Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Now in 24 languages.Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

ISBN:	9781556432330
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Imprint:	North Atlantic Books
Published date:	29 Sep 1997
DEWEY:	616.8521
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Sales rank:	6892
Number of pages:	274
Weight:	442g
Height:	226mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	21mm

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