Prosodic Vocalization

Prosodic vocalization (tone of voice, rhythm, pauses, intonation) plays a fundamental role in the emotional triggering of the somatic approach to trauma using the language of sensations as a medium. The sensations we describe are very clear bodily messages (heat, pain, stress, tremor, chills, expansion or constriction of breath, etc.) issued by the mammalian brain (which includes the autonomous nervous system that runs our vital functions). When we express those sensations verbally, we communicate with another area of our brain, the frontal cortex, that of reasoning and awareness.