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Thus, emotional trauma can result from a single extre and deeply felt experience or from a series of low-intensity events. Even everyday happeningsfalls, difficult births, betrayals, dicaldental procedurescan cause the sa lingering traumatic effects as extre or violent events, such as physical abuse, bat, or serious aidents. Fortunately, even traumatic effects that linger for years can be resolved, and the result can be a new present-day reality that includesbut is not dominated bya traumatic past. The sa imnse energies that create the symptoms of trauma cheap nike air max 90 trainers uk , when properly engaged and mobilized, can transform the trauma and propel us into new heights of healing, mastery, and even wisdom, writes Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. The Natural Trauma Response Levine and others contend that emotional trauma goes unhealed when the natural trauma response is interrupted and feelings unleaed by the event remain unresolved. 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Just like the animals retion, such responses are natural and part of the bodys effort to return to a state of equilibrium. They are crucial to the recovery process, and they may go on for hours, days, or weeks. Too often nike roshe run mens black , however, we deny this process or dont give it its due. We say to ourselves or hear from others, Pull yourself together. Forget about it. Get up and ake it off. Its ti to get on with your life. And when we do that, when we ignore the emotional and physical sensations that continue after a traumatizing event, we interrupt the natural cycle, ort-circuiting our natural ability to heal. It is this, more than anything, that sets us up for a damaging traumatic aftermath. The animals ability to rebound from threat can serve as a model for humans, Levine writes. It gives us a direction that may point the way to our own innate healing abilities. Life After Trauma The incidence of serious negative events that typically evoke traumatic response is surprisingly pervasive in our culture today. A 20-year study released in 2005 by Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention owed that of the 17,337 middle-class participants nike roshe run women floral , a startling 64% had experienced one or more of eight categories of traumatic childhood events. The study owed a significant connection between this childhood trauma and disease, depression, drug use, andor suicide. Perhaps thats because unresolved trauma can undermine basic human needs. Dena Rosenbloom and Mary Beth Williams, authors of Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing, identify these basic needs as safety, trust, and a asure of control over ones life, self-worth, and intimy. These writers and others stress that reliving ones emotional pain is not necessary to heal trauma. For so nike roshe run mens uk , doing so may trigger re-traumatization. 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