Pendulation: How to Shift Focus To Calm Overwhelm

There are many roads that can help us go from being stuck to in flow, and one of them is a principle and practice called pendulation. This term was popularized by the founder of Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, to describe a way of teaching, and being with, an intense experience in the body, like a painful sensation, and then moving the focus and attention to somewhere that is less painful, as a way to dis-arm the intensity of the painful sensation. The goal is to learn how to move between two opposing states so that the charge in your system can lessen, and the person can experience a little more flow and freedom in their system. Peter once said to us in a class: “Pain is trapped sensation.” From my professional and personal experience, this is true, and this means that in order to lessen and release the pain, we must learn to move our sensations, and more importantly, we need to BE with them and befriend them. Learning how to pendulate between things that feel bad to things that feel less bad, or maybe better or pleasant, is an important somatic skill to practice, especially when we’re easily hijacked by chronic pain and over-thinking, as an example. In this week’s vlog, I dive into this topic and give you some concrete examples of how one might work with this concept of pendulation. ENJOY!


Resources I mention during this video:


► What do you do when you have unresolved trauma - two types of orienting: https://irenelyon.com/2019/09/09/what...


►How To Live Longer with Less Sickness. PART 1: Stop Scaring Yourself:
https://irenelyon.com/2017/01/11/live...


►The Goldilocks Nature of Cortisol:
https://irenelyon.com/2017/01/20/live...


►How to Live Longer with Less Sickness PART 3: 7 Ways To Become Your Own Medicine:
https://irenelyon.com/2017/01/25/live...


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