All memos tagged #emotional-release-lexicon

Interpretation is explaining what a release means; in this practice the practitioner stays out of it. In Emotional Release the person's story, if any, is theirs. Bodyworkers are not licensed...

Reorienting is the time taken before leaving the table after emotion has moved. It is not Orienting, which is looking around as a start. In Emotional Release after tears or shaking the person sits,...

Referral is the honest move when material belongs in mental-health care rather than on the table. It is distinct from the sports Referral Rule and from a Travell map. In Emotional Release bodyworkers...

Stay with it is the cue to keep feeling a sensation rather than analyze it, the same Tracking used in Somatic Practice. In Emotional Release the invitation is sensation, not story. If staying floods,...

Containment is the ability to feel something without being flooded by it. In Emotional Release the session stays inside that ability. Titration and the option to stop protect it. It is not a...

Pause is the option, always available, to stop. In Emotional Release the person can stop mid-tear, mid-tremor, mid-sentence. The table waits. A pause is not a failure of the work. Forcing through a...

Catharsis is a large emotional discharge; never the goal and never forced. In Emotional Release a big cry or shake can happen. It is not proof the session worked, not a treatment, and not something...

Consent check is the practitioner asking before continuing when emotion surfaces. In Emotional Release the person can say no. Continuing without asking is how people leave worse. It is not a legal...

Somatic memory is the body carrying the imprint of an experience without a clear story attached. In Emotional Release a sensation may arrive without a narrative. The practitioner does not invent the...

The Emotional Release Glossary collects the terms used when Emotional Release appears in a Somatic Realignment Therapy session note, defined in plain language for clients; the process is...