SomatoEmotional Release is the name given to a therapeutic process of releasing from the mind and body emotions that are associated with past trauma and negative experience. If a strong emotion(s) cannot be expressed at the time of the trauma it can be held in the tissue.
Emotional Release
Dr John Upledger, an osteopath and professor of bio-mechanics, and bio-physicist Dr Svi Karni carried out research at Michigan State University between 1975-1983, where they found that the energy of physical force and the emotion generated by psychological, physiological or spiritual trauma could become absorbed by the body, rather than discharged. In an effort to limit its disruptive influence on the normal bio-electric activity performing vital tasks, the body walled it off into as small an area as possible. This walled off area became known as an “energy cyst”.
While the body can and does adapt to the forces it is not able to release, this creates extra work for the body, and eventually it will become tired and weakened. Then there comes a time when it is unable to do any more adapting, and pain and dysfunction present as symptoms, sometimes years after the event that caused them.