An in-depth investigation into how procedural memory operates unconsciously to shape and direct our lives for better or for worse. The good news is that somatic psychology provides many insights and tools to help make unconscious, procedural memory conscious. The result is an increased and expanded menu of life options.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Peter Levine’s …
é

3. Thread 1:
Any life event only becomes a trauma
when overwhelming emotions interfere
with proper
memory
processing.
(pg. xi)

4. Thread 2:
Somatic Experiencing helps us transcend
“the destructive explanation compulsion”
and create
an inner sense
of ownership
and control
over previously
out-of-control
sensations and
reactions.
(pg. xviii)

5. Thread 3:
Research resoundingly demonstrates that
memory is a reconstructive process that
is continually
selecting, adding,
deleting,
rearranging
and updating
information – all
to serve survival
and living.
(pg. 3)

6. Thread 4:
Persistent maladaptive procedural and
emotional memories form the core mech-
anisms that
underlie all
traumas, as
well as many
problematic
social and
relationship
issues.
(pg. 39)

7. Thread 5:
Traumatized individuals are stuck in a
chronic state of contraction. The body
has become the enemy. Through
pendulation – the
continuous, pri-
mary, organized
rhythm of expan-
sion and contrac-
tion, they can
become unstuck.
(pg. 55)

8. Thread 6:
The word aggression derives from the Latin
verb aggredi, which can mean – to have a
goal, to
approach,
to seize an
opportunity,
or to desire.
(pg. 56)

9. Thread 7:
All procedural memories with similar
elements and attendant states of con-
sciousness tend to merge into a composite
procedural
engram.
(pg. 63)

10. Thread 8:
Any therapist worth her fees not only recognizes
our primal capacity to meet adverse challenges,
but also understands that their primary role is
not to “counsel,”
“cure,” or “fix”
their clients, but
rather to support
this innate drive
for perseverance
and triumph.
(pg. 65)

11. Thread 9:
By stimulating the anterior insula in patients
with epilepsy neuroscientists were able to
evoke “ecstatic,
spiritual rapture.”
Patients who were
offered a cure for
the epilepsy, which
would end those
states, refused to
take the cure.
(pg. 70)

12. Thread 10:
Many of us cast people we encounter into
the different roles that we need in order to
replay the same
script again and
again. Like moods,
emotional scripts
cause us to mis-
perceive the
world.
(pg. 153)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/1NtYIpu
Slide 12 - http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/the-psychology-of-projection-in-conflict/
Slide 2 - https://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/interview-peter-levine
Slide 6 - http://bit.ly/1QwGHe7
Slide 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Normalized_Iteration_Count_Algorithm_2.png
Slide 11 - https://www.pinterest.com/luviart/spirituality/
Slide 10 - http://bit.ly/1QRyak6
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://neurosciencenews.com/memory-engrams-optogenetics-specific-brain-cells/
Slide 8 - http://confessionsofanadoptiveparent.com/seize-every-opportunity/
Slide 7 - http://bit.ly/1IfbqJK
Slide 4 - http://barelyablog.com/ramrodding-ron-paul-talk-to-the-hand-borger/

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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