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addictions and afflictions (chronic illness and disease) are the same. Both are outer manifestations of an unintegrated charge
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
Regardless of how useful we find the results of therapeutic techniques, we see them as bandages for little rips here and there.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
There is no path toward oneself that leads away from the pain.
Gabor Maté • Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Repression—dissociating emotions from awareness and relegating them to the unconscious realm—disorganizes and confuses our physiological defences so that in some people
Gabor Maté M.D. • When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-disease Connection
Rage and anguish exist underneath the veneer of niceness, no matter how sincerely a person mistakes the facade for her true self.
Gabor Maté M.D. • When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-disease Connection
The m of DOPAMINE stands for mindfulness.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
These biological responses are adaptive in the emergencies for which nature designed them. But
Gabor Maté M.D. • When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-disease Connection
with her clients, she says, “three lacks” are typical—lack of control, identity, and self-worth—along with a need to numb pain. “In a relational world . . . the human psyche devises a brilliant means to emotionally survive,”