ANGER AS MEDICINE (Special topics lecture with Irene Lyon)

I love how you prepare people to watch your video, showing the viewer how they can pace themselves while they're watching your video. How insightful and thoughtful. How rare. Your material is so on point and so needed in this NOW moment of our Human Evolution. You're at the forefront. Thank you!

Been doing SBSM work nearly a year, now. This is the missing link, I believe, the lynchpin of missing information, among all the various healing practices that aim to restore human well-being. Anger, I’ve slowly become aware during my healing journey, is a constant in my body. I am so. Angry. All the time, it seems. And yet, on the surface, what people have consistently said to me since my teens, is; you’re so calm! That always puzzled me, even decades before I gained any awareness of the rage simmering within. Calm? It didn’t make any sense. I wasn’t consciously aware of how terrified and angry I was, but somehow, hearing people exclaim over what a “calm” person I am,…there was this huge, baffling disconnect. On some level, I knew it was the opposite of my truth. Of course, now, finally, I realize that what they perceived was profound freeze. It was something they sensed, and was so strong an impression they probably felt somewhat unsettled by it, but not having this information that Irene teaches, they had to process it as, “wow, what a preternaturally calm person this is”.

Your videos are like switching from a black and white tube TV to high definition color LCD TV. I was raised in the 60’s and taught the credo “children are seen, not heard.”. Thank you for putting your life changing videos on YouTube.

you are amazing!!!!! after having followed dr Levine for about one year I searched for a somatic therapist in Athens and started since last October!!! it is the most proactive, healthy, affectionate and forgiving thing I have ever done for myself❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for being so generous with your work to all the eager ears around the world ! blessings

This is such a rich topic we should all be discussing! As a woman who tests 10 out of 10 on the ACE test, was shut down my entire life, and as an adult sought healthy peaceful communities to feel held with safety. Unfortunately, I felt more shame as i am not called to forgive and move on, which is a mantra in many communities. Your words Irene, about building safely to the annihilation energy, feels so healthy! Brilliant work!

Excited for this one

ThANk YOU, Irene. This was the most validating video I’ve experienced. I laid down and so much energy moved through me while listening. I’ve been incredibly disconnected from my biological impetus my whole life. Addiction, self-loathing, powerlessness… all the things. Ayahuasca was the last straw that showed me my wounding. I’ve been integrating and learning so much the past three months. The deeper I go, the more “duh” it seems. Your wisdom is helping me connect so many dots. Shame and self-judgment are melting away. Compassion, focus and empowerment are taking its place. Thank you. Thank you! I especially connected to the definition of aggression, because I’ve always felt very disconnected from a sense of assertion and taking up space since my teen years. This is so powerful for all of humanity to learn. Deeply grateful for your devotion!

Irene, I happened to come across your lectures. My God, you are incredible!! I love what you are teaching us. Thank you so much ❤ xxx

Thank you for this! Im learning how to safely and healthily process anger. I do yoga and indoor walking exercises a few times per week to allow the energy to flow through my body otherwise i get so fatigued, stiff and get into crippling pain and have all sorts of body issues. However, if i do too much movement my nervous system goes into overdrive. So finding balance is key <3

This is what I know to be true. Thank you.

Anger…. Such a triggering topic. Possibly the reason i have had fibromyalgia most of my life and am a loner. Thank you Irene. I’m willing to learn about my hidden, stored anger but it scares me so much.

I think this is Irene's best video on anger. Love it.

TRE therapy has been very effective to help release trapped trauma, and suppressed emotions. But in addition to other recovery therapies like talk counseling and education w application... Rhythmic dance. Art therapy. Screaming in isolation. DBT. CBT Gaslighting work books. Boundary work. Reframe Therapy... And so much more. But in addition w other resources. Thanks for addressing thos exceedingly important topic. I've been a huge advocate of this work over 30 years and met w such resistance and abuse from society and even colleagues as a whole. .

As always, your videos are incredible. Thank you for the amazing work you do! 🙏🏻

This was such a helpful and important video for me to hear right now at this moment in my journey. So grateful for all of the resources you have out there in the world. Looking forward to doing more in the future when time and resources align with the programs you have created. Thank you Irene! 🙏🏼

Incredibly helpful.. actually bought tears to my eyes in places, my whole body feeling heard probably 🙂thank you so much ❤️

Thank you for this & the resources ❤ Re: Stretches, I think there are also different kinds of stretching. Stretching via movement, stretching via force, and stretching through relaxing. I think it's important to make those distinctions as each one has a very different effect on our bodies.

wow this is so refreshing to hear that these energies to feel them can be natural, kill energy if your hurt,,noone ever tells you that to feel like you wanan rebel fight back is actually natural this is refreshing to hear so thank you, im gonan read seths post about annihilation energy

Anger can be great if expressed appropriately.

Thank you Irene for this really important topic. I am one of those kids you refer to who grew up in a lot of adversity, which of course creates a pattern that continues throughout life, unless and until it is acknowledged and worked with. I've been on this healing journey for some time now (about 3yrs), but only around six months at the somatic/nervous system level. It is both the most difficult and at the same time most rewarding work I have ever undertaken. I am almost 49. I'd love to get everyone doing this work, but know that each one comes to it when they are ready. I realise the only one I can change is me and so am focused on doing that. Something much bigger than all of us is taking care of everything else, I believe. You and your team are playing a very important role in my journey and for that, I say thank you.