The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
I could be seen as a living case study for these theories.<p>I started experiencing a complex combination of physiological symptoms in early adulthood (actually in childhood in some ways), that gradually got worse into my 30s.<p>All kinds of treatments were suggested and tried over several years, but nothing really moved the needle until I started regular practice of subconscious emotional healing techniques. I&#x27;ve been doing this type of work for about 7 years now.<p>There is improvement in a lot of areas, though the process is not complete. I still have some anxiety and muscle tension&#x2F;pain, and evidence of inflammation in my body. But it&#x27;s not nearly as bad as it was before I started the emotional work. And I keep finding new emotional baggage to heal. So it&#x27;s a long journey, but the results are clear.<p>It&#x27;s hard to talk about with peers, as there&#x27;s a general attitude among scientifically-minded people that the notion of a link between emotions&#x2F;thoughts and physiology is absurd.<p>Yet the very same people will generally insist that there is no mind-body distinction, and that consciousness is obviously just an emergent phenomenon of brain matter&#x2F;chemistry.<p>Apparently it doesn&#x27;t occur to a lot of people that if mind and body are one and the same, mind activity must surely be deeply interconnected to physiology.<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s a little of my story.<p>AMA.