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Introduction
Have you experienced a trauma? Maybe your mind remembers. Maybe it forgot. But your body? it holds on. It’s the heaviness in your chest, the stiffness in your neck and the unhealthy patterns you can’t escape. But here is the truth. There are many proven ways like somatic therapy, breathwork and more for trauma release. The process is gentle. Gradual. But possible.
How to Release Trauma from the Body
Somatic Therapy to Feel Free
To heal is not always to fix. It is to feel. This is what somatic therapy helps with. It is a form of body-based trauma healing that encourages you to find the connection between your feelings and the physical reactions they trigger. Once located, it uses various techniques like deep breathing, stretching and movement to regulate your nervous system. This process helps you understand your pain, what triggers it and guides you in letting it go.
Breathwork to Feel Safe Again
Stuck trauma can make your nervous system feel frozen in a fight or flight mode. You feel anxious, scared as if something bad is just bound to happen. This makes us believe that overthinking is the most rational way out. But to be honest, the most logical thing you can do is to exhale fully, like you mean it. Methods like deep belly or box breathing move traumatic energy out of your body. With each breath, you let go and feel safe like you never did before
Yoga to Move Out the Pain
Trauma doesn’t just freeze your mind. It traps your body in stillness as well. Yoga is effective for trauma release as it helps in moving the pain out of your body with physical movements. Gentle poses like a child pose gives a comforting hug to your inner child. While pigeon pose along with others offer you a chance to slow down. Every stretch creates a little more space. A little less pain.
Energy Healing to Feel Empowered
At times we feel so overwhelmed with pain that explaining it can feel impossible. Luckily, healing doesn’t always have to be explained. Sometimes, it just needs to be felt. And energy healing is an incredibly powerful way to do so. We unconsciously hold trauma in our energy bodies as well. Soothing therapies like Sound Healing or Reiki help in eliminating the emotional blockages that are causing the trauma to stay stuck.
Meditation to Feel Present
Trauma thrives in chaos. It wants you to stay stuck in the past. Your mind keeps running and repeating all the painful details you want to let go of. Meditation is extremely helpful for trauma release as it creates a peaceful stillness in the mind. It clears the negative thoughts which allows your body to finally speak up. Every sensation. Every thought. Here, you learn to observe instead of reacting. And slowly, you exit the pain of the past and come alive to the soothing peace of your present reality.
5 Signs Your Body is Releasing Trauma
- Healing comes in waves. Sometimes it may feel like nothing. Other times? You will find yourself randomly crying in the shower but it will feel cathartic.
- You may feel unusually tired. Not in a drained type of way. But in a peaceful way that makes you want to get more sleep or just slow down.
- You will feel lighter as if the simple act of breathing has become a lot easier.
- A unique sign of trauma release that many feel is heat or tingling in the body. It almost feels like your system is exhaling years of tension.
- You become more observant, noticing little positive things that used to slip by unnoticed.
Wrapping it Up!
If you feel stuck or overwhelmed with pain, we want you to remember that there is always a way to let it go. And your body already knows it. Even if your mind does not. Reach out to our team at Home of Wellness. We offer so many different types of therapies including breathwork sessions in Dubai that will help you heal. So, show up for yourself today. We promise your body will thank you in its own time.