

thanks so much for sharing that. that is exactly my experience with depression and being su...dal, now im applying it to PTSD. I thought healing Depression and s. would heal it all, but apparently for me it is a separate journey

The image shown at the end is Newgrange in Ireland if anyone is interested

I am just beginning to unfold my trauma through listening to a lot of your material. Thank you Peter🙏

This video is from a genious soul! Everyone, therapist or not, should watch it. Thank you Peter Levine 🙏🙏🙏

Always satisfying to listen to these talks. My body-spirit-life-force feels seen, heard, understood, believed, gotten.

"The starry night" by Vincent Van Gogh shows the vortexes as well thanks for the video, Peter!

Wow! Praise be....(I never use that phrase). I wish he could be my therapist:)) It's hard to find a somatic therapist this brilliant. I've been trying my whole life!!! I won't give up....but oh my what a road!! May you be blessed Peter Levine always!!

Thank you 🙏 I’m experiencing FREEZE 🥶 mode at the moment. I suffer from childhood abuse trauma, willing to help myself but not sure how .

@MariaPardo-MaryVi

Ай бұрын

I am practising spiritual teaching and meditación that is helping me.❤

@Tinyteacher1111

29 күн бұрын

I am too and can hardly function! My trauma is from my adult mentally disabled son. He’s been violent, abusive, etc, is an addict, steals my meds, etc. I can’t have him around me!

@Tarotinzichten

6 күн бұрын

I have the same with my mom, distance is the best, they will hurt you again ​@Tinyteacher1111

One of the best video on KZread explaining the brilliant work of Peter Levine! Absolutely love it ❤

@PeterLevinePhD

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Sr. Peter levine tal vez no lea mi mensaje por que es en español, Pero si así fuera quiero expresar mi mas grande respeto admiración y agradecimiento Por su trabajo Hace algun tiempo escuché un vídeo llamado " curar el trauma " Y cada palabra cada síntoma describia mi experiencia Tenía que investigar quién había echo tan importante estudio Asi llegó a usted apenas empiezo pero me aferró a esto como un náufrago a su salvavidas Gracias....

I cannot thank you enough, Dr Peter Levine! Your wisdom and guidance are changing my life. Deep respect!

When you mentioned the "beatific nature" counter vortex and the "demonic visions" trauma vortex, I thought metaphorically speaking it sounded a bit like the garden of Eden and the Knowledge snake. Sometimes I wonder just how literally we pay attention to old religious texts and just how different the original meaning is supposed to be. But then again, I have never had a lot of interest in the Bible nor read it, but it sounded so familiar. Must be so ingrained in us it's practically invisible!

WoW! I loved your presentation and the intrinsic relationship between the traumatic experience and the spiritual awakening! Back in my research days at the university of Cambridge I wondered how much science was missing out in neglecting ancient spiritual wisdom. My research was on identities, which were, and still are, I’m afraid, seen as eminently social. They have always been more than that, from my own mystical religious understanding. Thank you so much. I knew this day would arrive, inevitably. It came via a researcher and thinker that I so much value and respect and just as I am learning more about trauma and traumatic experiences. I wish we could meet and I’d learn more from you personally. Stay blessed Dr Peter Levine 💫

@PeterLevinePhD

4 ай бұрын

Come to San Diego on Feb 29

@faranazahamadkeshavjee3293

4 ай бұрын

@@PeterLevinePhD thank you! What’s happening on the 29th?

@PeterLevinePhD

4 ай бұрын

@@faranazahamadkeshavjee3293 Look up the Embody lab, they're putting up a conference

@faranazahamadkeshavjee3293

4 ай бұрын

@@PeterLevinePhD thank you! I wish I could get the funding to be present. All the best

The past two years I have been working on childhood trauma and CFS by using somatic and Feldenkrais exercises and learning the theory about it. I am now in a phase that I can feel sensations instead of thinking what I am feeling. Seeing this video caused a major shift in my body. It felt like my brain was finally satisfied and I felt a deep peace in my body. Finally I can understand all the things I've learned and see the coherence between them. Thank you very much Peter Levine!

@sunflowersisters1245

3 ай бұрын

Have the somatic and Feldenfrais exercises been helpful?

@dustyblue7727

3 ай бұрын

Yes, very much. They have helped me becoming aware of the sensations in my body and be with them. This was the groundwork for being with the sensations of trauma.@@sunflowersisters1245

@dustyblue7727

3 ай бұрын

Yes, very much. They have learned me to feel en to be with the sensations in my body. And this was the groundwork of being with the sensations of trauma. @@sunflowersisters1245

@dustyblue7727

3 ай бұрын

@@sunflowersisters1245 Yes, very much. They have learned me to feel en to be with the sensations in my body. And this was the groundwork of being with the sensations of trauma.

thank you for the clarifying overlay at 16:00 about "going to the other direction".

Beyond brilliant Peter❤Thank you for such clear demonstrations ❤

Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom, Peter! ❤️🙏💐 Lots of love from Germany

Thank you Peter!

Thank you so much!

Very well explained, thank you so much!!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your work! It is so helpful ❤

Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️

the way you move between the 2 vortexes is akin to TAIJI aka that which gave rise to yin-yang. The co-existence of the 2 vortexes also align with yin-yang theory that "there's no yin without yang and no yang without yin". Further extrapolating to western spirituality, "God never give you more than you can handle", i.e. God give you suffering and the corresponding means(grace) to overcome that suffering at the same time.

Fabulous talk! Thank you

Love this ❤

What a treasure, my profound thanks. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on tuvan throat singing and gnostic Christianity.

Thank you, Peter! Very beautifully explained. Thank you for sharing your fantastic work!

@PeterLevinePhD

8 ай бұрын

You're welcome, this video is meant to be watched multiple times to fully grasp and get a hold of the powerful concepts explained. It's particularity helpful to watch when you're overwhelmed or shut down to remind yourself of what you need to do, that can't be underestimated.

@ullaszaszak3576

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely, it surely will be re-watched! Thanks again! @@PeterLevinePhD

@chriscampbell703

5 ай бұрын

What specific part should we watch multiple times? It is hard to watch the entire 40 min in a moment of activation

@margott.244

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

thank you!

Someone please remember the Navajo prayer Peter Levine uses. I saw once a video about it.

Thank you, Peter! Very nicely explained I am delighted with your work, having some problems myself and knowing some of the other theories associated with body work. I'm also very impressed with how you connected it to the Celtic tradition! I have a question, I don't know if it's relevant but maybe to give you some insight, if you noticed the Celtic symbol has three vortexes, do you think that might have something to do with what you're talking about?

@mstefanovic9475

4 ай бұрын

Example celticnationsmagazine.com/the-celtic-chakras/ which also reminds me of the symbol of Okinawa hsbudo.blogspot.com/2016/05/hidari-gomon-ryukyu-symbol.html

I’m listening to my adult son who has traumatized every me and his father, is currently yelling his head off about something pertaining to school and frightening my dog and me! This is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m also battling Lyme infections and other viruses and disabled, trying to run a house, after I had a 40 year teaching career. This saddens me that I’m stuck so I can’t even move from this house now. I’m drowning!

@ma4170

27 күн бұрын

Hey, Tinyteacher... I understand your situation and feel for you. I don't have kids of my own but perhaps you'll have to drawn on more patience in you. I believe it will pass and till then you'll have to let things happen as they don't seem to be in your control. I hope and pray things get better soon for you.

@Tinyteacher1111

27 күн бұрын

@@ma4170 Thank you, but (That’s the key word here. Your response had a “but” in it, and I don’t need people assuming what I’m like after I made one comment a while ago, that I even forgot I made.), to clarify… I don’t think there’s anyone that has more patience than I do. I taught high school for 40 years and had an exemplary career. I also fostered animals worked at 2 shelters, and raised 2 children mostly by myself (was divorced from an emotionally abusive husband and had one child who turned out wonderfully, and who has brain damage.). If ANYTHING, I have too much patience and needed to set more boundaries with my son.) I spewed out my frustrations here, and have been trying to recover from Lyme infections, and have made great progress, but I’m still fighting for his life and my own. I don’t think you should make assumptions about a comment made long ago. You don’t have any idea of what I nor my family has been through. I’m in horrible chronic pain and trying very hard to regulate my nervous system back to a normal state, so I can actually sit down and get things done. I find it hard to be 69, mostly alone, and in pain with brain dysfunction from chronic infections. Please be more considerate and helpful!

Brilliant,the infinity ,red shift blue shift ,the ying and yang 🙏

Thank you very much for the valuable presentation. It couldn't be explained more simply to describe such a complex topic. Understanding the trauma we have experienced frees people from a lot of suffering. I am so humbly to be student of SE. my deep gratitude.❤🧡💚💜🙏

Yoga, tãi chi, Buddha, Hindus, Mayans etc had mind body energy as the way for many civilizations

Can someone please explain to me what hes saying, what the message is and what hes explaining? I dont get it

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I appreciate this because it's very informative but what is the tool then as someone on my own to heal? I've been in therapy ten years and no one uses this that I've come across.

@mariannegraham5438

Ай бұрын

Hi @dakine4238 , I am doing a course with Irene Lyon called “smart body smart mind”. It’s all online and she uses a lot of Peters work as well as others. I am in a place with no therapists of this kind but find her work good. That is a paid course but if you search her she has a few free courses or cheaper ones and heaps of free yt videos. I watched her videos for 6 months before I paid. But there are many others as well I’m sure but she is one I can recommend. Good luck to you ❤

@mariannegraham5438

Ай бұрын

Irene Lyon has a course online based on Peter’s work. She has a lot of free things.

Thank you. We say tawhid in Islam. God the most merciful has the beautiful yet sometimes opposite names. like Al-Qaabid (The Witholder) and Al-Baasit (The Extender)

Ong I had almost the same dream and vision with the vortex’s. I was learning AT at the time. In the dream I was laying in a bath of acid. It was buried my back and the vortex was above me. Very weird. I have back issues so assumed it was related.

@PeterLevinePhD

3 ай бұрын

Keep writing your dreams

I know what I would need to do now. But how do I get grounded in the first place and how do I hold the pieces together and then ground myself again on my own? It seems impossible to do.

@JessikaSchilling

Ай бұрын

Oh I think I heard an audio guided meditation like that before from Tom Bunn at Soar, to conquer the fear of flying. You image yourself on the beach. A wave comes in, it’s an image of an airplane, but then the wave rushes back out and you are back at the beach. Each wave bringing just one scene and then rushing back out. But the blue piece was missing. With the blue piece it would go something like this: You’re on the beach and a wave with an image of an airplane comes in. It’s an image of a safe and high tech airplane. The wave rushes out and you’re back at the beach again.

Can someone explain it to me in other words? I watched the whole video and I didn’t understand too much

@Fayefreeman

Ай бұрын

😮it was so clearly explained

@MatthewWoolaston

Ай бұрын

I can try... Minor disruptions in life cause us to change in minor ways, but overall, the flow in how we live is mostly unchanged. This was the pebbles and stone in the stream of our life force. This life force is just how we exist in life. When our organism, our body, is just existing as per its default programming + how it has adapted based on life experience. Big and overwhelming life events have major disruptions to our life force if they aren't processed. These experiences are so big that they don't fit into our normal experience and they break out. This is the rupture on the boundary of the river that creates a trauma vortex. I once heard trauma described as when emotional pain doesn't have a relational home. This wasn't really covered in the video, but I almost imagine as the 2nd counter vortex as the unresolved emotional pain resulting from the event that caused the main vortex. Without any way to resolve these vortexes, we learn to restrict our flow of life to avoid getting sucked into the turbulence of the vortex. That is a narrowing of where we feel safe in life. What is then described is how to resolve the vortexes so that you can regain full flow. He went through his learning of what didn't work and where he finally landed. In short, you need to experience a bit of both vortexes, bit in a way that can be handled without getting sucked in. You need to experience some of the original pain (the ruptured vortex) + the relational home (the counter vortex) in order to integrate the experience. I think of this as a child who falls and scrapes their knee. With a good enough parent or safe adult nearby, the child will seek comfort. There is the shock to the system (the fall and scraped knee), the physical experience of pain, adrenalin, ect.. then the emotional experience of bring soothing by the parent or other attachment figure. That explample could become a pebble in the flow of life where the child learns to run with a bit more caution, but is still able to live as it did before the event. If the child never got soothed after the fall, it could become an emotional trauma. Any fear of fall could become overwhelming because there was no soothing after the fall. The child could learn to avoid running I'm not a therapist, this is just my understanding of what was described.

@ThFile

Ай бұрын

@@MatthewWoolaston thank you very much, so much clearer

What are your thoughts on Vipassana and just observing sensations?

@alexandraknowles1356

Ай бұрын

As a vipassana practitioner, and a senior SE student, I’ll write my first thoughts about the similarities and differences. I came to my version of your question by wondering why years of noticing ( aka mindfulness) has not brought about any trauma resolution like SE does. Firstly in vipassana there is the thing we are aware of, but not our response to it. So with pendulation in SE it’s really important to notice that , for eg , we feel more spacious where before we had a knot in the belly. The SE practitioner will invite the client to “ notice that”, or “ really soak that in”, which is part of what makes the counter vortex gain as much power as the trauma vortex. I could probably write about this for hours, but I’ll leave it there for now. If you have any thoughts , let me know.

@dakine4238

Ай бұрын

@@alexandraknowles1356 thanks that makes sense. I think I observe things with Vipassana but it keeps coming back whereas I see with SE it gets resolved somehow.

@dakine4238

Ай бұрын

@@alexandraknowles1356 that's a good point. I know in Vipassana you are just supposed to be equanimous and it seems with SE people actually resolve the feeling or issue faster.

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jsut watch spinal tap

I feel so confused, I cannot follow trough.

@PeterLevinePhD

3 ай бұрын

How so? Can you elaborate ?

@angelicacroitoru4946

3 ай бұрын

I've been trough neglect since birth, sexual abuse by age of 3, also by then my mother camed into my life just to scare the soul out of me..and more traumas all my childhood. I'm watching your videos hoping to find help but I see lot of explanations of what trauma is and less help. This video in particular made me feel dizzy. I really cannot follow trough

Dear Dr Peter Levine…how can you retire if you have many people to heal? How, knowing what you know, don’t heal until you are dead? You are too young not to continue to heal people!! Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, who was a cardiothoracic surgeon, stoped working and doing surgeries at the age of 95. How can you retire so young? I just don’t understand. If I were you I would help humanity till my death.

@asafeplacepodcast2690

5 ай бұрын

You're experiencing some grief with Peter's retirement. But his many videos are timeless and will help generations to come. Enjoy your retirement Peter

Sigh.

Very useful this visual representation and explanation! Thank you! 🩷