Chunk 6

The text explains that healing doesn't occur solely through understanding patterns but involves the nervous system and past experiences. Triggers persist due to stored responses, not just awareness. Healing requires repetition of safety, staying present, and letting good things happen. Rushing healing backfires, resistance isn't failure but protection. Inviting the body into healing involves noticing sensations, breathing through discomfort, and reassuring without shaming. It suggests slowly loosening one's armor of protection to allow for healing. If you've ever thought, I understand my pattern, so why do I still react this way? This section is for you. Because healing doesn't happen through insight alone. It happens through the nervous system. Your body doesn't speak logic. Your nervous system doesn't respond to affirmation. It responds to experience. It remembers when love disappeared, when safety was inconsistent, and when calm preceded chaos. So when things feel good now, your body braces. Not because you're self-sabotaging, but because it learned to prepare. Why triggers persist even after awareness. Triggers aren't thoughts, they're stored responses. And stored responses don't dissolve just because you understand them. They dissolve through repetition of safety, through staying present in moments where you once fled, through letting good things be good. Safety is a somatic experience. Security is not something you think yourself into. It's something your body learns slowly, through consistency, through predictability, and through repair. This is why rushing healing backfires. Why resistance isn't failure. If your body resists closeness, resists peace, resists slowing down, that's not weakness. That's protection. And protection deserves respect. Inviting the body into healing. Instead of forcing yourself to be secure, you invite your system. You notice sensations, you breathe through discomfort, you reassure without shaming. That's how safety is built. Here's a powerful reframe. What if your fear of healing isn't fear of being healthy, but fear of being without your armor? That armor once saved you. Thank it. Then slowly loosen it. You don't rush embodiment, you allow it.