Sublime

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

““Why do so many people have difficulty in breathing fully and easily? The answer is that breathing creates feelings, and people are afraid to feel. They are afraid to feel their sadness, their anger, and their fear.””

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.

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

Strangely, through the acceptance of failure, we become free from our neurosis.

The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.