Repattern the Adaptive Self
Self as a patterned organism
The S.O.M.A Tree is a metaphor representing the body as a sensing, relating, interacting organism. SOMA - the whole of your livingness --is a body-centered interaction of personality, history and the nervous system.
Adaptive personalty traits (branches) are interrelated with nervous system states and informed by the roots of Trauma. Re-Patterning therefore inherently requires somatic intervention.
The Somatic Nervous System
Grey: Collapse.
Red: Mobilize.
Green: Flourish
Childhood dynamics physically encode in
neural pathways and run adult patterns.
What Shape Are Your Patterns?
What traumatic roots inform these shapes?
The nervous system biologically invokes protective behavioral patterns (adaptive branches) by reading signals from memories and imprints in ones roots (trauma). And yet, we are neurologically highly capable of shifting our nervous system into regulated states, pruning old networks and growing new ones. Trauma is less about what happened to us and more about what has been patterned within us.
Engaging the body in therapy naturally supports re-organization because one's living soma is always seeking to move toward regulation.
The SOMA Method will awaken in the body what was once unsafe to feel, so adaptive patterns created to self-protect can let go and new branches can awaken.
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