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Found a couple articles criticizing the pseudoscientific and irresponsible nature of Bessel van der Kolk's claims about the existence of body memories and what they mean for our health.
Your Body Is Not Keeping The Score
The Body Does Not Keep the Score: How Popular Beliefs About Trauma Are Wrong
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I've started telling myself "this is my body remembering my trauma. It's a memory. Right now I am safe and my body is safe." when I have body memory flashbacks.
🌀The Body Learns Before the Mind
Before you start: The cadence of this writing is intentionally lulling and immersive. Some readers describe it as trance-like. If you tend to drift, take a moment to anchor yourself first.
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Watch a musician play — hands moving over strings or keys without thought, or at least, that’s what you think. The body moves by itself. It remembers.
That’s how conditioning works — like Pavlov’s dogs, salivating before the food arrives. A hypnotic subject learns too. The body begins to expect trance, and more importantly — it remembers.
The rush of dopamine, the sweet euphoria of losing control, the thrill of being taken over — when another voice becomes the mind’s gravity.
So the body learns. We have memory. Echoes of what was once experienced. Until one day, a simple word — drop — and you fall even before it’s spoken in that tone.
The body relaxes first. Then the mind follows. A beautiful dissociation. The trance of flesh, the trance of thought. Heartbeat slowing, breath deepening, and in the silence between two words —
drop. deeper. drop now. and the body keeps dreaming long after the voice fades
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Worn shoes are medals written in scuffs and salt, they petition the floor with a patient, softened edge. Her body practices being a memory of movement, and the mind drafts the sequence before the foot remembers.
I have a feeling you got everything you wanted
And you're not wasting time stuck here like me
You're just thinking it's a small thing that happened
The world ended when it happened to me
~ Sydney Rose - We Hug Now
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Body Memory – The term refers to body sensations that symbolically or literally captures some aspect of the trauma. Sensory impulses are recorded in the parietal lobes of the brain, and these remembrances of bodily sensations can be felt when similar occurrences or cues re-stimulate the stored memories.(Lenore Terr, M.D., personal correspondence, 31 August 1994).
First snow of Winter I'm walking hills and valleys Adore this mystical fog! This fucking mist! These cliffs are just showing off!
Then the body memory kicks in I mime my home mountains The moss that I'm made of I redeem myself
I've been wrestling my fate Do I accept this ending? Will I accept my death Or struggle claustrophobic? Fought like a wolverine With my destiny Refuse to accept what was meant to be
Then the body memory kicks in And I trust the unknown Unfathomable imagination Surrender to future
Oh, how to capture all this love And find a pathway for it Like threading an ocean through a needle River through a keyhole Can't fathom the grasp I can't grasp the fathom
Then my body memory kicks in My limbs and tongue take over Like the ancestors before me Show me the flow
My sexual DNA X-rays of my Kama Sutras Summons different bodies Compares spines and buttocks And back of necks
Then my body memory kicks in It simply takes over Bestiality I redeem my body
I wasn't born urban Toxic doesn't agree with me Love lured me here Into a stagnant state My myths, my customs, ridiculed Vacuum packed molecules
Then my body memory kicks in On this Brooklyn dance floor Sweating with these rhythms Rotate this matrix
All trapped in legal harness Kafkaesque Farce like patriarchy Avoided to confront it
Then the body memory kicks in My warrior awakens My turn to defend Urban didn't tame me
Then my body memory kicks in All bosoms and embraces Oral, anal entrances Enjoy the satisfaction If the other is growing
— Body Memory, Björk
The first thing that made me suspicious about the body memories is how it sounds like another way to convince whoever you want of whatever you want. I don't fucking trust anything that lets somebody say some shit like "you have chronic stomach aches, so your stomach is probably remembering when the satanic cult made you eat raw kitten livers" like this is something to take very seriously. I don't fucking trust anything that would let some "expert" position themself as an expert on my mind or body with some unfalsifiable assertion.
