A systems view of biological health

Section 4: Practical exercises

8.5 : Miscellaneous notes 5: Approaches to Healing

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There are many different degrees of dissociation, trauma/PTSD and fragmentation (all of these being more or less similar in behaviour and origin) - it is a spectrum, which (to use the analogy of a bout of flu) can be anything from a dribbly nose up to full blown influenza and pleurisy, whith most people being on the dribbly end of the spectrum.

For relatively small and non-complex stuff (such as being hit by a bus), almost any technique will work. The more complex and entrenched it gets, the less effective are "interventionist&q, heroic, fix-it approaches (and attitudes), and the more likely they are to cause abreactions - i.e. returns of overwhelm. I had many years of abreactions before I realised this little nugget. I personally characterise them by "that must have been a good treatment because I feel like I've been run over by a bus" - time and time again. Alongside the fact that there was clearly no progress being made.

The techniques described here have been gleaned from firstpphase (stabilisation) techniques used in state-of-the-art treatments for extreme trauma, and so tend not to produce abreactions. And if applied with precision also work extremely easily and quickly and painlessly for almost all lower-level cases.

Past a certain level of fragmentation, self-help will not work because the correct kind of external support (probably someone with professional traiing and experience) is needed to supplement the technique. Past another level, further stabilisation techniques PLUS support are needed before anything further is possible by specialist trauma therapists. However, the vasy majority of people reading this will not be anywhere near those levels, and will gain many benefits from giving it a go!