The goal of therapy is resolution. Facing the unresolved conflicts of the past is crucial to restoring peace between the mind and body. Somatic therapies allow us to return to the places in our past where internal conflicts were formed. We can reenact the past in our minds, coax the emotions into reemergence, and then most importantly, resolve the past by allowing the body to experience the proper response to our past dilemmas. Through the use of our imagination, our mind has the ability to relive and re-orchestrate the stressful moments in our history. What the mind imagines, the body feels, and by experiencing someone who could have validated the 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, 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 that mirror the conflictual emotions that were left disturbing the nervous system.
This Emotional Life 