Felt: How Lasting Change Happens

By Mr. Per Norrgren

What actually happens when the body and mind genuinely change?

Not what we hope happens, not what we are told happens - but what is actually occurring, at the neurobiological level, when something that was stuck becomes unstuck, when a nervous system that has been locked in threat finally begins to open.

This book answers that question.

Felt: How Lasting Change Happens is built on one of the most significant shifts in neuroscience of the past thirty years - predictive processing, the discovery that the brain is not a passive receiver of experience but an active prediction machine. It continuously generates expectations about the world, the body, and the self. And it updates those expectations only when the evidence is strong enough, specific enough, and delivered through the right channels.

Those channels run through the body. Not through argument, not through willpower, not through being told that things are different now. Through what is actually felt.

Drawing on the work of Jaak Panksepp, Karl Friston, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Stephen Porges among others, Felt traces the full architecture of lasting change - from the brain's deepest predictions about safety and belonging, through the eleven-component sequence of body-based practices that provide the precise corrective inputs those predictions require.

This is not a self-help book. It will not tell you what to do or promise transformation by chapter three. It is for the curious person, the practitioner, the teacher, or the researcher who has always suspected that the popular accounts of mindfulness, trauma, and healing were gesturing at something deeper without quite reaching it.

This is an attempt to reach it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVF2SX9S
• ISBN13: 9798254210269
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"