Heres the key insight if you want results:
Understanding alone is useless when it comes to therapy. You can meditate for hours, read books and psychoanalyse your patterns till the sun goes up - it will not make you less triggered (Trust me, I tried!)
Often it will just feed your mind more reasons to try to suppress what you feel, because now your mind can tell your heart “its just a pattern from childhood, you shouldn’t be sad or angry”.
Matters of the heart are healed in the heart - not in the mind. Hence the saying: Feel it to heal it.
The purpose of therapy should therefore be to reach bodily sensations and emotional releases. Luckily, there are many methodologies with this essential understanding, listed below.
(The descriptions are from chatgpt)
A body-centered trauma therapy focusing on releasing stored survival energy from the nervous system. It teaches the body to complete unfinished stress cycles gently, restoring regulation, resilience, and emotional balance without reliving the original trauma story.
Uses breath, sound, and focused touch to soften “armor” held in muscles, fascia, and energy channels. The aim is to release tension and emotional pain stored in the body, restoring flow, sensitivity, and deep relaxation.
Powerful methods using breathing with evocative music to reach non-ordinary states of consciousness. They allows spontaneous emotional release, insight, and healing through the body’s innate intelligence rather than guided cognition.