the heart of things: understanding trauma - working with constellations by Broughton Vivian

Author:Broughton, Vivian [Broughton, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Green Balloon Publishing
Published: 2017-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

And what about oxytocin?

Oxytocin is a hormone that primarily acts on the brain. It is best known for its role in sexual reproduction, birth, bonding and mothering. It is released in very large amounts in the mother on the dilation of the cervix during labour and birth, and also during breast feeding, and is also in the child. It is sometimes referred to as the ‘love hormone’ since its primary function seems to be to do with bonding and trust, creating loving and affinity feelings and social activity. Experiments involving people sniffing oxytocin seem to demonstrate that it enhances people’s trust and ability to make eye contact. It is therefore associated with empathy, and is also thought to activate the mirror neurone system.

The existence of mirror neurones, oxytocin and limbic resonance presents us with intriguing additional possibilities for understanding our relationships, our interconnectedness and interdependence, our empathic and social ability. It also gives insight from a neurological perspective as to why some people lack empathy. However, we must always consider the question as to what, then, triggers such chemical and neurological differences, and is it sufficient to say that a person lacks empathy and is able to commit psychopathic crimes merely because of such chemical and neurological differences? Traumatic experiences unquestionably impact us neurologically, and trigger the release of vast amounts of some hormones and chemicals, and in the aftermath may, through the persistent stress of survival mode, continue the flood of these stress-associated chemicals into the system.

These phenomena also throw light on the process of the constellation, which I will discuss later. There are other ideas relating to our interconnectedness that emerge in a range of thinking from quantum physics, systems theories, complexity theory, the morphic resonance work of Rupert Sheldrake, and the ‘informational field’ work of Irvin Lazlo. The interested reader can find more about these topics in my previous book (Broughton, 2010).

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