Somatic Discernment

Honoring basic bodily needs helps restore body trust. Nature-based resistance is usually felt as friction or blankness rather than visceral alarm. The body is treated as a source of information about yes, no, trust, danger, pleasure, and discomfort. Emotions and psychological states register physically in different ways. Numbness is treated as a somatic state rather than a lack of state. Titration means engaging small doses of an otherwise intolerable experience. Pendulation involves moving attention between an activated sensation and a neutral or less activated bodily area.