{"id":2518,"date":"2014-11-19T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healwritenow.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2014-11-19T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:29:15","slug":"causing-hopefulness-part-2-im-learning-pat-ogden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healwritenow.com\/causing-hopefulness-part-2-im-learning-pat-ogden\/","title":{"rendered":"Causing Hopefulness: Part 2 of What I’m Learning from Pat Ogden"},"content":{"rendered":"

for Part 1 of What I’m Learning from Pat Ogden, go here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Implicit Self<\/span><\/h1>\n

The point it to figure out how to work with implicit self, because the implicit self is \u201creally the story teller, everything comes from there,\u201d said Pat Ogden (and then she mentioned the work of Allan Schore (more of his work on implicit self).<\/a><\/p>\n

She spoke of the \u201cimplicit self: which is\u00a0right brain mediated, not described in language, it’s powerfully effective, it’s dominant in behavior over first two years of life” (the time pre-language).<\/p>\n

People show symptoms rather than tell a story, not only with trauma but for all of us when it comes to our early attachment imprints and pre-verbal life, she said.<\/p>\n

What was happening to your body, in your body during your first two years of your life? What were your caregiver experiences and what was communicated to and through you as a newborn, baby and toddler before words? For some, this is a time of being cherished, nurtured, responded to and adored. Others are in orphanages or with teenage parents overwhelmed, poor and who didn’t have such positive implicit experiences themselves. This is not insignificant and is what I keep thinking about since listening to Ogden. <\/em><\/p>\n

What might your body have captured and recorded and learned, pre-language, in those years that are still alive and not past in the way you move in the world and with others?<\/span>\"photo<\/em><\/h2>\n

She gave \u201cheartbreaking\u201d example of a man in his 50’s who had never had a relationship or been sexually intimate and he didn’t know why -not really. She spoke of his \u201cincredible armoring\u201d and how it\u00a0must “stem from early trauma\u201d though the trauma he remembered was at age 14.<\/p>\n

She said that what came up in session with him, while doing a gesture with hand and arm, of going from his heart and to world, very soft and loving, that just making the gesture terrified him.<\/p>\n

She said, for the man, she said,\u00a0just to reach out to someone else, “which of course we do in relationships, it’s tender,” and because of his trouble doing it\u00a0–\u00a0“we can speculate the last time he had that kind of openness he must have been deeply frightened.”<\/p>\n

Doesn’t it make you just want to hold that man and let him know people can be good and love can be warm and kind? Not to save or rescue him but just to let him know and to show him? It makes me want to do that. And with myself as well to remind myself over and over and over again, like Maggie, the yoga teacher reminding us students that all is o.k. in our world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Procedural Memory<\/span><\/h1>\n

Procedural memory,\u00a0 Ogden said,\u00a0is \u201chow we do, more than what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

She spoke of Body-Mind Centering <\/a>and the\u00a0work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen<\/strong> who talks about\u00a0basic movements such as these:<\/p>\n