Tonight, you are going to receive a few sentences from Burras that I'm not going to elaborate on but just offer them because time has again escaped me. I hope you will let me know if they are helpful or confusing; it you want to hear more from or not.
Here goes with a quote from Peter Levine that Burras highlights:
"In our exploration of trauma we have learned about the primordial energies (italics mine) that reside within the reptilian core of our brains. We are not reptiles, but without clear access to our reptilian and mammalian heritage, we are not able to be fully human. The fullness of our humanity lies in the ability to integrate the functions of our triune brain.
"We see that to resolve trauma we must learn to move fluidly between instinct, emotion, and rational thought. When these three sources are in harmony, communicating sensation, feeling, and cognition, our organisms operate as they were designed to."
I guess I have to comment! Mostly the word 'energies' excites me. Do you have friends that talk about 'energy'? Thinking that energy is primordial, (with primordial meaning original, primary) and has been with us forever is exciting to me.
Now time is really up - so let me know if you have any idea what Levine, Burras, and I are talking about! Do these ideas excite you?
Thanks for exploring the mystery - Nicky Mendenhall
Well the thing about the lizard brain is that it is, for me anyway, extremely difficult to control. Or even effect. So the goal of moving smoothly in and out of the darn thing feels un-achievable.
ReplyDeleteOh MJ - Thank you for expressing what many of us are feeling. I think the key here is your word control. Controlling the primordial energies is darn near impossible. Our best bet is to work with them, to get to know them, to understand them. Ignore them or repress them and they will always manage to outwit us.
DeleteHope that helps. This is not an easy assignment!