How To Wake Your Body Back Up

After Feeling Shutdown or Collapsed

Here is a quick and simple exercise you can try at home for working with collapse or feeling shut down in the body. This comes from Peter Levine’s trauma work Somatic Experiencing. Collapse happens in response to a traumatic event, and it is a state of “hypoarousal”, which means that the nervous system is slowing way down. In the animal world it is akin…