Aaron Hartman, MD explains how emotional avoidance and trauma block the body's ability to heal. He describes a triangle of health and argues that a dysregulated nervous system stops healing entirely. Re-regulating your nervous system and processing past trauma are required to restart the process.
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You can't heal what you hide. And what do most people hide? Their own emotional journey. There are three major areas or realms in which our body gets blocked in its self healing and self repairing mechanisms. I call this the triangle of health. And one of those major ones is the stress. That just doesn't include the daily stress, it includes trauma, things that happened in the past. And when your nervous system gets dysregulated or traumatized, your body's healing stops. A functional brain, a safe brain, a happy brain and nervous system that's called the parasympathetic nervous system is required for your body to self heal and self repair. So if your nervous system is dysfunctional, dysregulated, guess what? You won't get on your healing path. So work on your brain health. Re regulate your nervous system and use the tools we give you to get your body back on its healing path. Face it, healing is not just physical, it's also emotional. And get your emotional tools so you can get back on your self healing journey.