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My trauma, my body, my integration—all are concepts stemming from the belief that you are this body-mind. Return to noticing how everything arises equally and effortlessly in this vast field of awareness, and allow infinite being to guide integration.
David Bingham • Effortless Being
For Winnicott health would always be characterized by spontaneity and intuition, ideas which barely figure in Freud or Klein. And he would particularly value ‘the feelings of those who do not much like thinking things out. They act best on intuition.’41
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
“Tell your clients, who were traumatized, that they should celebrate their body’s responses, even if the profound physiological and behavioral states that they have experienced currently limit their ability to function in a social world. They should celebrate their body’s responses, since these responses enabled them to survive. It saved their live
... See moreStephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
My thesis is that one can't overcome a problem that is part of one's personality. The key word in the statement is overcome. The attempt to do that turns one part of the self against the other; the ego, through the will, is set against the body and its feelings. Instead of harmony between these two antithetical aspects of human nature, a conflict i
... See moreDr. Alexander Lowen M.D. • Fear of Life: The Wisdom of Failure
Emotional Emotions: Adapt stress response. Conscious movement
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Breathwork
Harold T. Harper • 1 card
When we cannot rely on our body to signal safety or warning and instead feel chronically overwhelmed by physical stirrings, we lose the capacity to feel at home in our own skin and, by extension, in the world.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
In most cases, as neurofeedback training quiets fear, the symptoms of these disorders significantly diminish.
Sebern F. Fisher • Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain (10th Anniversary Edition)
Knowing includes a direct and clear ‘sensation’ that there is ‘no one’ here (as a fixation) in this openness.