Sublime

my ability to dance and move, my ability to visualize, or the creativity of the force behind the symptom. We all fear our symptoms and want to heal them. We go to all kinds of healers, not realizing that our worst problem is not the sickness, but that we are hypnotized by culture into believing that what we experience is bad and has to be repressed

Asking questions about our client’s cognitive, somatic, or emotional experience invites her into the present moment.

If you are afraid of someone who is angry, then, once they’re in touch with it, ask them to stop moving and visualize it or hit a pillow or make angry sounds.

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,

Because the mono-mind view is so ubiquitous and assumed in our culture, we never really question the truth of it.

to show how magic arises from believing that the seeds of life lie in the unexpected, indeed, in the trouble and garbage that we throw away.

Whenever you get into an unoccupied channel, soon enough the figure at the edge comes up, and we wander back and forth between normal and altered states.

As you learn the technique of pivoting, you will over time reprogram the neurological patterns stored in your amygdala.

Somatic Experiencing developed by Peter Levine, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden, and the work of Bessel van der Kolk.