http://www.onbeing.org/programs/bessel-van-der-kolk-how-trauma-lodges-in-the-body/ http://www.onbeing.org/programs/bessel-van-der-kolk-how-trau... "One way of

http://www.onbeing.org/programs/bessel-van-der-kolk-how-trauma-lodges-in-the-body/ http://www.onbeing.org/programs/bessel-van-der-kolk-how-trau... "One way of doing it is taking drugs and alcohol, and the other thing is that you can just shut down your emotional awareness of your body. And so a very large number of traumatized people who we see — I’d say the majority of the people we treat at the trauma center and in my practice — have very cut off relationships to their bodies. They may not feel what’s happening in their bodies. They may not register what goes on with them. And so what became very clear is that we needed to help people for them to feel safe feeling the sensations in their bodies, to start having a relationship with the life of their organism, as I like to call it." [Also interesting, but not related: that psychiatrist found that yoga helped reset the connection between mind and body for those who had experienced trauma.]