Sublime

but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

anything.For the great psychologist Carl Rogers, human optimality came from closing the gap of incongruence – between what a person is and could potentially be. According to Rogers, the ‘good life’ is lived by the ‘fully functioning person’:“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretchi

As a therapist, I have three sources of information: each client’s report, what happens in front of me in the room, and how I feel sitting with the client.

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.

It concerns a different kind of inward attention to what is at first sensed unclearly. Then it comes into focus and, through the specific internal movements I am about to present, it changes in a bodily way.

mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

We know already the two big questions we might ask ourselves when we are feeling mad, bad or sad: I am responsible for how I feel about external events. What am I doing to give myself this feeling? Is this thing that’s upsetting me something which lies under my control? If not, what if I were to decide it’s fine and let it go?

It’s important to spend this minute. The sense of rightness is not only a check of the handle. It is your body just now changing. As long as it is still changing, releasing, processing, moving, let it do that.

This bodily felt, more-than-verbal knowing allows new words to come from direct reference to the body-feeling: honoring it in its pre-articulate state as it were.