Slowly scan your environment. Find three objects that feel neutral or pleasant. This tells your nervous system, "I am safe in this moment".

According to Dr. Peter Levine in In an Unspoken Voice , trauma is not a mental disorder; it’s a biological injury. When we can't fight or flee during a threat, our system "freezes," trapping high-intensity survival energy inside our nervous system.

In Peter Levine's book , he argues that trauma is not a disease but a physical injury caused by trapped survival energy. True healing occurs when we listen to the body's "unspoken voice" through somatic awareness rather than just talking through the memories.

If you feel chronically "stuck" in anxiety (fight/flight) or numbness (freeze), your vagus nerve might be out of balance. Here are three somatic tools from Dr. Peter Levine’s work to help you start reconnecting:

Shifting your perspective can help, but your nervous system needs bottom-up processing (body first, mind second) to truly release the tension.

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