Recommended read, "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma"

[Gustaf]

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

I am two thirds into this book and my discernment finds it very accurate in his description on what trauma really is, and the role the body and animal instinct play. It shares a lot of things with the teachings we learn here. If you google "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma ebook" without the "'s you will find it available everywhere from amazon to free ebooks.

I am sharing it because it was a powerful synchronicity and faith boost for clearing karma and understanding the magnificent intelligence of the body mind.

Love
Gustaf

[Gustaf]

I should have written this reply quite some time ago. The reason I recommended that book, is because I found that it verified, from a scientist's view, the work we do here with karma and trauma. The karma is often trapped in the body, in muscles, joint, tissues and physical processes. Don't we all feel it, when something is triggered in us, or after being stuck in a destructive mindset for long? We feel it in the body, very vividly, and it gets louder and louder, until we find a way to release it.

Everywhere I look, I find this to be universal, not only in spiritual traditions and methods, but in an every growing body of scientific research as well. Maybe we don't need to remember every difficult or traumatic thing, maybe, most of the time, we simply need to release it physically, and emotionally.. After all, is it not trapped nervous energy?

[Gopi]

Thank you for posting about this book. I read it and found it resonant with several of my personal experiences with trauma. There is lots of useful information in the book.

I believe in one of the monthly FST chat's Mystress mentioned that Levine's thesis is not completely accurate. If I recollect correctly, traumatic memories stored in the body (released as tremor etc.) are not karma itself (as Levine claims) but rather the unreleased emotional content that builds up because of unresolved karma. Not sure if I am explaining it correctly.