Introduction to Somatic Healing
Somatic healing works by helping your nervous system complete the processes that long-term symptoms, stress and trauma often interrupt. You learn to focus on the subtle internal signals your body is sending; sensations, impulses, micro-movements, breath shifts, tapping into the instinct your system has to orient, settle, and discharge. When these signals are given space and support, the body can release stored survival energy, re-establish a sense of safety, and return to regulation. This approach is precise, and deeply effective; it uses the innate capacity your system has to re-organise itself from the inside out.
Somatic Healing for Chronic Health Conditions
This is powerful healing modality for people living with chronic health conditions, because it means change doesn’t depend on willpower, positive thinking, or perfect understanding. Your system doesn’t need you to “figure it out”; it needs the right conditions. Somatic healing works directly with the your instinctive pathways, which is often exactly what chronic symptoms have been waiting for. It offers a way to shift patterns that talking alone can’t reach, making recovery possible even when the mind feels overwhelmed or stuck. In my work, I combine this approach with other tools (brain rewiring, cognitive reframing, and emotional healing) so that your system can move toward regulation from multiple angles, steadily and sustainably.
When the Mind Wants Proof
During a session recently, someone I was working with experienced noticeable shifts in real time during a somatic practice; her breath changed, her body softened, symptoms eased, and thoughts that had been loud moments before began to quiet.
Afterward she quietly said, shaking her head: “I don’t understand this. How is this working?”
It was an honest question. Because when you step into somatic healing, the mind often doesn’t “get it,” so can have a lot of questions and doubt.
Why the Mind Wants an Explanation
The mind LOVES explanations. It loves logic, clear steps, certainty, and control. When it can’t make sense of something, it often tries to invalidate the experience:
“That couldn’t have been real.”
“How do I know this is working?”
“If I don’t understand it, maybe nothing is happening.”
The mind also does not love to be left out! Somatic healing does this – it bypasses the mind – somatic work doesn’t need to be “understood”; it works through real-time experience; the body shifts before the mind catches up.
The mind’s questions often come from one place: fear.
Understanding becomes a strategy to control the experience.
Control is a strategy to avoid uncertainty.
Uncertainty feels threatening when your system has been living in survival mode.
Somatic healing is created through felt shifts.
What Real-Time Change Looks Like
The nervous system shifts quietly during somatic healing work. During a somatic practice, you may notice:
yawning, trembling, tummy rumbling, shivers or goosebumps, gas release, tears that appear, a reduction in symptoms, a spontaneous breath you didn’t choose
These are signs of your system discharging, unwinding, reorganising, and resetting.
Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Begin Practising This Yourself
If you feel ready, I have a library of free somatic tools here in the resources of this website; practices designed to help you tune into these shifts safely and steadily.
🌸 Start with Havening Technique: a soothing, grounding technique that regulates the nervous system and disrupts fear-based patterns.
🌸 Explore the EFT practice if your condition is moderate: it includes both EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and guided language to rewire your brain, release fear, and support recovery.
With warmth and care,
Amari 💗
