Postural Collapse

A post on thread in Deep Adaptation Forum about “What is Collapse?”

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My very serious focus is on what I call postural collapse. This means the collapse of our structure. In the fight, flight and play dead spectrum of the defense cascade when we are overwhelmed we collapse. Even a small amount of trauma can induce collapse in our structure. This is one way to look at it but collapse is not just something we do passively as a maladaptive response to trauma. We also actively push each other down through the power relations we have in society. We tell people to sit down and shut up all the time. We repress each other and hurt each other and deny people what they need to be healthy and happy.
The great joy and miracle is not about collapse but about the beauty of our structure. We now have the fascial and synergistic anatomical science to describe how this works. What if we stood up to our oppressors—to the people and social forces and to our own fears? What if we knew how to restore our structure? Wouldn’t that be a kind of radical but peaceful revolution from within? This is what I teach about at threebonestheory.com and in my group Prosocial Embodiment.

https://community.deepadaptation.info/t/adaptation-to-collapse-but-collapse-of-what/3320/26?u=musclemonk