fight

flight

flee

love for her father vs. dread of assault are inseparate states of consciousness

Volunteers had not responded to therapy

Yoga improved arousal levels

Yoga improved volunteers' relationship to theirbodies

Breath practices

Stretches or postures

Meditation

Trauma survivors have high levels of muscleactivity relative to nontraumatized

Challenge for survivors is to attain completerelaxation and quiet surrender

makes her "mind disappear"

cutting/sefdestructive behaviour

Focus on out breath (activates theparasympathetic nervous system)

Tapping of accupressure points

Terror from a corrective touch by an instructor

recognition of the healing value a of yoga

recognition of her disconnection from herbody

Letting her body tell her the story it wants to

muscle tension

feelings of disintegration in affected body areas

Half turn to alcohol & drugs

Others turn to sensation seeking

Multiple sypmtoms

Diagnoses seldom seen as their way to copewith their trauma symptoms

regulate arousal

control her physiology

able to talk more freely about what happenedto her

After a trigger she was able to contain herself

she was able to explain/verbalize the meaningof the trigger

Annie learned to "just have" her feelingswithout being "hijacked by them"