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	Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences Peter Levine, Ann Frederick North Atlantic Books, 1997 - 250 pages average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Our Healing Instincts

Waking the Tiger is Peter Levine's book on healing traumas. Although I am not a psychologist or therapist, its powerful and natural method is intensely appealing. Everybody in his or her life is bound to obtain traumas. This need not be due to serious accidents or maltreatment, even supposedly harmless events suffice to shock our system. And not only people, animals too, are subject to trauma.

And it is this world Levine put his attention to. He observed the ways in which an animal 'shakes off' the intense energies after a traumatising event subsides. A human however, with its sophisticated and reasoning brain, has a tendency to thwart this instinctive reaction. As a result the intense energies have no way to discharge and the body has to find other ways to stay in balance. Symptoms arise that can seriously and structurally impede a person's healthy and joyful experience of life.

Levine's method to heal does not involve long term therapy in which the traumatising event is relived again and again. It involves sensing your body and tracking the trauma energies. Once these are discovered you are encouraged to make the instinctive and natural body movements needed to discharge these energies. His method is as simple as it is effective because it knows how to harness the instinctive and natural capacities to heal. Capacities we all possess.

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Waking the Tiger:Healing Trauma:The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

This book is very helpful to start or continue healing from any type of trauma. It encourages the reader to participate on every human and innate level to transform the psyche and heal. Be gentle and patient with oneself when applying the exercises; time and participation do heal. I've had the book since September and I'm still reading and practicing the new information. My trauma happened seven years ago.

Really interesting

I own it. It's really awesome and simple at the same time. Just read it carefully, you'll find lots of useful information...

The wonders of interdiciplinary books

I did not know what to expect; I was looking for answers about deeply embedded trauma and instead I discovered a whole new field: biological Physics.Medical and psychological jargon is well explained and not overwhelming and conveys the complexity of the issues. The book also gives practical tips for the traumatised as well as those trying to help without falling into a simplistic and boring self-help book. I have gained respect for the human reptilian nature and understand better our lost connections to the animal world. After this brief review I would give this book 4 and a half stars and will be looking forward to read more books in holistic sciences as well as authored by Dr. Levine.

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PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)

I happen to have this book on my bookshelf. Good basic PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) work for the beginning and advanced practitioner. Also, a fairly easy to read introduction to PTSD treatment for the layman.

The only downside is that it offers more conclusions than exercises for the layman, and this can lead the uninitiated to assume they know all about it now, on "authority".

Otherwise, Good Show Levine!

James Nemec LMT, CST-D
Author, TOUCH THE OCEAN, THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS

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