Sublime

No person is free who is tied to a defensive position. This is true of the neurotic character who erects psychological walls and armors himself muscularly as a protection against possible hurt, only to find that the hurt he feared is locked into his being by this very process.

the “death instinct,” which he saw as a “compulsion inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things.”

When one stops struggling against fate, one loses his neurosis (internal conflict) and gains peace of mind.

When guilt or shame are attached to feelings, the conflict is internalized and creates a neurotic character.

Emotional pain stems from the body’s contraction in response to the loss or disruption of a loving connection.

Moshe Feldenkrais claimed there is no such thing as an isolated emotion, thought, movement or sensation. Each mental output will always involve elements of the other three, so every thought has an associated movement, sensation and emotion; every emotion has a related movement, sensation, and thought, and so on.