Such a great and wonderful and helpful show!! Both the interviewer and interviewee. Your questions, being real and vulnerable in clarifying and also restating... and Steven Levine, just a lovely and beautiful human who is and has been helping the planet for years. It is a continual unfolding process of healing & transforming trauma, understanding and hopefully breaking the cycle of hurting each other.... and replacing with helping each other instead. So simple. and the planet is so much smaller these days. 🙏💕🌏
I had a break through with just the two breaths of a psyc breakdown in 1997 was suicidal total personality break should've been hospitalized~ However sine of the experiences of the run away completely flight from my current life created many experiences that with my own recovering alone at home isolated except for very few visits with family kids, g-kids friend or 2 in phone & these connections on social media with Peter & a few Others who really know about healing COMPLEX LIFE LONG UNHEALED TRAUMA FROM WOMB TO BIRTH THROUGH UNTIL BEGAN SOBRIETY IN 1986~ GOOD RECOVERY UNTIL PSCH BREAKDOWN IN 1996 ~ 1997 HOW IT CAME OUT HERE NOW IN 2024 MAY 25TH ON internet with Peter was the 2 breaths While on my flight from my triggered abusive e life on 1997 I ran to childhood homes to SF Bay Area~ The 1st house was age 1 to 6 yrs. My hand prints are in the driveway cemetery. While visiting the house I saw the hand prints~ my entire being temem ered putting my little girl hand in the wet Venecia with my father. It was dated. I suddenly felt that I am REAL. I DID live here as a child. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED FREAKY DID HAIRBALL TO YOU A REAL CHILD HERE. THE FINDING OF MY HAND PRINTS IN THE CEMENT DRIVEWAY FROM AGE 4YR OLD BEGAN THE VERY LONG JOURNEY OF REMEMBERING MUCH IN MY HEAD BRAIN. HOWEVER THE HUMAN HEART IS THE REAL BOSS OF THE DATA MEMORY BANKS OF THE BRAIN IN OUR HEADS. THE MIND OF THE BEST IS CONNECTED TO THE SACRED SOUL . I BELIEVE THE VEGAS NERVE IS ALSO THE COORDINAT I R BETWEEN ALL THE THE HEAD BRAIN & MIND OF THE HEART& SEAT OF THE SOUL CONNECTING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BODY. AN INFORMATION DESIGN CATALYST FOR THE MIRACULOUSLY CREATED HUMAN BEING BODY AS A WHOLE THEY WORK TOGETHER. I LEARNED ABOUT BODY MEMORY IN THE PAST DECADE FROM WORKING ALONE WITH ONE EMOTIONALLY & INTELLECTUALLY HIGHLY INTELLIGENT ADULT DAUGHTER & ONE CLOSER GIRL FRIEND~ SO AT MY 5TH DECADE OF LIVE 25 YRS INTO RECOVERY OF MY TRUE WHOLE SELF~ I BEGAN TO SLOWLY IGNORE THE FEROCIOUS EGO FILLED WITH FEAR LEARNED TO CREATE AN OBSERVER SELF DETATCHING MORE & MORE FROM JUDGEMENT OF EMOTION & THOUGHT ALLOWING THEN TO FLOW WITHOUT ANCHORING IN ATTATCHMENT TO THE JUDGEMENT THE LABELS OF GOD BAD RIGHT WRONG AND AT4 YRS OF AGE I'M NOW FINDING A MORE COMPLETE WHOLE HEALING OF RECOVERY OF THE REAL ME. THE LONG JOURNEY FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART IS MOVING EVER SO CAREFULLY THROUGH THE TRAUMA MEMORIES THE BODY MEMORIES WHICH ARE SO UNCONSCIOUSLY SNCHORED
I would like to share some of the somatic exercises I do that help me feel more in my body and more connected and that have so miraculously enhanced my trauma therapy. 1. Stroke my arms up and down for a few moments. 2. Put one hand on my forehead and the other on my neck for a few seconds. 3. Softly massaging the point below my nose for a few seconds. 4. Rubbing my hands together until I feel some warmth and putting them onto my eyes or cheeks or jaw. 5. Tapping my whole body from feet to head. As I am suffering from trauma based anxiety I also do some exercises to find security in the present moment. For example: 1. Looking around in the room I am in and curiously noticing everything that's there. 2. Concentrating on the sensation of whatever surface my body is sitting or laying on. 3. Moving my spine like it was a water plant and thereby really feeling my spine Besides this and talk therapy I took in all information I could get about the polyvagal theory and about protection strategies that out brain develops unconsciously to protect us from further pain or even from reality. I also do guided TRE (trauma release exercise) on a weekly basis to further understand and regulate my nervous system. Furthermore I journal a lot and I thought back to what I loved when I was young and started doing that again. This is what really helps me - I hope this can be of any help or inspiration. Lots of love ❤
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
@@ToddBoehly0147 Thank you for asking! As a licensed mental health counselor, I'm always seeking to learn new ideas for working w/ patients, so I feel good learning and studying others' ideas. I'm originally from from Atlanta Georgia and moved to New Mexico.
I didn't want to be born. I now where I come from. Trauma, 0 to 12 year. I am now 66 years. I working on it. And my englisch is not very good . I'am from the netherlands. So now I learning every day. Thank you for this.😊❤
So many humans feel like you. You’re probably not from earth. Just understand that your feelings are valid, but you can realize that just have fun and everything else will fall into place. It’s so not complicated.
Dr Levine: You’ve done so much for making this world a better place and no doubt you will be remembered. I hope we still have many years of your wisdom.
Loosen up Dan! You have the Father of Somatic Experiencing on your podcast, and your first response to his first exercise was "Won't people think that's weird?" Eh?! Anyone who is experiencing the fallout from trauma will try ANYTHING if it might make them feel better (in my opinion/experience) - so breathing out saying "Voooooooo" is NOT "weird". The only thing that seemed weird to me was that this was your first response, LOL!
I am working on forgiveness: for others who caused me trauma, and myself for taking on shame and guilt for the trauma. Loving oneself unconditionally is key for me.
Years of talk therapy with little benefit, left that therapist for a psychologist who used hypnotherapy, EMDR, and IFS (Internal family systems) and, wow, rapid progress, soò grateful ❤. Talk therapy was the primer, the soil in which EMDR, IFS, and hypno, and breathing to stimulate the vagus nerve were seeded, and I blossomed. Now i'll add the Vu to the breathing. Thank you, dr Levine, for your work and dedication ❤
I am being treated by a wonderful somatic therapist that has created a safe and trusting environment to work through and unearth deep seated trauma as I am also trying to heal from chronic illness. Dr Peter Levine’s and Dr Gabor Mate’s work has been life transforming for me and I owe them a deep level of gratitude for honing a newfound compassion for my painful history of experiences. I wish everyone that could use it an effective and deeply fulfilling healing journey on your personal yet meaningful path 🙏♥️
The humming really works! I used to think it was weird when my son did it until i finally tried it. I do it when im feeling stressed. It only takes a few times until i feel better!
100% agreed. Regulation of the nervous system is paramount and the crux of the entire issue. If you can find methods to restore regulation, and get the brain to accept parasympathetic activation/ability to relax/release etc... amazing things are possible. The difficulty is convincing the brain that it is indeed safe to reactivate this parasympathetic response... because in order to do that..the brain has to register that it is safe enough to change states. This is why some people have negative responses to certain types of trauma interventions..because the nervous system is rejecting that change. This also explains why certain people do breathwork and feel zero change...or may even feel more anxiety..etc. All individuals that I have worked with that either have physical issues or trauma related issues have a phenomenal disconnect between brain and body.. even at a muscular level. This can most certainly be reprogrammed...but the disconnect is the reflection of the nervous system. The more disconnected.. the more intense the dysregulation and symptoms. Hope this helps anyone who is watched this and has not found the answers they are looking for.
only trauma brain would think that’s weird..No one who is watching Dr. Levine would thinks it’s weirds because to be following him you’ve been seeking help and seeking learning about trauma and how to heal it on purpose…not just randomly coming across him…
It's completely weird if you're doing this in public. Nobody knows what you're doing and will think it's a mental disorder or a panic attack of the sorts. Even further, it's not practical in a real-world scenario. E.G. if I'm about to do a presentation and need to calm myself, there is no way I can do this exercise in front of the crowd, then proceed with my presentation. #2 E.G. if someone is robbing me, I can't do breathwork during the robbery and overcome my fear. But yeah, in your shower it's not weird at all.
The vagus nerve is so incredible. It’s also super responsible for our swallow function which we need to live ! There is just so much neat stuff to connect our ability to heal and to live
This breath has helped heal my past Gastroperios, IBS Abaxiety dizziness constipation, and dizziness. This and meditation and brain training with tapping.Thank you for telling people this because if they would just get into a habit of this it could heal them too! Your body is hoping and waiting for you to tell it that it is safe and this is the bet way. If you yawn or pass gas, you'll know you are doing it right! xo Ava
Thank you for sharing that I have chronic nausea , cramps bloating All are worse since my own trauma then my fathers neglect in Aged Care , his trauma affected me more than my own ..... I need to let go With tears , bless you
I have a lot of childhood trauma that a lot of people all around the world have experienced. For example, abuse neglect abandonment. It wasn’t until I lost my partner in front of me in tragic circumstances that I realised that the Trauma and shock that I experienced has affected my body to the point where for a period of time of a about a year I could barely walk. My GP doesn’t understand that it’s all connected and kept sending me for scans with nothing coming back. It wasn’t until I started getting acupuncture, and doing Meditation to calm my nervous system that the chronic pain that I’ve had for four years has begun to subside. This is a brilliant interview and the world needs to be educated on how to severe trauma even from childhood can affect you as an adult physically.. I can’t believe that CPTSD or complex Trauma is not in the DSM five. I’m sure a lot of people can relate to this.
I didn't know that I've lived in my head and disembodied for decades, until I worked with a somatic experiencing therapist. That was transformative for me and helped me recover from chronic pain and befriend my body. The neuroscientist, Lisa Feldman Barrett says that the body doesn't keep the score. She says the brain keeps the score, the body is the scorecard. I'd love to see you interview her. It would be a fascinating juxtaposition to this interview with Peter Levine.
I don't think there is a real disagreement. Both Peter Levine and Bessel Van Der Kolk have clarified that when they say that trauma is stuck in the body, they mean that it's stored as a procedural memory in the brain so that the whole body keeps repeating the same reaction over and over again automatically.
@@cecilecavallaro4924 it may be placebo effect (but who cares if it works) but he also said for many people it will take more than trying it a time or two, especially if you've had deep trauma and carried it for a long time. If you are very disconnected from your body, it takes a lot of work and perhaps help from others to even notice a change in sensation. Hope this helps.
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
This is so incredibly important. I can say from my own experience that working with my nervous system has enhanced my talk therapy in a stunning kind of way. I am processing so much trauma in a few months, I never thought this was possible. I can do that because I learned how to regulate my nervous system and find security in the moment as well as feeling true compassion for myself and therefore being able to watch my inner critic and consciously deciding to stop beating myself up. It's truly like a miracle. ❤ Thank you from my heart, dear Peter Levine and Stephen Porges for your most highly valued work.
Peter Levine is such a wise person, teacher and psychotherapist. His understanding of the human suffering gives us valuable strategies to help us and clients to heal and feel alive.
I’ve heard it explained it before like, the stuckness of the trauma is not a cerebral, intellectual, cognitive thing - it’s not a puzzle or problem that Mind can solve (e.g. talk therapy). Insight alone might not be impactful. It lives in the body, and many of us are so disconnected, dissociated & almost ignoring or compartmentalizing what’s happening in our bodies. We may not have access to it unless we go and meet it there, which starts with attending, noticing, paying attention. I’ve heard Peter say that the physiological stress response needs to be able to be completed, because it’s sort of stuck frozen from the original experiences, mid-reaction, when it couldn’t resolve.
I feel stuck. Not sure how to explain it but I do know I'm not myself at the moment. Not sure why or what is going on. I'm not even thinking normally. Not bad thinking just not thinking if that makes since. I've been working on myself but not sure why I'm not feeling better or why I feel the way I'am.
@debrakarr I also have more work to do. I know I need to try to find a good therapist and resume keep on keeping on! Best wishes and much healing to you!🌷
That made me cry when i thot does my dad know i cared so much for him.. especially in his 12 yr dementia journey.. and dying in my presence. He still gives me super specific signs from across the veil which is magnificently validating that awareness does indeed continue crossing realms. Grief is fascinating. Trauma is such a gift! Never said that before!
Very helpful. Thank you. Re scientists talking about their metaphysical experiences: The Jung interviews from 1957-59 at the end of his life on YT now show him talking about his - so that's another example
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
Peter Levine.....what a beautiful human being! Thank you so much for so for having the courage to tell us your personal stories. I loved the Einstein one. Your books have helped me in my healing journey. Thanx also for encouraging us to tell our stories too. I love you.
I don’t believe any child gets out of childhood without trauma. Bullies prey on smaller, weaker creatures. Children are the perfect target for the anger of traumatized adults. We all need this.
Any “Bad” Experience doesn’t necessarily have to be traumatizing. If the kid has a regulated nervous system then it’s likely to be able to process the stress caused by an event and live on without storing it. If the caretakers are traumatized however it is very likely that they will pass it on to their children as the child will copy the NS of the people it spends the most time with in the first 3yrs.
@@louisebotos7321 True. My mother abused me when my dad was at work so he never saw the full brunt of it, and most adults turned a blind eye to it when I was growing up.
Are the two of you related? When I saw the video thumbnail, I thought it was a younger and older version of the same man. I was surprised to learn that is not the case. On to a relevant portion of this comment, the fact you are both helping the world to heal themselves is such a beautiful gift and extremely great use of your time and talents. Thank you both!
In 2020 I came across NICABM's training about mastering the treatment of trauma. It was here that I found out about treating trauma from the bottom up (i.e. through the body)...Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Dr. Pat Ogden's work), EMDR, and other somatic modalities changed how I understood my own experiences as well as those of others. I really appreciate this interview! Your willingness to be vulnerable and try out some techniques is awesome! and great questions! Thanks so much for this.
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
Somatic Experiencing changed my life, both personally and professionally. Thank you Peter, what a gift to be able to be so gentle and agile in therapy... not enough words.... Your work is reaching far and wide. Gratitude from Namibia...
It's unfortunate that the interviewer tried to intellectualize everything that Mr. Levine was sharing from a depth of presence & experience that far surpassed the thinking mind. I was SO touched & helped by this presentation. The boat story encompassing Einstein's appearance was awesome. Everything Mr. Levine shared was totally believable & people who are in "ascension mode" get this! I've had the same experience of people's doubt drowning out perfectly valid attempts to be helpful-- I can think of some linked to teaching EFT methods. FAR time to recognize that we're moving beyond the 3D to experience the miracles that can easily be experienced by believing. For believing is seeing, and not the other way around in my humble experience! What a beautiful human being this Mr. Levine is-- thanks for having him on your podcast.
OK, I know this isn't the most important thing shared in this video, but can you IMAGINE having Albert Einstein save your mother's life when you were in the womb? Man! The stuff of legends!!
Wonderful talk between two wonderful people who both have the courage to be authentic with their deepest feelings. Peter is certainly one of the great healers of our time and his warmth and wisdom is a blessing in this traumatized world.
Thank you for all of the learning I experienced today ❤ I was deeply touched by your wisdom, both of you! I was guided by some higher power to watch this podcast entirely and a few times I greatly felt my tail bone anchoring itself to one exceptional memory of feeling loved and safe. I could feel my wounds starting to heal finally. Thank you so much for teaching us how to heal ❤
Dan has come a long way. I’ve learned to accept that tho we’re both journalists, we,re as different as day & night. He’s still growing and evolving as I hope so am I, so are we all!
Oh my goodness is it just me or can everyone see Peter Levine as a Junior and a senior side by side😂… Can’t believe two different individuals look so alike but in a different generation 🫢
What a lovely man!! I relate to the wounded healer archetype, but, not only for ourselves, but everyone around us and if we want to help others, releasing our own traumas is a must!! Luckily, I knew very early on through amazing therapists and healers how important working on the body was, especially as I went into freeze and disassociating as an abused kid from a dysfunctional and damaged family. Peter and Bessel are two of my hero’s 🙏
Thank you both Dan and Peter. I have done lots of healing in my life because my childhood was filled with trauma on a daily basis. I have worked hard to get to where I am now in my healing process. However I still have this habit of leaving my body. I did the exercise with you did at the beginning of this conversation and I actually fell right into my body sensation. Btw Peter. I only have 2 pics of childhood self. I look at the one where I am about 4 and I say when I can look at that pic and know it is me. Then I will know I have healed my wounds. I'm so much closer now. She is no longer a stranger to me. I can feel we are growing closer and closer the more I heal. Again, thank you. I look forward to reading your book Peter.❤
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
This was so moving. I thought my childhood was dominated by trauma but he helped me remember the moments or love I had. The last part of the conversation on death had me in tears.
This man is so sweet and caring. Pausing the fight flight and self soothing to peace and calm and safe is key. I do breath work with tapping to unfreeze and slow down for an anx episode.Self-talk with tapping breathing . Then ultimately clear the limiting belief. Self hypnosis too. Bless you. ❤❤❤
I have follow him for years and his books and For Dr. Levine writing his new book and sharing and being honest about his own trauma gives me great deal more respect for him than I had.. It opens his heart and you could feel the closure before and that makes him for me more relatable.
Thank you!my son still can remember when he was in my belly...he first told me about when he was around 2.5...now he is 16...still on my way of working on my story with the hope to give my health self to my son.but definitely he has an intense time in my belly....thank you!
Great episode, thank you! Would love to come on your show and talk about _Cinesomatics_ . It uses video and movement to reveal the unconscious stories, mythologies, archetypes, and shadow material that runs a person through their body, and they get to see all of that in their own body on video. There is nothing else like it. It helps heal anxiety, financial issues, intimacy and relationships, shadow, narcissism, ego, disease, trauma, you name it. How you do one thing is how you do anything, and changing the way someone moves in the body changes the results they get in life.
Mr. Levine is the epitome of wounded healer, the worst thing happened to him as a boy that could happen. And he has helped multitudes, including me. It was his special voice, decades ago, I was able to hear, and it changed my life.
Thank you for sharing this video! I am so grateful to Dr. Levine! Acting like toddlers or small children is fixing us, and from my perspective, children are way more enlightened than we think, and this is the proof that these weird exercises work! We all knew it internally as babies. Let's cherish the children and their knowledge! ❤
@Peter Levine had made a difference in my life and I continue to share his "waking the tiger" technique. Thank you, Peter, for your journey and your expertise and faith in your journey.
Such wonderful information. Not to feel crazy when in need asking my family to kind me in the right direction. Many times they are the departed. That connection is intriguing. Yes being open is key Ty gentleman
Dan, you have no idea how meaningful this interview has been to me and the counselling work that I do. Thank you Dan for putting this together. Thank you Peter for being so brave and kind to share this very personal journey.
Thank you! This has been tremendous in helping me heal my own trauma and I've even integrated Peter's work into my teaching of yoga to help students who have struggled with trauma. So much gratitude for the way your willingness to share has transformed the lives of so many. (all free videos for any of your viewers, inspired by Peter's somatic work)
Wow, wow, wow. Thank you Peter for sharing so authenticly. Remain curious. I take you with me. I had an out of body experience when I was 17. The being who met with me as I was choosing life over death, what the being said came true. I am now 65. I had 30 years of nursing career and especially in the cancer hospital I had a handful of patients who experienced a near death experience or and after life experience, even a man's father coming back to tell his son that everything was going to be okay as the son was living through stage 4 terminal disease. So little we know. Thank you for sharing what you know
Dans interviewing skills are excellent in leading the audience with questions and suggestions to understand what the Doctor is explaining and demonstrating. The mind and body are amazing. ❤😊
Insights in no particular order: 1) Peter is one of the most amazing humans alive today and I am so fortunate for his life and work. The sharing of his childhood trauma at the hands of the criminal underworld is shockingly tragic, and yet his transmutation of that energy into Bodhisattvic help for the world is shockingly positive in wonderfully disproportionate measure (for the good)! 2) meditation is only mental until stability is achieved at which point bodily Visualization (Many times with the seeds syllables) is employed as the Higher tantras. I believe that the “west” has inherited a toxic judeo-Christian shadow that the body is “wrong,” “fallen,” “to be disregarded,” etc. This is not present in certain traditions, as evidenced by their acceptance of sexuality, for example (Nor is any of this a strict Dichotomy, West vs East, etc.). 4) It’s well understand in certain eastern esoteric traditions that what is required for a connection beyond the body is an actual physical karmic connection whilst embodied: that criteria was fulfilled between Peter and Einstein. Though not the case here, the same connection is required between master and disciple for instruction in the inner realms, through the gate of death etc. 5) At this point in human evolution, the “scientific“ dismissal of internal states of being and spiritual experiences, etc., is shameful, archaic, and not even on par with exhaustive peer reviewed studies around, for example, near death experiences, meditation, and altered states of being. Peter’s Level of insight that these experiences of imagined or very real things should be honored in children, and implicitly All, is spot on (which one would hope is common sense, yet alas look at our societal dismissals of inner subjective experiences). 6) Peter speaks of psychedelics as though he does not have experience in doing them, respectfully. There is nonlinear, trans-mental (pre annd post), information to be gained from the plants as shamanic cultures have always known. While I do understand the point that it is not necessary to ingest psychedelics to become embodied “past” trauma, the successfully integrated psychedelic experience does have information for the recipient which, but for that experience, might not be encountered via traditional channels through the waking state. How else would I have come to know that I was a toxically anger consumed Native American called the “Skull Crusher,” in a prior life (You can call me a fool, I will remain unconvinced of it)? 7) beggars banquet is a whole vibe indicative of 70s Berkeley I’m from (and live) the Bay Area and this really resonates with me. You can still go over to San Francisco to the Hayes St.Grill where the owner of the Beggars banquet, Patricia Unterman still rules the helm (as of 2018, not sure now). She’s still makin them rich soups at home. I rant, I rave, I’m inspired, I love! ❤️
Listening again I’m glad this podcast popped up again for me . Such a kind generous man is Peter A Levine with goodness to share I will try the deep gut sound trama relieving sound ..
I always find the best personalities in n people with these panick attacks ! They are the best types to deal with. Most honest, most talented, greatest people and personalities to be real friends and most down to earth, most loyal, most curious and interesting types !!!
Unbraise yourself really led me to many deeply held traumas. Your video has helped my body relax more than anything Ive read or spoke about thankyou peter ❤️🙏
We’re in heaven now. The objective here is to recognize it. ❤ Have you ever looked around? Flowers, incredible insects, animals, plants, trees, stars, moons, planets, suns, billions of interesting people, both wonderful, and to recognize the beautiful we have the horrifying too, mountains, forests, deserts, oceans, streams, rivers, grass, butterflies, rainbows, trees, delicious foods and sensory experiences, how about orgasms!! 😃😍 We have love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, generosity, tenderness. This place is amazing I think. 😊
I’d love to meet before! Am trying to find an English speaking Somatic Experience therapist here in Israel, preferably Jerusalem. But the ultimate would be to work with you, directly! The 10% people have my email & phone…& may remember me as I also worked as a member of the White House Press Corps for 22+ years….
Its AMAZING when I do the Vuuu, I allow my lips to vibrate and I'm exhaling....it seems to give even MORE POWER to the somatic intensity and intention! MUCH THANKS, for the PEACEFUL feeling it gave me! 1'st time! I definitely will keep using this!😊❤ Exceptional video full of useful information!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
The last few minutes of the talk really hit me after he showed the photo of himself as a toddler. Mr Levine was quite emotional of how he wants that "child" to be with him when he transcend this world. I have the same notion myself and can relate.
Thanks so much for this. The vuuu is making me cry! Can't stop! Long covid for 2 years, been improving but it feels like it's taking me back to an awful trauma during lockdown when my special needs child had a bad accident and we needed to go to hospital. Was particularly bad due to all the restrictions. I don't usually get upset so this is strange. Thanks for this video.
Amazing content. I am autistic, have adhd, alexithymia and Ehlers Danlos..... in addition to life long trauma. No one seems to "want to" give you tools to work with to process a lot of this stuff. My body and mind are connected. To work on one without the other is so frustrating. This is the info I have been looking for to give me that extra help to help myself. God knows doctors seem to feel their ways are the ONLY ways to heal and if you fail to do so under their care, you are characterized as difficult and not willing to help yourself. Thank you for sharing this information. This is extremely helpful.
I watched and cared for my mother who died with a long and traumatic illness which was heartbreaking. Then similar happened with my father. For years I cared for them. Then my sister was suddenly diagnosed with esophageal cancer and went through a grueling treatment process from which she is wonderfully cured but maybe these are the reasons for my constant worrying of dying a traumatic death from cancer. So I need to try dr levines methods and I will read his book.
Meditation practice has many more modalities than just observing one's thoughts. Sensorium type meditation focuses on one's attention in the sensations of the body. It's a ver grounding and healing practice that dislodge unconscious patterns, discomforts and trauma out of the body. During my practice I usually do a "body scan" paying attention without judgment and deeply feeling all that arises, without restrain. It's amazing what bubbles up. I also do this practice during emersive walks in nature. It has helped and healed me more than any talk therapy has ever done. We, as individuals and as society, became disconnected from the feelings emerging from our bodies. We drink them away, we try to find all sorts of scape from feeling any discomfort, by in doing so we also shutdown the healing. The healing is in the feeling. 🙏🤗
Omg this was an amazing interview. I stay in flight and flight. I have shut down and I have shut down. This is soooo helpful. Thank you sooo very much for this interview. I was given so many notes to work with.
This information is very valuable to help those of us dealing with anxiety, stress, trauma or physical pain. Thank you Peter for your wonderful work to help humanity. 💐
Such a great and wonderful and helpful show!! Both the interviewer and interviewee. Your questions, being real and vulnerable in clarifying and also restating... and Steven Levine, just a lovely and beautiful human who is and has been helping the planet for years. It is a continual unfolding process of healing & transforming trauma, understanding and hopefully breaking the cycle of hurting each other.... and replacing with helping each other instead. So simple. and the planet is so much smaller these days. 🙏💕🌏
Thank you for sharing!
It's Peter Levine.
I had a break through with just the two breaths of a psyc breakdown in 1997 was suicidal total personality break should've been hospitalized~ However sine of the experiences of the run away completely flight from my current life created many experiences that with my own recovering alone at home isolated except for very few visits with family kids, g-kids friend or 2 in phone & these connections on social media with Peter & a few
Others who really know about healing COMPLEX LIFE LONG UNHEALED TRAUMA FROM WOMB TO BIRTH THROUGH UNTIL BEGAN SOBRIETY IN 1986~ GOOD RECOVERY UNTIL PSCH BREAKDOWN IN 1996 ~ 1997
HOW IT CAME OUT HERE NOW IN 2024 MAY 25TH ON internet with Peter was the 2 breaths
While on my flight from my triggered abusive e life on 1997 I ran to childhood homes to SF Bay Area~
The 1st house was age 1 to 6 yrs.
My hand prints are in the driveway cemetery. While visiting the house I saw the hand prints~ my entire being temem ered putting my little girl hand in the wet Venecia with my father. It was dated. I suddenly felt that I am REAL. I DID live here as a child. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED FREAKY DID HAIRBALL TO YOU A REAL CHILD HERE. THE FINDING OF MY HAND PRINTS IN THE CEMENT DRIVEWAY FROM AGE 4YR OLD BEGAN THE VERY LONG JOURNEY OF REMEMBERING MUCH IN MY HEAD BRAIN.
HOWEVER
THE HUMAN HEART IS THE REAL BOSS OF THE DATA MEMORY BANKS OF THE BRAIN IN OUR HEADS. THE MIND OF THE BEST IS CONNECTED TO THE SACRED SOUL . I BELIEVE THE VEGAS NERVE IS ALSO THE COORDINAT I R BETWEEN ALL THE THE HEAD BRAIN & MIND OF THE HEART& SEAT OF THE SOUL CONNECTING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BODY. AN INFORMATION DESIGN CATALYST FOR THE MIRACULOUSLY CREATED HUMAN BEING BODY AS A WHOLE THEY WORK TOGETHER. I LEARNED ABOUT BODY MEMORY IN THE PAST DECADE FROM WORKING ALONE WITH ONE EMOTIONALLY & INTELLECTUALLY HIGHLY INTELLIGENT ADULT DAUGHTER & ONE CLOSER GIRL FRIEND~ SO AT MY 5TH DECADE OF LIVE 25 YRS INTO RECOVERY OF MY TRUE WHOLE SELF~
I BEGAN TO SLOWLY IGNORE THE FEROCIOUS EGO FILLED WITH FEAR LEARNED TO CREATE AN OBSERVER SELF DETATCHING MORE & MORE FROM JUDGEMENT OF EMOTION & THOUGHT ALLOWING THEN TO FLOW WITHOUT ANCHORING IN ATTATCHMENT TO THE JUDGEMENT THE LABELS OF GOD BAD RIGHT WRONG AND AT4 YRS OF AGE I'M NOW FINDING A MORE COMPLETE WHOLE HEALING OF RECOVERY OF THE REAL ME.
THE LONG JOURNEY FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART IS MOVING EVER SO CAREFULLY THROUGH THE TRAUMA MEMORIES THE BODY MEMORIES WHICH ARE SO UNCONSCIOUSLY SNCHORED
I was curious how many would correct the share. Ask your "self" who or what needs to correct or (be right)? Then, why?
@jeffthomas905 what are you talking about? Who needs to be right? Is about Dr. Levine's name
I would like to share some of the somatic exercises I do that help me feel more in my body and more connected and that have so miraculously enhanced my trauma therapy.
1. Stroke my arms up and down for a few moments.
2. Put one hand on my forehead and the other on my neck for a few seconds.
3. Softly massaging the point below my nose for a few seconds.
4. Rubbing my hands together until I feel some warmth and putting them onto my eyes or cheeks or jaw.
5. Tapping my whole body from feet to head.
As I am suffering from trauma based anxiety I also do some exercises to find security in the present moment. For example:
1. Looking around in the room I am in and curiously noticing everything that's there.
2. Concentrating on the sensation of whatever surface my body is sitting or laying on.
3. Moving my spine like it was a water plant and thereby really feeling my spine
Besides this and talk therapy I took in all information I could get about the polyvagal theory and about protection strategies that out brain develops unconsciously to protect us from further pain or even from reality. I also do guided TRE (trauma release exercise) on a weekly basis to further understand and regulate my nervous system. Furthermore I journal a lot and I thought back to what I loved when I was young and started doing that again.
This is what really helps me - I hope this can be of any help or inspiration.
Lots of love ❤
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this info!
I'm gonna screen shot this and try these thank u I'm always lookn for something be it education to learn more about it and meditations
He is giving listeners a SAMPLE of Somatic Therapy rather than just answering a list of questions by the interviewer. Love his work! 😌
Yes!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
@@ToddBoehly0147 Thank you for asking! As a licensed mental health counselor, I'm always seeking to learn new ideas for working w/ patients, so I feel good learning and studying others' ideas. I'm originally from from Atlanta Georgia and moved to New Mexico.
I didn't want to be born.
I now where I come from.
Trauma, 0 to 12 year.
I am now 66 years.
I working on it.
And my englisch is not very good . I'am from the netherlands. So now I learning every day. Thank you for this.😊❤
May you feel love and acceptance from your creator, God. ❤
You're doing GREAT so far.
So many humans feel like you. You’re probably not from earth.
Just understand that your feelings are valid, but you can realize that just have fun and everything else will fall into place. It’s so not complicated.
May the Universe comfort you and hold your hand in your journey
I completely can understand! Wellness to you ❤
Dr Levine: You’ve done so much for making this world a better place and no doubt you will be remembered. I hope we still have many years of your wisdom.
I only can absolutely subscribe that ! 👍💞
The voo breath before eating food. Before breakfast, lunch and dinner to stimulate your digestion ❤
What an incredible, humble, generous, authentic, inspiration Peter is. We’re blessed to have him on this earth.
Wow i just done the voo breathing exercise for the first time it has made me feel so calm, almost brought me to tears, thank you 💓
Peter is a blessing to the world!
He is!!!
Loosen up Dan! You have the Father of Somatic Experiencing on your podcast, and your first response to his first exercise was "Won't people think that's weird?" Eh?! Anyone who is experiencing the fallout from trauma will try ANYTHING if it might make them feel better (in my opinion/experience) - so breathing out saying "Voooooooo" is NOT "weird". The only thing that seemed weird to me was that this was your first response, LOL!
Thank you for inviting Peter on the show. Hes truly a beacon of light and hope ❤
I am working on forgiveness: for others who caused me trauma, and myself for taking on shame and guilt for the trauma. Loving oneself unconditionally is key for me.
Love this!
❤❤
Yes- that is true healing at the root level 💕
Forgiveness should not be considered as a goalbut rather it should arrive as s a result of grieving
@@markspivak4310this is a very interesting thought, how did you learn this?
Can there be more like this man? God do we need more ! Specially Good Men ❤
Yes absolutely 💯 🙌 very much so.
As a man in trauma recovery-Thank you for you for your comment 🙏🏻
Dr Gabo mate
Now I can’t stop voooooooing. Really relaxing feeling. This is from a health anxiety customer ❤️. Good message dr Levine
Years of talk therapy with little benefit, left that therapist for a psychologist who used hypnotherapy, EMDR, and IFS (Internal family systems) and, wow, rapid progress, soò grateful ❤. Talk therapy was the primer, the soil in which EMDR, IFS, and hypno, and breathing to stimulate the vagus nerve were seeded, and I blossomed. Now i'll add the Vu to the breathing. Thank you, dr Levine, for your work and dedication ❤
Thanks for sharing!
So hard to find someone good…where are you?
I am being treated by a wonderful somatic therapist that has created a safe and trusting environment to work through and unearth deep seated trauma as I am also trying to heal from chronic illness. Dr Peter Levine’s and Dr Gabor Mate’s work has been life transforming for me and I owe them a deep level of gratitude for honing a newfound compassion for my painful history of experiences. I wish everyone that could use it an effective and deeply fulfilling healing journey on your personal yet meaningful path 🙏♥️
Thanks for sharing!
May I ask what state your therapist is ? I need a good source for my son
Dr. Gabor Mate is Amazing!!!
The humming really works! I used to think it was weird when my son did it until i finally tried it. I do it when im feeling stressed. It only takes a few times until i feel better!
100% agreed. Regulation of the nervous system is paramount and the crux of the entire issue. If you can find methods to restore regulation, and get the brain to accept parasympathetic activation/ability to relax/release etc... amazing things are possible. The difficulty is convincing the brain that it is indeed safe to reactivate this parasympathetic response... because in order to do that..the brain has to register that it is safe enough to change states. This is why some people have negative responses to certain types of trauma interventions..because the nervous system is rejecting that change. This also explains why certain people do breathwork and feel zero change...or may even feel more anxiety..etc. All individuals that I have worked with that either have physical issues or trauma related issues have a phenomenal disconnect between brain and body.. even at a muscular level. This can most certainly be reprogrammed...but the disconnect is the reflection of the nervous system. The more disconnected.. the more intense the dysregulation and symptoms. Hope this helps anyone who is watched this and has not found the answers they are looking for.
Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting. I suppose that's true for me
This is very interesting. When there is such a disconnection, how do you get the nervous system to accept the change?
This is so true!
Are you able to help us...? 😉
This is what I deal with from time to time. There's just no getting out of the tailspin @@james737
I love the 'voo' chant. When I do it, I feel a vibration inside the middle of my belly.
Peter Levin, such a pure loving healing soul, you are doing your tikun olam for sure❤
only trauma brain would think that’s weird..No one who is watching Dr. Levine would thinks it’s weirds because to be following him you’ve been seeking help and seeking learning about trauma and how to heal it on purpose…not just randomly coming across him…
True.
Facts
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Peter Levine is so generous to share his knowledge and expertise with all of us! Thank you 🙏
It's completely weird if you're doing this in public. Nobody knows what you're doing and will think it's a mental disorder or a panic attack of the sorts. Even further, it's not practical in a real-world scenario. E.G. if I'm about to do a presentation and need to calm myself, there is no way I can do this exercise in front of the crowd, then proceed with my presentation.
#2 E.G. if someone is robbing me, I can't do breathwork during the robbery and overcome my fear.
But yeah, in your shower it's not weird at all.
The vagus nerve is so incredible. It’s also super responsible for our swallow function which we need to live ! There is just so much neat stuff to connect our ability to heal and to live
This breath has helped heal my past Gastroperios, IBS Abaxiety dizziness constipation, and dizziness. This and meditation and brain training with tapping.Thank you for telling people this because if they would just get into a habit of this it could heal them too! Your body is hoping and waiting for you to tell it that it is safe and this is the bet way. If you yawn or pass gas, you'll know you are doing it right! xo Ava
Thanks for sharing!
Wow, an awesome new door opens for my journey discovering self. 🎉
Awesome
Thank you for sharing that
I have chronic nausea , cramps bloating
All are worse since my own trauma then my fathers neglect in Aged Care , his trauma affected me more than my own .....
I need to let go
With tears , bless you
Great. Hope it gets rid of my anxiety dizziness symptom.
I have a lot of childhood trauma that a lot of people all around the world have experienced. For example, abuse neglect abandonment. It wasn’t until I lost my partner in front of me in tragic circumstances that I realised that the Trauma and shock that I experienced has affected my body to the point where for a period of time of a about a year I could barely walk. My GP doesn’t understand that it’s all connected and kept sending me for scans with nothing coming back. It wasn’t until I started getting acupuncture, and doing Meditation to calm my nervous system that the chronic pain that I’ve had for four years has begun to subside. This is a brilliant interview and the world needs to be educated on how to severe trauma even from childhood can affect you as an adult physically.. I can’t believe that CPTSD or complex Trauma is not in the DSM five. I’m sure a lot of people can relate to this.
DSM is the devils 😈 book. Full of addicted poisoned medications that make money. This won't make money for them so you won't find it in the DSM sadly
I didn't know that I've lived in my head and disembodied for decades, until I worked with a somatic experiencing therapist. That was transformative for me and helped me recover from chronic pain and befriend my body.
The neuroscientist, Lisa Feldman Barrett says that the body doesn't keep the score. She says the brain keeps the score, the body is the scorecard. I'd love to see you interview her. It would be a fascinating juxtaposition to this interview with Peter Levine.
Noted! And thank you for sharing!
I don't think there is a real disagreement. Both Peter Levine and Bessel Van Der Kolk have clarified that when they say that trauma is stuck in the body, they mean that it's stored as a procedural memory in the brain so that the whole body keeps repeating the same reaction over and over again automatically.
It didn't help me at all. I think it's a scam.
@@cecilecavallaro4924 it may be placebo effect (but who cares if it works) but he also said for many people it will take more than trying it a time or two, especially if you've had deep trauma and carried it for a long time. If you are very disconnected from your body, it takes a lot of work and perhaps help from others to even notice a change in sensation. Hope this helps.
@@cecilecavallaro4924keep searching. There are many methods, may you find relief.
Thank you Peter for everything what you do. You are saving lives.
Thanks ❤
Thank you!
Peter is such a beautiful human being
He is!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
This is so incredibly important. I can say from my own experience that working with my nervous system has enhanced my talk therapy in a stunning kind of way. I am processing so much trauma in a few months, I never thought this was possible. I can do that because I learned how to regulate my nervous system and find security in the moment as well as feeling true compassion for myself and therefore being able to watch my inner critic and consciously deciding to stop beating myself up. It's truly like a miracle. ❤ Thank you from my heart, dear Peter Levine and Stephen Porges for your most highly valued work.
Thanks for sharing!
"May you stand tall and walk in beauty"
Aho!
You too my dear Peter Levine
He's the best!
Aho
Incredible video! Thank you Dan and Peter 👏🏼. And, thank you Peter for being so vulnerable and sharing your story and your truth. So powerful.
Peter Levine is such a wise person, teacher and psychotherapist. His understanding of the human suffering gives us valuable strategies to help us and clients to heal and feel alive.
I’ve heard it explained it before like, the stuckness of the trauma is not a cerebral, intellectual, cognitive thing - it’s not a puzzle or problem that Mind can solve (e.g. talk therapy). Insight alone might not be impactful. It lives in the body, and many of us are so disconnected, dissociated & almost ignoring or compartmentalizing what’s happening in our bodies. We may not have access to it unless we go and meet it there, which starts with attending, noticing, paying attention. I’ve heard Peter say that the physiological stress response needs to be able to be completed, because it’s sort of stuck frozen from the original experiences, mid-reaction, when it couldn’t resolve.
Dear jo5546...SUCH A BEAUTIFUL TAKE AWAY ❤ Thanks for speaking such wisdom ❤😊
I feel stuck. Not sure how to explain it but I do know I'm not myself at the moment. Not sure why or what is going on. I'm not even thinking normally. Not bad thinking just not thinking if that makes since. I've been working on myself but not sure why I'm not feeling better or why I feel the way I'am.
@debrakarr I also have more work to do. I know I need to try to find a good therapist and resume keep on keeping on! Best wishes and much healing to you!🌷
While "vooing", I imagined how a soft, kind, safe energy is caressing and calming down my whole nervous system. 🎉
That made me cry when i thot does my dad know i cared so much for him.. especially in his 12 yr dementia journey.. and dying in my presence. He still gives me super specific signs from across the veil which is magnificently validating that awareness does indeed continue crossing realms. Grief is fascinating. Trauma is such a gift! Never said that before!
Processing and comprehending the death of a loved one is the last gift they give to us.
Saying „I’m real“ caused a strong tingle in the core of my being.
Thank you both. Such gentle men with such wisdom 🇬🇧
Crazy enough , I had a deep epiphany with some childhood trauma listening to this today .
Thank you both for putting this important information. ❤
Our pleasure!
Very helpful. Thank you. Re scientists talking about their metaphysical experiences: The Jung interviews from 1957-59 at the end of his life on YT now show him talking about his - so that's another example
Sounds & tones are huge for our bodies. Wind chimes. Sound baths...etc etc Healing.
Yes!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
Peter Levine.....what a beautiful human being! Thank you so much for so for having the courage to tell us your personal stories. I loved the Einstein one. Your books have helped me in my healing journey. Thanx also for encouraging us to tell our stories too. I love you.
I don’t believe any child gets out of childhood without trauma. Bullies prey on smaller, weaker creatures. Children are the perfect target for the anger of traumatized adults. We all need this.
Any “Bad” Experience doesn’t necessarily have to be traumatizing. If the kid has a regulated nervous system then it’s likely to be able to process the stress caused by an event and live on without storing it.
If the caretakers are traumatized however it is very likely that they will pass it on to their children as the child will copy the NS of the people it spends the most time with in the first 3yrs.
The birth itself could be a trauma. Every baby cries at that moment.
truth
@moritji6090 truama occurs when that bad experience happens to you and nobody is around to make you feel safe and supported
@@louisebotos7321 True. My mother abused me when my dad was at work so he never saw the full brunt of it, and most adults turned a blind eye to it when I was growing up.
Yay! Peter Levine! I love this guy! 😊
Yes!
Are the two of you related? When I saw the video thumbnail, I thought it was a younger and older version of the same man. I was surprised to learn that is not the case.
On to a relevant portion of this comment, the fact you are both helping the world to heal themselves is such a beautiful gift and extremely great use of your time and talents. Thank you both!
The longer I watch the more relaxed feeling comes over me. Very strong message. Thank you both ❤
In 2020 I came across NICABM's training about mastering the treatment of trauma. It was here that I found out about treating trauma from the bottom up (i.e. through the body)...Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Dr. Pat Ogden's work), EMDR, and other somatic modalities changed how I understood my own experiences as well as those of others. I really appreciate this interview! Your willingness to be vulnerable and try out some techniques is awesome! and great questions! Thanks so much for this.
Thanks for sharing!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
Somatic Experiencing changed my life, both personally and professionally. Thank you Peter, what a gift to be able to be so gentle and agile in therapy... not enough words....
Your work is reaching far and wide. Gratitude from Namibia...
Thank you for sharing!
What a lovely man, and so wise.
It's unfortunate that the interviewer tried to intellectualize everything that Mr. Levine was sharing from a depth of presence & experience that far surpassed the thinking mind. I was SO touched & helped by this presentation. The boat story encompassing Einstein's appearance was awesome. Everything Mr. Levine shared was totally believable & people who are in "ascension mode" get this! I've had the same experience of people's doubt drowning out perfectly valid attempts to be helpful-- I can think of some linked to teaching EFT methods. FAR time to recognize that we're moving beyond the 3D to experience the miracles that can easily be experienced by believing. For believing is seeing, and not the other way around in my humble experience! What a beautiful human being this Mr. Levine is-- thanks for having him on your podcast.
The vulnerability here is incredible ❤
OK, I know this isn't the most important thing shared in this video, but can you IMAGINE having Albert Einstein save your mother's life when you were in the womb? Man! The stuff of legends!!
57:29
He is!
Sweet huh...love it , too....in the Light
Add some of Einstein's theories on time ...and he really could have visited Peter.
Incredible… and I really believe he was communing with Einstein in the spirit.
Wonderful talk between two wonderful people who both have the courage to be authentic with their deepest feelings. Peter is certainly one of the great healers of our time and his warmth and wisdom is a blessing in this traumatized world.
Thank you for all of the learning I experienced today ❤ I was deeply touched by your wisdom, both of you! I was guided by some higher power to watch this podcast entirely and a few times I greatly felt my tail bone anchoring itself to one exceptional memory of feeling loved and safe. I could feel my wounds starting to heal finally. Thank you so much for teaching us how to heal ❤
Amazing, a professional is speaking exactly what I’m feeling!! THANK YOU.
You are so welcome!
Dan has come a long way. I’ve learned to accept that tho we’re both journalists, we,re as different as day & night. He’s still growing and evolving as I hope so am I, so are we all!
Yes, yes, yes!
I love Peter Levine’s work as much as his amazing and beautiful heart. Thank you both for sharing this amazing and life-changing dialogue. ❤
Couldn't agree more!
Oh my goodness is it just me or can everyone see Peter Levine as a Junior and a senior side by side😂… Can’t believe two different individuals look so alike but in a different generation 🫢
Yes, this was my very first thought when I saw the thumbnail! Lol
That was my first thought! Actually, I thought it was his father for a second
@yasminkausar5186 I thought that and wondered if they were father and son:)
😂
Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory aligns with this and explains the physiology an science behind this process. He'd be an amazing guest too!
Noted!
What a lovely man!! I relate to the wounded healer archetype, but, not only for ourselves, but everyone around us and if we want to help others, releasing our own traumas is a must!! Luckily, I knew very early on through amazing therapists and healers how important working on the body was, especially as I went into freeze and disassociating as an abused kid from a dysfunctional and damaged family. Peter and Bessel are two of my hero’s 🙏
Thank you both Dan and Peter.
I have done lots of healing in my life because my childhood was filled with trauma on a daily basis. I have worked hard to get to where I am now in my healing process. However I still have this habit of leaving my body.
I did the exercise with you did at the beginning of this conversation and I actually fell right into my body sensation.
Btw Peter. I only have 2 pics of childhood self. I look at the one where I am about 4 and I say when I can look at that pic and know it is me. Then I will know I have healed my wounds. I'm so much closer now. She is no longer a stranger to me. I can feel we are growing closer and closer the more I heal.
Again, thank you. I look forward to reading your book Peter.❤
Thank you!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
I listened to this podcast and got shivers when Mr. Levine said “Walk In Beauty” because that’s how I sign off on my e-mail.
This was so moving. I thought my childhood was dominated by trauma but he helped me remember the moments or love I had. The last part of the conversation on death had me in tears.
This man is so sweet and caring. Pausing the fight flight and self soothing to peace and calm and safe is key. I do breath work with tapping to unfreeze and slow down for an anx episode.Self-talk with tapping breathing . Then ultimately clear the limiting belief. Self hypnosis too. Bless you. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for these conversations Dan! Love Peter Levine
Thank you!
I lost my son to suicide in 2021 pending a divorce.
Yoga has saved me.
😢I’m so sorry
Hang in there 🫶 Keep practicing your yoga 🧘🏽
Thank you Dan and thank you Dr Levine. For sure we all will take part of this conversation in our lives. Thank you very much!
Dan, you have a wonderful, deep, and resonant voice! I read your book, and it was great to hear and see you in person!
Thanks for listening!
I have follow him for years and his books and For Dr. Levine writing his new book and sharing and being honest about his own trauma gives me great deal more respect for him than I had.. It opens his heart and you could feel the closure before and that makes him for me more relatable.
Thank you!my son still can remember when he was in my belly...he first told me about when he was around 2.5...now he is 16...still on my way of working on my story with the hope to give my health self to my son.but definitely he has an intense time in my belly....thank you!
Great episode, thank you! Would love to come on your show and talk about _Cinesomatics_ . It uses video and movement to reveal the unconscious stories, mythologies, archetypes, and shadow material that runs a person through their body, and they get to see all of that in their own body on video. There is nothing else like it. It helps heal anxiety, financial issues, intimacy and relationships, shadow, narcissism, ego, disease, trauma, you name it. How you do one thing is how you do anything, and changing the way someone moves in the body changes the results they get in life.
Mr. Levine is the epitome of wounded healer, the worst thing happened to him as a boy that could happen. And he has helped multitudes, including me. It was his special voice, decades ago, I was able to hear, and it changed my life.
Thank you for sharing this video! I am so grateful to Dr. Levine! Acting like toddlers or small children is fixing us, and from my perspective, children are way more enlightened than we think, and this is the proof that these weird exercises work! We all knew it internally as babies. Let's cherish the children and their knowledge! ❤
Wonderful!
Thank you it works it was a giggle watching how uncomfortable it made the host and how resistant he was to doing this exercise
I love resistance. It means that’s the place to work on
@Peter Levine had made a difference in my life and I continue to share his "waking the tiger" technique. Thank you, Peter, for your journey and your expertise and faith in your journey.
Thanks for sharing!
Much gratitude for Dr. Levine, and now, also for Mr. Harris. I've also felt a downpour of warmth and soothness. Thank you both so much for this!
Thank you!
We love you, DAN! You definitely haven't lost your mind!❤
Thank you!
Such wonderful information.
Not to feel crazy when in need asking my family to kind me in the right direction. Many times they are the departed. That connection is intriguing. Yes being open is key
Ty gentleman
Thanks for watching!
Dan, you have no idea how meaningful this interview has been to me and the counselling work that I do. Thank you Dan for putting this together. Thank you Peter for being so brave and kind to share this very personal journey.
We're so glad!
Thank you! This has been tremendous in helping me heal my own trauma and I've even integrated Peter's work into my teaching of yoga to help students who have struggled with trauma. So much gratitude for the way your willingness to share has transformed the lives of so many. (all free videos for any of your viewers, inspired by Peter's somatic work)
Wow, wow, wow. Thank you Peter for sharing so authenticly. Remain curious. I take you with me. I had an out of body experience when I was 17. The being who met with me as I was choosing life over death, what the being said came true. I am now 65. I had 30 years of nursing career and especially in the cancer hospital I had a handful of patients who experienced a near death experience or and after life experience, even a man's father coming back to tell his son that everything was going to be okay as the son was living through stage 4 terminal disease. So little we know. Thank you for sharing what you know
Dans interviewing skills are excellent in leading the audience with questions and suggestions to understand what the Doctor is explaining and demonstrating. The mind and body are amazing. ❤😊
Yes!
Insights in no particular order:
1) Peter is one of the most amazing humans alive today and I am so fortunate for his life and work. The sharing of his childhood trauma at the hands of the criminal underworld is shockingly tragic, and yet his transmutation of that energy into Bodhisattvic help for the world is shockingly positive in wonderfully disproportionate measure (for the good)!
2) meditation is only mental until stability is achieved at which point bodily Visualization (Many times with the seeds syllables) is employed as the Higher tantras. I believe that the “west” has inherited a toxic judeo-Christian shadow that the body is “wrong,” “fallen,” “to be disregarded,” etc. This is not present in certain traditions, as evidenced by their acceptance of sexuality, for example (Nor is any of this a strict Dichotomy, West vs East, etc.).
4) It’s well understand in certain eastern esoteric traditions that what is required for a connection beyond the body is an actual physical karmic connection whilst embodied: that criteria was fulfilled between Peter and Einstein. Though not the case here, the same connection is required between master and disciple for instruction in the inner realms, through the gate of death etc.
5) At this point in human evolution, the “scientific“ dismissal of internal states of being and spiritual experiences, etc., is shameful, archaic, and not even on par with exhaustive peer reviewed studies around, for example, near death experiences, meditation, and altered states of being. Peter’s Level of insight that these experiences of imagined or very real things should be honored in children, and implicitly All, is spot on (which one would hope is common sense, yet alas look at our societal dismissals of inner subjective experiences).
6) Peter speaks of psychedelics as though he does not have experience in doing them, respectfully. There is nonlinear, trans-mental (pre annd post), information to be gained from the plants as shamanic cultures have always known. While I do understand the point that it is not necessary to ingest psychedelics to become embodied “past” trauma, the successfully integrated psychedelic experience does have information for the recipient which, but for that experience, might not be encountered via traditional channels through the waking state. How else would I have come to know that I was a toxically anger consumed Native American called the “Skull Crusher,” in a prior life (You can call me a fool, I will remain unconvinced of it)?
7) beggars banquet is a whole vibe indicative of 70s Berkeley I’m from (and live) the Bay Area and this really resonates with me. You can still go over to San Francisco to the Hayes St.Grill where the owner of the Beggars banquet, Patricia Unterman still rules the helm (as of 2018, not sure now). She’s still makin them rich soups at home.
I rant, I rave, I’m inspired, I love! ❤️
Thanks for sharing!
Listening again I’m glad this podcast popped up again for me . Such a kind generous man is Peter A Levine with goodness to share I will try the deep gut sound trama relieving sound ..
I always find the best personalities in n people with these panick attacks ! They are the best types to deal with. Most honest, most talented, greatest people and personalities to be real friends and most down to earth, most loyal, most curious and interesting types !!!
Yes!
Unbraise yourself really led me to many deeply held traumas. Your video has helped my body relax more than anything Ive read or spoke about thankyou peter ❤️🙏
Could we all be a little more like this beautiful man? Peter is just a wise old soul❤
Peter thank you soooo much for this gift and thank you for the courage to share. Much much LOVE
You have definitely left the world in a better place and I hope we meet in heaven
We’re in heaven now. The objective here is to recognize it. ❤
Have you ever looked around?
Flowers, incredible insects, animals, plants, trees, stars, moons, planets, suns, billions of interesting people, both wonderful, and to recognize the beautiful we have the horrifying too, mountains, forests, deserts, oceans, streams, rivers, grass, butterflies, rainbows, trees, delicious foods and sensory experiences, how about orgasms!! 😃😍
We have love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, generosity, tenderness.
This place is amazing I think. 😊
I’d love to meet before! Am trying to find an English speaking Somatic Experience therapist here in Israel, preferably Jerusalem. But the ultimate would be to work with you, directly! The 10% people have my email & phone…& may remember me as I also worked as a member of the White House Press Corps for 22+ years….
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Me too
Its AMAZING when I do the Vuuu, I allow my lips to vibrate and I'm exhaling....it seems to give even MORE POWER to the somatic intensity and intention! MUCH THANKS, for the PEACEFUL feeling it gave me! 1'st time! I definitely will keep using this!😊❤ Exceptional video full of useful information!
Wonderful!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎 I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Fort Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
This is amazing thanks. I have ptsd and panic attacks
Stay positive! Dan has come a long way with his anxiety and wants other to as well.
Listening to him is healing. I was about to cry a few times. it's his vulnerability and openness I think. Thank you Peter.
The last few minutes of the talk really hit me after he showed the photo of himself as a toddler. Mr Levine was quite emotional of how he wants that "child" to be with him when he transcend this world. I have the same notion myself and can relate.
Thanks for sharing your story.
One of the best enlightening experiences I’ve had in the last year, learning how everything we experience truly forms us.
What a compliment, thanks for watching!
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Thanks so much for this. The vuuu is making me cry! Can't stop! Long covid for 2 years, been improving but it feels like it's taking me back to an awful trauma during lockdown when my special needs child had a bad accident and we needed to go to hospital. Was particularly bad due to all the restrictions. I don't usually get upset so this is strange. Thanks for this video.
Thank you for sharing your journey!
Amazing content. I am autistic, have adhd, alexithymia and Ehlers Danlos..... in addition to life long trauma. No one seems to "want to" give you tools to work with to process a lot of this stuff. My body and mind are connected. To work on one without the other is so frustrating. This is the info I have been looking for to give me that extra help to help myself. God knows doctors seem to feel their ways are the ONLY ways to heal and if you fail to do so under their care, you are characterized as difficult and not willing to help yourself. Thank you for sharing this information. This is extremely helpful.
I watched and cared for my mother who died with a long and traumatic illness which was heartbreaking. Then similar happened with my father. For years I cared for them. Then my sister was suddenly diagnosed with esophageal cancer and went through a grueling treatment process from which she is wonderfully cured but maybe these are the reasons for my constant worrying of dying a traumatic death from cancer. So I need to try dr levines methods and I will read his book.
Indigenous people have done these practices for hundreds of years, so have naturopathic doctors. These techniques work.
Meditation practice has many more modalities than just observing one's thoughts.
Sensorium type meditation focuses on one's attention in the sensations of the body. It's a ver grounding and healing practice that dislodge unconscious patterns, discomforts and trauma out of the body.
During my practice I usually do a "body scan" paying attention without judgment and deeply feeling all that arises, without restrain. It's amazing what bubbles up. I also do this practice during emersive walks in nature. It has helped and healed me more than any talk therapy has ever done.
We, as individuals and as society, became disconnected from the feelings emerging from our bodies. We drink them away, we try to find all sorts of scape from feeling any discomfort, by in doing so we also shutdown the healing. The healing is in the feeling. 🙏🤗
Excellent-- as Dr Alan Watkins says, "We are not Human Doings- we are Human BEINGS" ♥ Awesome video- thank you!
Omg this was an amazing interview. I stay in flight and flight. I have shut down and I have shut down. This is soooo helpful. Thank you sooo very much for this interview. I was given so many notes to work with.
This information is very valuable to help those of us dealing with anxiety, stress, trauma or physical pain. Thank you Peter for your wonderful work to help humanity. 💐
Thanks for watching!