The Significance of Emotional Embodiment for Health

Dr. Raja Selvam is a clinical psychologist who has been teaching worldwide for 25 years. His method is based on new scientific paradigms of embodiment of perception, emotions, and behaviors in cognitive psychology and affective neurobiology. His book, which has just been published in Poland, can be read as both a textbook and a valuable guide not only for therapists.

Peter A. Levine, PhD, reviewing it, called it "a unique synthesis in which Raja Selvam, with academic precision and a great gift for reflection, takes us on an extraordinary journey, examining the structures and role that emotions play in our brain and body and how they affect health and illness." It's not just a review of scientific concepts, methods, or techniques; it also includes examples of therapy and its results, and above all, moving stories about people seeking help. Maggie Klein, a respected child trauma therapist, wrote in her review that this is a book perfectly suited to our times.

And a short quote:

"When emotions become more accessible, we can better appreciate the significance of certain situations in our lives. When emotions become more bearable through the process of embodiment, we feel we could more easily survive a difficult emotion, such as one related to heartbreak, if such a thing were to happen to us again. In such a situation, we don't have to close ourselves off from others, avoid relationships, or engage only half-heartedly. We can reach a state where we sense that our work with a particular emotion has been completed, and we can say, for example: 'This loss no longer haunts me.' If an emotion is experienced only as a difficult state inside the body, one can pay attention to it without developing secondary, unwanted reactions to the emotional experience. This refers to, for example, fruitless cognitive conclusions like 'I don't deserve love' or self-destructive behavioral reactions like 'I need to drink to escape this pain'."