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I hope this Newsletter finds you well wherever you are at in this moment.<\/p>\n

Today I\u2019d like to share two interesting articles I recently came across. They both speak about the importance of body awareness and how increased body awareness can lead to greater health and wellness. And as you might figure, the opposite might then cause tension, stress, anxiety, depression, just to mention some.<\/p>\n

The first article is about why yoga and meditation isn\u2019t the overall solution for everyone. It depends on your relationship to stillness. Who doesn\u2019t like stillness you might wonder? Well, if you have experienced trauma where you for example were incapable of escaping an assault or an attack, the incomplete fight\/flight response in your nervous system is still waiting to be completed. In other words, the automimic nervous system chooses in the moment the best solution to keep us alive; and if fighting back or escaping isn\u2019t an option, the nervous system goes into a freeze response. Like other mammals, we are less prone to be killed if we are still. You might have seen that in documentaries about wild animals, who when attacked by for example a lion, goes into a freeze state (looking dead) and hopefully the lion then loses interest and leaves. The smaller animal will rise after a while, shake, and wonder off\u2026<\/p>\n

In humans, we seem to lack the ability to \u201cshake off\u201d this trapped energy, and without the right support we might stay in a freeze state.<\/p>\n

Now to why yoga and meditation might be challenging for someone who has experienced trauma. In yoga and meditation, we are sometimes asked to \u201chold a pose\u201d for a longer period of time, and for many people the stillness might trigger the feeling of being in danger\/ being trapped and our stress\/anxiety might even worsen.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here; why-yoga-can-be-triggering-for-trauma-survivors-8c687140525d<\/a><\/p>\n

The other article is about interoception. It explains why it\u2019s so important to listen to and get familiar with the signals that our body is sending to our brain. Interoception is a \u201cconstant dialogue between the brain and the viscera\u201d and includes the signals from all the internal organs like the cardiovascular system, the lungs, the gut, the bladder, and the kidneys.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearchers and clinicians are recognising interoception as a key mechanism to mental and physical health, where understanding our body\u2019s signals helps us understand and regulate emotional and physical states,\u201d says Dr Helen Weng at the University of California San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here;