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Being able to tame the Emotional Self leads to an overall calmness and clarity.

Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature

The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (New York: Basic Books/Perseus Book Group, 2000),

Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

subliminal reactions to the emotions,

Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power

All of the above practices, taken together, will help the person develop a strong, integrated ego. This includes developing a felt sense of her own core and her own self in the body. It also includes restoring the flow of life force within the body and establishing boundaries around the body.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

Dr. Peter Levine, a renowned trauma researcher, said, “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”

Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent

In Adlerian psychology, physical symptoms are not regarded separately from the mind (psyche). The mind and body are viewed as one, as a whole that cannot be divided into parts. Tension in the mind can make one’s arms and legs shake, or cause one’s cheeks to turn red, and fear can make one’s face turn white.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

This is where a bottom-up approach to therapy becomes essential. The aim is actually to change the patient’s physiology, his or her relationship to bodily sensations.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Broadly speaking, feeling is the perception of movement. If a person holds his arm absolutely immobile for five minutes, he will lose the feeling of his arm. He won't feel that he has an arm. The reader can experience this loss of sensation or feeling by letting his arm hang at his side without movement for five minutes or so. Similarly, if you put

Dr. Alexander Lowen M.D. • Fear of Life: The Wisdom of Failure

Learning to live through states of high arousal (no matter what their source) allows us to maintain equilibrium and sanity.