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Mind Body PracticesSupporting Healing from Trauma
Linda Scherer, LICSWNew Day Counseling, PLLC (320)309-5381 [email protected]
Crow River Family Services (320)774-3355 [email protected]
Soft belly breathing: Growing neural
connections for relaxation
Feet on the floor to ground and connect to the earth (prevent dizziness)
Permission to open eyes and look at neutral and boring focal point if feeling
unsettled or images come up
Notice how this feels and practice helping the body relax (it may not feel
better at first) Hand on belly or focus on breathing into the belly and
relaxing belly muscles (vagus nerve that goes from the brain to the
stomach and triggers the relaxation response when the belly is soft)
Breath in through the nose to prevent too much oxygen intake and
hyperventilating,
Long inhale will increase energy
Long exhale to relax and reduce energy
What brings me to Mind Body Medicine
Self as expert-seek out experts in field but trust own gut as ultimate knower
of what to accept or reject
Health as Core-Inner Healer-Universal Intelligence-Spiritual Source-Higher
power
Prevention of illness
Care for the whole person in treatment-aimed at whole person growth not
just symptom relief
Aimed at living in alignment or in the flow of life energy
Incidence of trauma in childrenDavid Hong PsyD LP, Basic TF-CBT
40% of American children will have at least one
potentially traumatizing experience by age 18
1 in 8 children under age 17 reported serious
maltreatment by adults within the past year
Not all have PTSD but at any given time more than 8
million American Children suffer from diagnosable
trauma-related psychiatric problems
Types of Trauma
• Child Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional)
• Victim/witness of Violence
• Accidents
• Disasters
• War/Terrorism, Immigration/Refugee
• Medical Traumatic
• Grief
• Human Trafficking
• Historical/Generational Trauma
Stress and Relaxation Response
Sympathetic: Gas on a Car Parasympathetic: the breaks
Signals our body to get ready
Energy for fighting or running from
danger, often there isn’t really
danger, we just think there is
Heart beats faster,
Stomach might hurt
Muscles tense
Cold hands
Racing thoughts
Helps us feel quiet and peaceful
Feel good
Feel relaxed and safe
Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing
slow down,
Digestion works as it should
Muscles relax
Hands and extremities warm
Better at solving problems prefrontal
cortex has blood flow
The body’s response to anxious
thought
Although the body is very intelligent, it cannot tell the difference between
an actual situation and a thought. It reacts to every thought as if it were a
reality. It doesn’t know it is just a thought. To the body, a worrisome, fearful
thought means “I am in danger,” and it responds accordingly, even though
you may be lying in a warm and comfortable bed at night. The heart
beats faster, muscles contract, breathing becomes rapid. There is a buildup
of energy, but since the danger is only a mental fiction, the energy has no
outlet. Part of it is fed back to the mind and generates even more anxious
thought. The rest of the energy turns toxic and interferes with the
harmonious functioning of the body.
Tolle, E. (2005). A New Earth. U.S.A: Plume.
Neurons that fire together, wire
together. Donald Hebb,1949
Hand model of synapse
Fist is nerve ending where neurotransmitters are released
Fingers of left hand are dendrites: the more dendrites the more
neurotransmitters are picked up and the more rapidly the synapse fires
Arms are axon
Dendrites that are not used are pruned. Synaptic connection is less likely to
fire.
Stephen Porges Polyvagal theory
Person explosed to repeat trauma
↓
Changes in neurology cause frequent
physical stress response
↓
Results in frequent anxious thought.
Person exposed to repeat trauma
↓
Narrative of self in world filled with
anxious thought
↓
Causes physical stress response and
wires neurology
Meditation
Harvard study (2011)https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-
weeks-to-a-better-brain/
Increase in gray matter in hypocampus and decreased gray matter in
amygdala after 8 weeks of meditating at least 30 minutes (non-
consecutive) a day
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Combination of Guided imagery, diaphramactic breathing, focussed
mindfulness, concentrative mediation with mantra
San Francisco schools with major reduction in discipline and improved test
scores from Transcendental Meditation in schools(2014)
Dean Ornish epigenetics research
12 week group resulted in longer telemeres (part of gene connected to
preventing or turning off of disease)thus reduced risk of prostate cancer,
alcoholism
Meditation
Sharing stressors with one another
Exercise
Mindful eating and healthy diet
Information about the stress response
Quiet time at south
5 minutes twice a day
Once over intercom
Once by teacher in classroom after lunch
Got teachers to volunteer for intercom
Variety of styles of relaxation and mindfulness
Teachers using it to put children to sleep at night
Student with school phobia in the office every day able to go to class
Movement to release cortisol
10:50 Watch video: Shaking trauma bear
https://youtu.be/eT4060GeodI?t=64
Shaking and Dancing
Imagery is deliberate and directed daydreaming.
Imagery works because it is connected to so many
centers in the brain:
the emotional centers,
the centers for thoughts and association, and perception
and the hypothalamus, which is the central switching
station for the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine
and the immune centers. The hypothalamus is the part of
the brain that triggers your stress or relaxation response.
Guided Imagery
Imagery
Active Imagery: Using words to guide you through an imagery experience
Visualization is one form of this
Words that invite sensory experience make imagery real, (color, smells, sounds,
feelings, touch)
Passive receptive imagery: This imagery leaves open ended possibilities for
our mind to offer an image to come to us spontaneously in the moment.
Invites intuition and inner healer to offer content that our logical mind would not
come up with
Fresh information for the moment that we are in
Imagery is constant because we are
meaning making machines
the images of imagined future or replayed past are
played almost constantly
Who we see in front of us when we interact with
someone is part sensory input and part imagery (image
conjured from our mental story of them)
We are firing synapsis and wiring pathways together at
all times, these images affect our physiological response
and thus our health
Healing with imagery
Joe Dispenza’s book: Tells the story of self healing through imagery
after a bicycle accident left him paralyzed
You are the Placebo
Norman Doidge’s Books: Neuroplasticity and healing
The Brain that Changes Itself
The Brain’s Way of Healing
Practice Safe Place Imagery (11:05)
What imagery is practiced when:
A child with frequent suspensions thinks of school
We imagine our next conversation with our partner
Our first thought about our work day when we wake in the
morning
Our self reference (body image)
We think about food
What we anticipate when diagnosed with an illness
Literature review on guided imagery(available upon request)
Use of imagery and relaxation to prevent development
of PTSD for those exposed to war bombing
Guided imagery and knowledge of healthy lung
function images to treat Upper respiratory illness and
asthma
Guided imagery to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Use of imagery to change mental story around trauma
triggers
Autogenics with biofeedback device
So effective that you should consult with doctor about medication doses if
practicing regularly
Use thermisters
Use biodots
Use pulse before and after (story about pulse rate of Wako surviver as proof
that boy needed intervention from The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog)
11:15 Autogenics researched in 1920’s
by Johannes Schultz
My arms are heavy and warm (pause) I am at peace (pause)
My legs are heavy and warm (pause) I am at peace (pause)
My heartbeat is calm and strong (pause) I am at peace (pause)
My abdomen radiates warmth (pause) I am at peace (pause)
My forehead is pleasantly cool (pause) I am at peace ( pause)
My breath is calm and relaxed (pause) I am at peace (pause)
8 week Mind Body Skills Group starts September 25
Meditation
Guided Imagery
Autogenic training (self
hypnosis)
Breath Work
Movement
Journal Writing
Drawing
Mindful Eating