Alyssa Manansala’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

this book is a lot to process, i think im gonna take a break from it

“if you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations - if you trust them to give you accurate information - you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”

“knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way.”

be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…live the questions now. perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer

- rainer maria riike

- be more conscious of combining top down approaches (activate social engagement) with bottom up methods (calm physical tensions in the body)
- be open to non-pharmacological approaches to health

not being fully alive in the present keeps people more firmly imprisoned in the past

if you want to manage your emotions better, your brain gives you two options: regulate from the top down (strengthen medial prefrontal cortex) or bottom up (recalibrate ANS)

being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on, as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past. After trauma the world is experienced with a different nervous system.

before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety

No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talked the emotional brain out of its own reality.