Quotes by Peter A. Levine - Page 1

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
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Hell
Ptsd
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Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.
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Trauma
Does
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However
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The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
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Transform
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When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.
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Reactions
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We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.
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Traumatized
Unaware
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Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.
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Mastery
Transformation
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Heights
Punishing
Soaring
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If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.
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Attention
Frightening
Given
Individual
Resolve
Sensations
Dissolve
Move
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While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
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Nervous
Nervous System
Organisms
Rebound
Stress
Threatening
Accumulate
Began
Studying
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Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics.
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Abuse
Hysteria
Investigation
Unbiased
Sexual
Polarized
Pressing
Scientific
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To my parents, Morris and Helen, I give thanks for the gift of life, the vehicle for the expression of my work, and for your continued full and unequivocal support from both sides of the physical plane.
Peter A. Levine / Author
Both Sides
Morris
Sides
Thanks
Unequivocal
Vehicle
Life Work Your
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I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.
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Compassionate
Contribution
Indebted
Legacy
Philip
Monumental
Profoundly
Reich
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If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. —THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS
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Within You
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Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.
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Sound
Arrest
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Whenever
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Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.
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Experience
Angry
Causes
Frightening
Shameful
Source
Threat
Threatened
Trauma
Entire
Geared
Internal
Organism
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My career began somewhat accidentally. In the 1960s, I started a practice in the fledgling field of mind-body healing. Around that time, it was completely in its infancy. I had been developing a protocol to use body awareness as a tool for stress reduction.
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Developing
Healing
Infancy
Practice
Protocol
Reduction
Stress
Accidentally
Began
Career
Somewhat
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In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the therapist often tries to get the client to feel what they're feeling when they talk about those kinds of things.
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Processing
Psychotherapy
Symptoms
Client
Normally
Relationships
Therapist
Tries
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Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.
Peter A. Levine / Author
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Capacity
Loss
Organs
Pleasure
Symptoms
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Vitality
Cause
Connection
Diminished
Frequently
Sexual
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Performed
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Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.
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Effects
Examining
Guidance
Healing
Identical
Insight
Offers
Powerful
Recovering
Trauma
Wholeness
Basic
Mirror
Provide
Though
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Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
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Adrenaline
Heart
Heart Rate
Increase
Muscles
Rate
Respiration
Source
Tension
Threat
Whole
Away
Basic
Escape
Flooded
Level
Objective
Prepare
System
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I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.
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Uplifting
Becoming
Burned
Morbid
Proven
Sustaining
Transformation
Life Work Experience
Life Work I Am
Asked
Often
Deeply
Depressed
Master
Place
My Life
Question
Subject
Takes
Witnessing
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The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors.
Peter A. Levine / Author
Family
Decision Making
Disease
Effects
Family Life
Interpersonal
Outlook
Pain
Physical Pain
Poor
Range
Real
Self Destructive
Symptoms
Trauma
Addictions
Affect
Behaviors
Take
Devastating
Lead
Habits
Physical
Relationships
Toll
Unresolved
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The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.
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I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.
Peter A. Levine / Author
Dream
Believe
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