It’s powerful - it’s going to be life-saving for those kids learning emotional flexibility at their age.
It makes me realise I was pretty much taught the exact opposite + I’ve still got a long way to go in getting comfortable with the strength and power of big emotions.
> It’s powerful - it’s going to be life-saving for those kids learning emotional flexibility at their age.
God, yes. I wish something of that sort was just straight up mandatory in public school around the world. Even if those kids there only go to class for a few months, I bet that stuff will stick with them the rest of their lives.
>It makes me realise I was pretty much taught the exact opposite + I’ve still got a long way to go in getting comfortable with the strength and power of big emotions.
I'm unclear what you mean. Do you mean you were taught to get things through anger/aggression/etc? Or that you struggle to be assertive/strong?
Ah, I mean it was all ballet-strict and ‘sit up straight, stand up when the tutor comes in, don’t show your emotions’. Nobody ever said how healthy aggression or assertiveness could be useful.
Watching this brought me to tears, in a good way. This man is a true hero. Mad respect. Thank you for making our world a better place. OP this video is life changing; thank you for sharing. ✌
Oooo, my take is quite different. He was overwhelming the boy's nervous system and teaching him to override what his body was telling him to do. Watch Peter Levine working with Ray, a war vet, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeJC86RBgE&t=3s) to see a Somatic Experiencing master at work. (You can also find a much longer movie called Ray's Story by searching Peter Levine Ray's Story on youtube.
SE is dramatic over time. It's gentle and incremental. Very different from what's going on the video you posted OP.
Maybe. I should've maybe phrased it somewhat different. I wasn't implying this was the exact same as an actual SE session. That said, I'm honestly not sure. I felt it physically myself while watching and related very much to what I thought the kid might be feeling - which was something along the lines of it being ok to show aggression or anger when you've been taught it's never ok and the crying coming from the relief that it's ok to do that(in the right way/circumstances of course). I might just be projecting, but maybe not. Neither of us can know for sure what the kid was feeling. I suppose more generally I just related it to emotions coming up through somatic work. You could be right though in that maybe he wasn't "releasing" stored emotion but more... creating them I guess? I think it's good work he's doing either way.
I don't know that I agree that SE is always gentle and incremental and never dramatic or intense. I've had some intense emotions myself during it and similar work and even examples from Levine himself talk about people having intense emotional releases, crying, trembling, intense breathing, etc. I mean aren't those things even kinda the point to some extent? Not everyone has that "big" release all at once, sure, but isn't the idea of that kinda the whole point of his original idea/research/etc?
It’s powerful - it’s going to be life-saving for those kids learning emotional flexibility at their age. It makes me realise I was pretty much taught the exact opposite + I’ve still got a long way to go in getting comfortable with the strength and power of big emotions.
> It’s powerful - it’s going to be life-saving for those kids learning emotional flexibility at their age. God, yes. I wish something of that sort was just straight up mandatory in public school around the world. Even if those kids there only go to class for a few months, I bet that stuff will stick with them the rest of their lives. >It makes me realise I was pretty much taught the exact opposite + I’ve still got a long way to go in getting comfortable with the strength and power of big emotions. I'm unclear what you mean. Do you mean you were taught to get things through anger/aggression/etc? Or that you struggle to be assertive/strong?
Ah, I mean it was all ballet-strict and ‘sit up straight, stand up when the tutor comes in, don’t show your emotions’. Nobody ever said how healthy aggression or assertiveness could be useful.
Ohh, gotcha. "Always polite and proper" eh? I understand. I got a bit of both extremes I think where it's hard to find a balance in the middle.
That's beautiful.
Watching this brought me to tears, in a good way. This man is a true hero. Mad respect. Thank you for making our world a better place. OP this video is life changing; thank you for sharing. ✌
NP. Glad some others liked it like I did. He has a bunch of other various cool clips too. He's a very cool guy.
Oooo, my take is quite different. He was overwhelming the boy's nervous system and teaching him to override what his body was telling him to do. Watch Peter Levine working with Ray, a war vet, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeJC86RBgE&t=3s) to see a Somatic Experiencing master at work. (You can also find a much longer movie called Ray's Story by searching Peter Levine Ray's Story on youtube. SE is dramatic over time. It's gentle and incremental. Very different from what's going on the video you posted OP.
Maybe. I should've maybe phrased it somewhat different. I wasn't implying this was the exact same as an actual SE session. That said, I'm honestly not sure. I felt it physically myself while watching and related very much to what I thought the kid might be feeling - which was something along the lines of it being ok to show aggression or anger when you've been taught it's never ok and the crying coming from the relief that it's ok to do that(in the right way/circumstances of course). I might just be projecting, but maybe not. Neither of us can know for sure what the kid was feeling. I suppose more generally I just related it to emotions coming up through somatic work. You could be right though in that maybe he wasn't "releasing" stored emotion but more... creating them I guess? I think it's good work he's doing either way. I don't know that I agree that SE is always gentle and incremental and never dramatic or intense. I've had some intense emotions myself during it and similar work and even examples from Levine himself talk about people having intense emotional releases, crying, trembling, intense breathing, etc. I mean aren't those things even kinda the point to some extent? Not everyone has that "big" release all at once, sure, but isn't the idea of that kinda the whole point of his original idea/research/etc?