Trauma and Addiction - Peter A. Levine
Vegas nerve is 80% afferance, sense from the gut. Then send signal to the brain (efference) and got amplify and come back down. chanting - with abdomen - learn to sooth themselves, rather than using addiction to release pain (release is not a discharge. it release the tension, but it will come back). connect with heart, and other body parts together - co-regulating with some breathes together - to allow deep contact (connection). Have you find in your experience that addition of toxi shame... Shame has many dimensions. it is like a cancer. it starts as a tumor, then start to spread to different parts of the body, drag us down - co-regulation to dis-regulation shame and disgust are companions. Once guided them to breath slowly (symentic therapy) be more mindful of how their postures are feeling - contraction/expansion/contraction/expansion - you will see the person's spin is elongated - ventilation - mindfulness - bodifulness... when thoughts come up during ...