HEALTH & HEALIN G
MANY BODYWORKERS WOULD agree that healing occurs when the body releases a particular emotion that it has been storing in a particular body part. Yet the concept is rarely explained, and often goes entirely unquestioned. I think that it is very useful to understand what is happening at a physiological and emotional level, not just for the sake of comprehension, but also because knowing the mechanism is reassuring when one is embarking on a healing journey. Memory is a slippery thing because it
is so tied into emotion. The quintessential psychological truth about ‘remembering’ is that memories are stories we tell ourselves. Freud was perhaps the first to state this, but it has since been reconfirmed many times over by neuroscientists. Most relevant to me and other practitioners is that how we remember and how we re-experience our
Memory, emotion and the body
Memories are not stored in a particular part of the brain, but in the body or psyche as a whole; and memories are not fixed, objective realities, but selective, creative and linked to emotion. What does this mean for healing?
by Emma Michelle Dixon
memories (emotionally, physiologically) bodes much for the healing journey. Science tells us that memories are
not even stored in a particular part of the brain. You cannot, therefore, identify them as physiological events akin to lightning occurring in a particular location. We know this from the grisly experiments of experimental psychologist Karl Lashley who taught rats to find their way through a maze, then systematically removed various bits of their brains and re-tested them. They could find their way through the maze even after their cerebral cortices were nearly destroyed, until the rats had too little left of their brains to function at all. Not only is memory not stored in a
specific part of the brain, it is entirely relative. Memories which we recall are always recalled for their meaning or relevance to us at the moment in time when we remember.
The mind selects images, experiences, colours, and so on, in various combinations, to form a memory. It is a type of perception, which creates a gestalt—a functional unit, a set of beliefs.
Not only that, research has also shown that some element of emotion is necessary for the experience of remembering! Without a linked emotion, there is no memory. So, memories are not stored in a
particular part of the brain, but, it seems,
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