[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 244 – An Autobiography of Trauma with Peter A Levine, PhD

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Jack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness.

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“Healing has to be coming together through the minute particulars in the body and in the story that’s actually our experience and not some idea about it.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh conversation, Jack and Dr. Levine dive into:
  • Mapping trauma and the path to healing suffering
  • A relaxing Jack “Just Here: Guided Meditation” on loving awareness
  • How An Autobiography of Trauma led to Peter’s powerful healing journey
  • Working with the astrological and Jungian archetype of Chiron, the Wounded Healer
  • Somatic Experiencing and the roots of healing trauma in the body
  • The transformative aspects of meeting trauma with loving kindness and persistence
  • Curiosity as a necessary factor of enlightenment
  • How the gift of Jack’s childhood trauma led him to discover Buddhism
  • Imagination and Peter’s mystical meet-ups with Albert Einstein
  • Miracles, intuition, and psychic premonition/knowing
  • What Jack shared with his scientific-materialist atheist father on his deathbed
  • Our inseparable connection and recognition that it’s always “us” in this web of life

“The whole notion that we are separate is a fabrication. We are in a field of consciousness.” – Jack Kornfield

About Peter A Levine, PhD:

Dr. Peter A. Levine has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years, is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing method, and founder of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. To connect more with Peter’s teachings, pick up a copy of his illuminating book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, and sign up for his upcoming classes and programs at SomaticExperiencing.com

This conversation was originally filmed on 5/24/24 by the Ergos Institute of Somatic Experiencing as a community health somatic support benefit for MathMoms in Cape Town, South Africa. You can help support this compassionate initiative here.
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