What is Pendulation in Somatic Experiencing® with Peter A Levine, PhD

What is Pendulation in Somatic Experiencing® with Peter A Levine, PhD

[@selkiegrace]

Peter, I wish you could replicate and become everyone's grandfather.

[@DrBachHo]

Fingers crossed for crazy developments in AI 😊

[@TheBianka81]

I just had my third somatic experiencing-session and it already changes my life. It‘s like a big awakening. Even my asthma got much better after releasing the trauma of my lungs. It feels like my constant inner war just ended. It‘s such a release. This will save our world. This will help humanity to awake. May all beings awake and find true release from their suffering.

[@petyabor5223]

Hello! Glad to hear positive experience from Somatic therapy. How are you now? Are you still doing Somatic therapy?

[@TheBianka81]

@@petyabor5223 Yes, I‘m still in therapy. It helps me a lot but it takes also time. I love it!!

[@carolinebray3931]

who did you go to? thank you

[@petyabor5223]

@@TheBianka81 Oh, happy to hear it, that it helps. Are you doing your session online or no? You're mentioned that after the third session, you had changes, ans how you feel now do you ffeel anxiety or something like yhat after your session? How long you are in therapy? How exactly looks one session of yours? I had just one session up to now and, I don't know, also I had bad experience from my previous therapist she was Sensorimotor therapy, wich is Somatic therapy, that's why I don't know what to expect. Thank you in advance!

[@TheBianka81]

@@petyabor5223 Hi, I‘m still in therapy every second week. We are working in every session on topics which are on top at that day or moment. My therapist asks me about things in my body and we try to explore an release it. I always get really good images for relief. I think it will take a quite long time to go on with my themes. It‘s good to learn not to rush but take my time for each theme and especially for integration. Lots of love and blessings, Bianka

[@chrismorris7813]

Contraction and expansion as the basic rhythm of life--I love this! This means that in our worst moments, we are only temporarily disconnected from the expansion that is coming. Peter, I can see expansion in your bright eyes! Thank you!

[@EllyLugosi]

Love your comment Chris!

[@theageofgoddess]

Chris, yes absolutely love this comment, it's so true 🙏🏼

[@kissenklauer7011]

I think when dealing with anxiety it's important to not stop and leave/avoid the situation when experiencing the contraction. that way you never give your body a chance to experience that the bad sensation will eventually stop. the expansion will come, it always comes.

[@hew195050]

Nice!

[@iffybaker5013]

Oh i experience BAD STUFF!!

[@wavy6470]

Staying in an abusive situation can make a lot more damage. I know what you wanted to say, but it only works in some cases of irrational anxiety and can make complex trauma worse.

[@kissenklauer7011]

@@wavy6470 mh yeah makes sense.

[@AmidalaEmma]

ONly if you can handle it, you don't want to risk re-traumatizing yourself, which is why somatic therapists bring you through this slowly letting you handle only what you can.

[@GodHelpMe369]

Attachment styles are about more than romance. They’re wired into the core of our nervous systems, and they’re a foundational element of who we are. They show up every time we get stressed - in any relationship. Unresolved wounding is what causes us to be so insecure. If you want to feel security, connection, and confidence in every aspect of your life, then you MUST learn how to solve the conflict/repair cycle because that’s the foundation of it all. The journey doesn’t end by learning your attachment style. It’s just the beginning.

[@DrBachHo]

Thank you! And hopefully over time in our healing journey, the “MUST” can relax a little and we can re-discover simple enjoyment of life! 😊

[@nnylasoR]

This also made me think of success (expand) and failure (contract). Neither is exclusively good or bad, positive or negative, worthy of praise or deserving of shame. It depends on context, AND if you allow yourself to learn from the experience and use that knowledge to move yourself ~and others!!~ forward. (A little rambly, and probably sounded better in my head 😄, but there you have it. ✊♥️)

[@jeannetet3762]

What you say about Pendulation makes a lot of sense to me. The pendulation process, since I first encountered the Trauma, has lasted almost 10 years. For years, I felt useless due to the inability to resolve, decide, and give a direction to my life. I still in this process, but I am more pacient with my self. I still felt/feeling like "not being" It's great that science has progressed, and brilliant minds like Dr. Peter enlighten us, showing that we just need to trust the process and be benevolent with ourselves. Thank you for uploading this video.❤

[@DrBachHo]

Be benevolent with ourselves! Totally, thank you for this invitation to return to fundamentals amidst all the sophisticated therapeutic protocols.

[@jamieanderson5991]

Thank you

[@dis8011]

Thank you. Just found your work, you speak so eloquently with wisdom on so many levels. It really is journey back to Wholeness. 💗🌺🙏☺️💐

[@petradesousa20]

Thank you so much. You are truly an inspiration and an amazing human being. So grateful to have found this

[@MsDutchee]

Thank you so much for all your work, you have saved so many lives. I wouldn't know where I would be without your work today.

[@jackinsonpablanes760]

how

[@sofiafantin5280]

Did you do SE?

[@andrereloaded1425]

I'm stuck in freeze mode from years of traumatic experiences with little respite in between.

[@sharoncravenor2226]

He is what zi considered a messenger! Thank you!

[@enikoadam2981]

Thank you for this speech of him. It is an uplifting experience hearing him speak. Stay safe and healthy. Best wishes from Germany.

[@johnwerahiko6226]

Excellent illustration.

[@michaelk622]

Exactly what I’ve experienced. Blessings

[@Knifymoloko]

Very interesting. Is there a useful video someone can link that demonstrates practical technique of this?

[@Nina.Goradia]

Thank you!

[@estherann7407]

This is an excellent explanation and has give me a visual to what I've experienced most of my life, trauma! Oh, the importance of somatic exercises. Thank you Dr. Levine for this and all of your valuable work.

[@DrBachHo]

Thank you! Yes to both visual and somatic sensory! I’ve also found visuals very helpful in my own process, especially when sensations get too intense 😊

[@draw4everyone]

the "basic life feeling is one of expansion" - this is Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John Dewey's lebensphilosophie rolled into one

[@Be1More]

helpful.... thank you

[@HerbertSimonDachs]

Reminds me of indirect craniosacral or fascia work.

[@kieran.stafford]

What does he mean? Is this physical or mental expansion. He refers to the body and amoeba which suggest physical. So is he talking about the body physically contracting and expanding, or the mind or both? Sometimes the language used by these people is a struggle.

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

I see all of life as analogous to a muscular contraction and release . It's encouraging to see that I'm not the only crazy thinking about these things...

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

Dude just pretty much put into words what I have been thinking about for the last 2 months. It's satisfying feeling

[@DrBachHo]

Thank you, it’s so awesome when someone else articulates our private “am I crazy?” thoughts!

[@sofieannbracke]

Is a principle in Taiji.

[@jessyturner6608]

Is the expansion and contraction the movement between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system? I.e the somatic sensations associated/ experienced by an individual when in these two different states?

[@DrBachHo]

Thank you, and if I can pile my question atop yours: Can both expansion and contraction be enjoyable? 😊

[@youbetyourwrasse]

I just wanna Zen and BE STILL.

[@DrBachHo]

Thank you. Ain’t that the truth!

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

expand contract expand contract sounds exactly like a spasm. So a spasm in the muscle is really just the body allowing itself to open up again... interesting

[@gerr7207]

Sounds nice at first, but what is it that contracts and expands? What exactly?

[@huntingvega3876]

Probably something best experienced for oneself, but it seems like he’s talking about the body/minds tendency to retract / withdraw from pain or fear of pain, vs. relaxing / trusting bodily sensations / being “open” to raw sensory experience. The more you relax your body the more sensations you can feel

[@findreasontherapy5967]

what is the colourful thing he is using called?

[@realspen5082]

“That I just happen to have in my back pocket” 😂😂😂😂

[@Ujuani68]

1:00: A "body container"?! Sounds like a casket to me!

[@carolkd4018]

That's hilarious-- great humor!!! The container is a neat concept, visualization-- forgot where i saw it yesterday, but look it up on YT and you'll find it. Could get a quicker picture too if you Googled the term-- tho' you'll surely run across a casket company or two!

[@RiaandBobby]

Does pendulation actually function in people who have trauma and persistent or chronic pain? It feels like when the tension / contraction that comes with these conditions hits, it keeps contracting over and over again and it hurts to match that.

[@DrBachHo]

Sounds so painful! Eternal, unceasing contraction!

[@ulfmanuel]

Does anybody know which tool he uses to demonstrate the pendulation? Is it a toy or something like that? Thanks :-)

[@susanbartlett615]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoberman_sphere

[@dd-1280]

What tool is he using?

[@Prohitd]

1:59 Hoberman’s Sphere.

[@FreeJulianAssange23]

If someone said I could remove one type of abuse from my life but would have to experience every other type again, I would take away PAS. Our children give us strength, willpower, motivation and encouragement. Without mine I am nothing. #parentalalienationawareness

[@GodHelpMe369]

here's what I'm working on... I'm desperately struggling... I need prayers. I need guidance. I need help. I need a miracle. MY VOICE HAS BEEN SILENCED MY WHOLE DAMN LIFE. MY BEAUTIFUL SACRED MIRACULOUS VOICE. MY VOICE IS MY MAGICAL GIFT OF TRANSMUTATION! that being said, all my life... I have given people access to me in ways that I should not have EVER granted them access now, I want to scream at the top of my lungs: FUCK OFF!! YOU DO NOT GET TO HAVE ACCESS TO ME IN THAT WAY!! THE DOOR IS NOT OPEN!! YOU MAY NOT COME IN!! ACCESS DENIED!! but fuck, so much easier said than done. I've been programmed my whole life to be silent, conditioned to have no boundaries... so how, now, at 44 years old, do I change this all around? (may those whom I loathe suffer for all eternity for what they've done to me! TRULY.)

[@canadianfamilyEph3-20]

I think that in particular a letting go of resentment by noticing anger and how it feels in the body, and breathing out, when in a moment of NOT being in a bad situation you realise right now you are okay, right now you are safe. Letting go of the tension in this moment. As to not being heard that's what I heard you say because I too have almost always no matter where I am I'm not heard! I began to see that I need to write my thoughts and feelings and hear myself at least. I talk to God. I feel the pain even right now it is between my heart and my throat the feeling of not being heard. That's also been in my gut. I have fought depression and basically not able to cope. I am learning how to just let the feeling be, and relax it. I studied yoga in 1989 and I'm going online for learning somatic experiencing. Have hope and boundaries internally, don't let the anger of whatever you have suffered still burn and burn - feel and acknowledge thoughts and feelings and then choose to let it go and trust the process.

[@autumnlove2046]

Contracting or expanding 020420

[@CScripture]

Having money makes u feel More expanded loo

[@tuficek]

For a while tgan you are back

[@Knifymoloko]

Same with drugs lol. No but really anyone know the practical techniques to utilize this?

[@GodHelpMe369]

I want to die I'm in hell and I can't find escape rage and grief consume me

[@someguy5073]

such a joke

[@DrBachHo]

Well hopefully at least you got some pleasure out of laughter 😊