I have been listening to this Podcast for many months. There is so much there and it is SO deep, but I want to start breaking down parts of it when I have the bandwidth.
Here are some initial notes from this episode (which is part 1 of 2).
When we become disregulated, we became either HYPER (amp up) or HYPO (shift down) aroused.
The shift into various levels of disregulation throughout our day, allows your body to reveal your story to you.
You can learn some important things about your story by noticing WHEN you become disregulated. Some thoughts:
1. What are the kinds of things that disregulate you?
2. Are you HYPER (8, 9 or 10) or HYPO (1, 2, or 3) when this disregulation occurs? Or do you amp up to try and get a response and if it doesn’t work, you slam way down to a hopeless state. Pay close attention to the tendencies of your particular nervous system.
3. Bring curiosity to your disregulated body to say “what may have caused me to get disregulate?”
Why does situation X trigger me?? Because you are remembering something. Your brain is calling something to mind from your past. But it is activating implicit memory. So you don’t have the sensation of recall. That is what a trigger is. Here are some thoughts that:
1. Significant shifts in your affect (a person’s outward expression of emotion) tell you precious information about what is happening in the present or what has happened in the past or possibly both.
2. What movements does your body want to make? These are impulses to movement. If you have a history of trauma, you often won’t listen to your body’s impulses. Let them teach you about the story in your past.
Self-contempt can become a compass for your body.
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