What is somatic therapy, and how does it help in dealing with a major accident or deep trauma?
Many times a person's body stores his stress in some part. In such a situation, whenever stress triggers, pain starts in specific parts of the body. For this, somatic therapy is considered very effective.
Somatic Therapy
Stress has become a cause of everyone's problems these days. Breakdowns in relationships, accidents, sadness, and loneliness are many such reasons that cause stress in the mind. Psychiatrists say that not only your brain but also your body stores the stress caused by these reasons. That is, the stress in the mind gets stored in some form in the body which manifests itself in the form of pain in some part of the body like the back or body. In such a situation, it is important to take the help of some effective therapy to remove this physical and mental stress. In such a situation, Somatic Therapy has become quite popular. Somatic therapy is therapy in which psychiatrists make the person healthy by freeing the stressed emotions of the person. Let us know what somatic therapy is and how it works.
What is somatic therapy?
Soma means science related to the body of any human being. Through this therapy, therapists help in removing the suppressed stress, anxiety, fear, and confusion in the patient's heart and body. It could be some kind of accident, it could be a deep trauma. Such traumas get captured in the mind as well as in the body and they become painful in some parts of the body. When a person remembers this trauma, pain starts in that part. Somatic therapy works to relieve this stress stored in the body in the form of pain.
This therapy treats accident victims
Experts say that this therapy is especially effective for those who are patients of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). people who have survived an accident or are suffering from the loss of a loved one take part in it. In such a situation, these accidents and traumas become so deeply embedded in the patient's mind that the body stores them. When this type of stress is triggered, the nervous system of the body is also affected and hormones like cortisol are released. Due to this, bp becomes high, the immune system is also adversely affected and pain starts in many parts of the body.
How does somatic therapy work?
Through this therapy, therapists find the points that store stress in the body and try to relieve them. By relieving the stress related to trauma, shock, and accident, thoughts and feelings are calmed down. In this therapy, patients try to relieve physical stress through dance, exercise, music, pranayam, and other physical activities.