… Get them up and dance.
Research shows that dance, drumming, singing, walking and other rhythm-based movements can help reduce toxic stress associated with trauma, mental and physical abuse.
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“I LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT!”
If you’ve watched “Madagascar,” you’re sure to have seen King Julien leading the jungle in a rousing chant of “I Like to Move It, Move It” while doing just that.
It turns out King Julien was onto something. More and more researchers are studying the healing power of rhythmic movement on people who’ve experienced trauma from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), such as abuse, neglect, or parental mental illness or substance abuse issues.
Children with developmental trauma can lose their ability to think when they feel threatened.
This is because their fight-flight alarm goes off, and stress chemicals quickly shut down their thinking brain (frontal cortex) as well as their emotional brain (limbic brain).
All that’s left working is the primitive brain. Fortunately, it responds well to rhythm. Rhythm is regulating.
The only way to move from super-high anxiety states to calmer, more cognitive states, is rhythm.
So get dancing!
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