Sublime

Any analysis, however, even when it refrains from including the noölogical dimension in its therapeutic process, tries to make the patient aware of what he actually longs for in the depth of his being.

We concluded that Beecher’s speculation that “strong emotions can block pain” was the result of the release of morphinelike substances manufactured in the brain. This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.17

When a person is distressed, standard therapy tries to figure out what makes something so disturbing, and what you can do to change it. Most therapies downplay or ignore the shifts in people’s inner sensory world that carry the essence of the organisms’ responses: the emotional states that are imprinted in the state of the body’s chemical profile,

Enlivening processes are those that invite and allow aliveness and energy to move through the soma.

Adlerian psychology is a form of thought, a philosophy that is diametrically opposed to nihilism. We are not controlled by emotion. In this sense, while it shows that ‘people are not controlled by emotion’, additionally it shows that ‘we are not controlled by the past’.

An example is provided by one of the best types of therapy for depression, Behavioral Activation (BA).14

Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.

“With neurofeedback we hope to intervene in the circuitry that promotes and sustains states of fear and traits of fearfulness, shame, and rage. It is the repetitive firing of these circuits that defines trauma.”