A successful therapeutic technique is one that can undo the negative affects of all of the unresolved situations. Unresolved, past moments become trapped within the body and cause upset to the mind. Somatic therapies allow the body relief by allowing is to use our imaginations to re-enact the past and coax the suppressed emotions to the surface. Doing so, most importantly, allows us to resolve the past by imaging and allowing ourselves to experience a scenario in which our caregivers could have been present enough to let us feel our emotions and then by imaging them offering the validation of our truth and the comfort and love we needed in order to be at peace with our bodies our minds and our lives. Our minds have the ability to relive and re-orchestrate the stressful moments in our history. Our imaginations are a gift that can set things right in a way that affects us neurologically. What the mind imagines, the body feels, and by experiencing someone who could have validated our pain, and provided the caring, comfort and love that we all deserved, we can experience the emotional relief that simultaneously creates the physical relief. Unresolved traumas in our childhood, whether dramatic or developmental, neurologically wire us and in doing so, determine the probability of future harmony or conflict. Without resolve, the remaining internal conflict between what the body knows to be the truth, and what the mind told itself had happened, will continue to attract situations which mirror the conflictual emotions that were left disturbing the nervous system.
This Emotional Life 