Traumatic experiences can affect relationships with friends, family, and coworkers as well as cause mental health problems like depression, anxiety, and alcohol and drug usage. Don't dismiss emotions or actions that may be signs of past trauma. Start dealing with them! Relationship trouble, depression, and listlessness may be signs of past trauma.
There are 3 categories of trauma: Complex, Chronic, and Acute. The effect of a single event is acute trauma. Trauma that is chronic is recurring and lasts a long time, like domestic abuse or violence. Exposure to several and numerous traumatic situations, frequently of an intrusive, interpersonal kind, is known as complex trauma.
Searching for a path to recovery?
We must focus on the positive side of rehabilitation when considering the question, " How can I get past this? Be patient with yourself, don't be too hard on yourself, and remember that you didn't do anything to deserve the suffering or the events connected to the scenario that injured you. Give yourself permission to experience good and bad days. Try body and dance movements or workout routines; movement can assist your nervous system heal after the trauma has disrupted it. Incorporate more innovative ways to feel good and get the blood circulating. The body stores a lot of memory, tension, and unwanted emotion, when you don't move or release those emotions, it will build up within your body, which could make you ill.
Burton (1925) proposed that dance therapy can develop spirituality and physicality. This correlates to the mind, body, and soul ideology; where all three are seemingly connected. Unlike the soul, the mind and the body cannot be separated because they work together as one. Many emotions, memories, sensations, desires, etc. come from the mind but are often experienced throughout out the body (McGonigal, 2012). Scholars believed that dance emerged after the European Renaissance, which created a variety of dance within time (Payne, 2006). On the grounds of a society that is always developing, dance has and will continue to change with time. Researchers have shown how emotion regulation occurs through movements, as it reflects, neurons activation during motor observation.
Different types of motor behavior modifications contribute to emotion regulation based on changes in motor behavior changes in autonomic nervous system activation and in metabolic processes that generate elevated moods, reduce stress-anxiety, depression. (Calvo et al., 2015). Dancing can improve the brain functioning of individual's that suffer from dizziness and memory loss, by guiding the brain to prevent these issues from surfacing. When the brain is healthy functioning, the following occurs, positive behavioral changes, steady breathing, and proper circulations in blood vessels and veins (Philadelphia Integrated Medicine, 2018).
How to help?
If you know someone struggling with past trauma, lend them your ear, hear them out, listen…
Give them time.
Accept their feelings.
Use the same words they use to avoid triggering them.
Don't dismiss their experiences.
Only give advice if you're asked to.
Ask for help, find out what resources is accessible in your neighborhood.
Connect with positive people.
Give yourself credit when its due...and stop looking at what didn't work out.
Happy Monday and be well!
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