Der innere Bodyguard

"The inner bodyguard" by Katrin Jonas - an immediately applicable tool for self-help.
Our body is equipped with a sophisticated self-protection system that protects us from injuries of a mental or physical nature in challenging situations. This inner bodyguard is often life-saving.
But sometimes its mechanisms and reflexes become entrenched, then they remain active even though the threatening situation has long since passed. The body remains in alarm mode, harmonious processes of the central nervous system are blocked. Deep relaxation and inner peace find no place. If this state persists for a long time, chronic symptoms can develop.

This book shows how self-protection mechanisms that have become superfluous can be recognised and reduced. It shows how we can learn to live in harmony with our nervous system and achieve true self-security. This creates space for a life in which reflexive self-protection has its place, but no longer determines everyday life.
It underpins methods from somatics, hypnosis and de-hypnosis, trauma-sensitive work and meditation.