During SBSM I’m noticing bracing patterns specifically in my gut, which I consciously then release. I take dual prokinetics for my bowel to work, and I wondered if this issue could be a result of these bracing patterns. How does bracing relate to dysregulation? Can you have one without the other? A few questions here. Can the issue be the result of bracing patterns? Meaning, digestion problems, can they result from bracing patterns?
Call Tag: self-protection
Sometimes I find myself trying to force things to come up in this work, like feelings and movements. I have preverbal trauma and I know trauma is related to being forced to do things, including sexual trauma. When I try to force things to come up, it feels like I’m violating myself, and I wonder in these instances, if I’m tapping into the energy of my trauma. It feels like I’m playing out both parts, victim and perpetrator, inside myself. Does this make sense? And any advice for working with this?
“Is there anything specific I can do for tightness in my neck that keeps occurring with constriction only on the right side? It occurred a couple of minutes into the kidney practice today, followed by a sense of panic rising. I paused, oriented, shifted attention between my neck and safety in my body.”
Another thing that someone wrote about in terms of this realm of aggression was feeling aggression towards the self, feeling self hatred, self-criticism, just feeling worthless or these unkind feelings towards the self.