Most of the people that I have have the ability to do it, even if I prompt it.

And then what happens it diffuses. It allows for the dissipation of the energy because what usually happens when you get overwhelmed is that you can't find a way to relax again.

So you get overwhelmed, it's too much, it's a big threat, and then you check out. And I know or have an idea of how

the body works to perpetuate that checking out, you know, and some of its repression, which is connected to

voluntary muscle work, and some of its dissociation, which is connected to very

early, like, I don't want to be here. I'm gone. And so each one of the person who comes out of

repression, like tightening down, if they can loosen up a little bit, the actual experience

of the event lessons, it's not as traumatizing.

It's, I didn't like it. I'm not going to forget it, but it's not as devastating.

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So if you follow this podcast it won't be a surprise to you to know how much we love to dig into the science and learn new things our audience loves that too

we just kind of eat that stuff up.

But sometimes that can, you know, unintentionally land us a little bit left-oriented, left

brain, a little bit into our heads.

If we're taking what we're learning seriously, a lot of this stuff

brings us right back to our bodies, to our sinews, to our muscles, to this corpus that we live in. So we were very interested in bringing, you know,

balancing that out, continuing to balance that out in our conversations, but also

with our guests. This particular guest, Dr Robert Kaufman, was actually recommended to us by a patron.

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