Sublime

there is a third choice: let the body feel whole and sound, don’t become the embodiment of your troubles, just have them in front of you.

Any analysis, however, even when it refrains from including the noölogical dimension in its therapeutic process, tries to make the patient aware of what he actually longs for in the depth of his being.

On the one end, you have fully reflexive agency in which you act spontaneously to satisfy your preferences, on the other end you have total obedience to some authority who tells you how to be happy, and in the middle is prompted agency.

The most basic skill needed by those who do the merging pattern is the ability to self-reference, that is, to feel the core of their own body and put their attention on it.

Somatics, as I often introduce it to students, is an awareness of the body as perceived by the self in this present moment. It hinges on proprioception through sensory motor awareness, internal dialogue, and the patience to abandon oneself to the present moment. One will not have the same sensations in an hour from now, this evening, tomorrow, or e

What makes therapy effective is deep, subjective resonance and that deep sense of truth and veracity that lives in the body.”

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