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In truth, it is the fear within which makes us susceptible to any sort of external assault.
Andreas Moritz • Lifting the Veil of Duality
If an emotion is the end product of an experience in the environment, it is the emotion that turns gene expression on or off.
Dr. Joe Dispenza • Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
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,
... See moreElizabeth Hopper • Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body
Clients’ aptitudes for pleasure, the second initial condition, vary widely, and develop in tandem with the skill of the practitioner for supportive attunement, the recognition of the emergence of such up and down cycles, and the ability to consistently reinforce these states.
Maurizio Stupiggia • Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
Western medicine, ranging from breath exercises (pranayama) and chanting to martial arts like qigong to drumming and group singing and dancing. All rely on interpersonal rhythms, visceral awareness, and vocal and facial communication, which help shift people out of fight/flight states, reorganize their perception of danger, and increase their
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
If the healing process can’t run to completion, the person’s nervous system is never able to relax all the way back down to the ground state, and their body continues to hold some chronic tension.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
If instead we look at repressed emotions, at the emotions that we don’t feel or complain about or even know we harbor, we have a very different approach that can finally make sense of the mindbody connection in hypertension, and offer new approaches to treatment. This understanding identifies the individual who feels the least emotion as the most
... See moreJohn E. Sarno • The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders
When this center is in balance, your creative energy flows easily and you are also grounded in your sexual identity.