Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?! Chapter 900: 721: Body Stimulation Awakening Method and Dual

Capítulo 900: Chapter 721: Body Stimulation Awakening thod and Dual Attention Technique

The [Body Stimulation thod] in psychological consultation generally refers to all techniques that use physical sensations to intervene in psychological states.

The traditional [Body Stimulation thod] includes but is not limited to mobilizing the “sense of temperature” through cold and heat, the “tactile sense” through grabbing and holding, and the “proprioception” through pulling and stretching, to redirect the individual’s attention from chaotic thoughts or painful mories back to the “here and now” physical sensations. This interrupts uncontrollable states like dissociation, panic, or emotional flashbacks.

The [Grounding Technique] previously taught by Nan Zhubin is an extension of the principles of body stimulation.

Among the nurous body stimulations, “pain stimulation” is the most unique.

Pain is the body’s most primitive, high-priority alarm signal.

When an individual is in deep dissociation or severe numbness, mild stimulations like deep breathing or cold water often fail to work. Pain, however, can bypass the cognitive center, directly activate the nervous system, and forcibly establish the visitor’s connection with reality, becoming an important spiritual anchor in emotional first aid.

However, Nan Zhubin was very cautious when imparting the [Body Stimulation Awakening thod], which is actually a [Pain Stimulation Awakening thod], to Chen Lizhou.

Whether in psychological consultation or the field of psychological treatnt, the use of psychological techniques related to “pain” must be approached with great caution.

Although the characteristics of pain stimulation make the related techniques strong and effective, they also cause many hidden dangers—

First of all, the danger of pain stimulation lies in the ambiguity of technical boundaries. For instance, the “pinching the tiger’s mouth” pain stimulation technique taught by Nan Zhubin is intended to use mild pain to adjust emotions; yet in extre emotional crises, it is very likely to evolve into self-harm.

Like drug addiction, when the visitor discovers that bodily “pain” can avoid psychological tornt, a sense of dependency may arise. Eventually, it turns into a vicious cycle of using physical pain to cover up ntal pain.

More importantly, the pain threshold changes, and a person’s tolerance for pain can be trained.

As the individual’s tolerance for pain grows stronger, the pain stimulation required to awaken the body will also increase.

Pain is fundantally a vital self-protection function of the body.

When the visitor develops a reliance on pain stimulation and uses it frequently, it could potentially evolve into self-injury or even unintentional—suicide.

This is the most crucial point to pay attention to.

Secondly, for the visitor, excessive dependence on pain stimulation will interfere with deep trauma processing, making visitors accustod to using “pain interruption” to avoid suffering, leading to trauma mories never being digested.

For psychological consultation, “trauma avoidance” significantly disrupts the consultation progress.

Besides this, there are many other drawbacks. For example, improper use of pain stimulation in a dissociated state could cause accidental harm due to distorted perception or trigger trauma-related pain mories, deepening [Dissociation].

Etc.

Therefore, the teaching of pain stimulation-related skills must undergo a strict evaluation by the consultant or therapist, with clearly defined boundaries, and explore gentler alternative solutions first, only cautiously using them when necessary.

However, in the present case of Chen Lizhou, it was after Nan Zhubin’s thorough evaluation that the [Pain Stimulation Awakening thod] was deed suitable.

Despite the nurous drawbacks of the [Pain Stimulation Awakening thod].

Firstly, the core issue for Chen Lizhou at this mont is [Personality Dissociation], which has already developed to a significant level of [Personality Dissociation].

This is a psychological disorder that generates bodily reactions, affecting the physiological state.

When a patient with [Personality Dissociation] falls into a complete loss of perception of reality in a [Dissociation] state, the prefrontal cortex responsible for rational thinking in the brain is inhibited, rendering any complex cognitive reconstruction techniques ineffective due to the lack of a cognitive carrier;

At the sa ti, mild body stimulations like “deep breathing” and “touching a warm cup” fail due to insufficient intensity to penetrate the [Dissociation] state.

In the case of Chen Lizhou, when dismantling machinery, touching various plastic and tal parts is itself a series of tactile stimuli. The body stimulations included in traditional [Grounding Technique] are not necessarily more than those Chen Lizhou spontaneously encounters in a [Dissociation] state.

Under such circumstances, for Chen Lizhou, pain stimulation as a primitive bodily alarm signal is the only thod to bypass his ineffective cognitive center and forcibly establish a connection with his body.

This is the first point.

The second point is that Chen Lizhou’s current work environnt demands strict concealnt of intervention thods.

The social function of the visitor is a factor that consultants must consider. When Chen Lizhou enters a [Dissociation] state in an open office or serious business environnt, he is certainly unable to use conspicuous techniques.

We can’t have Chen Lizhou suddenly pull out a basin of cold water and splash it on his face, or suddenly stand up and loudly describe the environnt, or engage in vigorous movent, or even seek calming from others while discussing work, can we?

That would make the scene extrely bizarre.

The “pinching the tiger’s mouth” [Pain Stimulation Awakening thod] taught by Nan Zhubin is a completely discreet intervention that can be perford under the table or in one’s pocket, unnoticed by anyone.

This is the second point.

And the third and final point is that the situation for Chen Lizhou at this mont is indeed less than optimistic.