Reversing the cognitive-emotional paradigm: Somatic Hypnotherapy and the primacy of bodily feelings.
Explore (New York, N.Y.) August 12, 2026 Alex V Priala
Contemporary approaches to emotional healing have predominantly emphasized cognitive and top-down processes. However, many traditional healing systems across cultures have long recognized the primacy of embodied, somatic experience in the restoration of well-being. This Perspective proposes a reversed paradigm: that feeling differently leads to thinking and reacting differently. Somatic...