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Waking the Tiger - Healing Trauma - The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

By Peter A. Levine

Book information

Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Year
1997
ISBN
155643233X, 9781556432330
LCC
RC552.P67 L48 1997
Open Library ID
OL658703M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1831528 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
178\193
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

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