Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
The INFJ’s auxiliary function is extraverted feeling, one of the main reasons we are so brilliant at ferreting out and addressing the emotions of others. However, introverted feeling is one of our shadow functions, which means that sometimes we’re not so hot at recognizing and identifying our own emotions, or dealing with them. In addition to this,
... See moreLauren Sapala • The INFJ Revolution
In the camps, survivors:
• Imagined teaching others about their experience
• Found beauty in small moments
• Helped fellow prisoners
"Everything can be taken except one freedom:
To choose one's attitude in any circumstance." https://t.co/mxxSkvzXEr
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I also love that self-care is care for all. I think that one is pretty straightforward. If I’m showing up cared for, if I’m showing up embodied and at ease, that’s the energy that I’m bringing to the room and that’s the kind of experience that I’m going to illuminate for others.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Frightened adults respond to the same comforts as terrified children: gentle holding and rocking and the assurance that somebody bigger and stronger is taking care of things, so you can safely go to sleep.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Now, think of a specific person, place, or thing in your life that you wish were different, that you want to change. Could you welcome whatever feeling is engendered by it as it is? Allow it fully. Could you let go of wanting to change it? Would you? When? Now how do you feel? Is there any more of the feeling of wanting to change the way this
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