Sublime

Let your body return to its natural state—which is perfect. The body can feel completely at ease and natural every moment. Just let it.

Response flexibility harnesses the power of the middle prefrontal region to put a temporal space between input and action. This ability to pause before responding is an important part of emotional and social intelligence.

A felt sense is a fresh, immediate, here-and-now experience that is actually the organism forming its next step in the situation the person is living in.

The healthy ego—what Freud called “a coherent organization of mental processes”—is the part of us that can observe self, situations, and persons; assess them; and…

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Allow even a very little shift to have its full minute or so.

(to some degree) but not to inner feelings and needs. The emotionally present therapist must be attuned to both.

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.

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.

“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.” With the individuals that I work with, we’ve even given this search for space a name: creating the ability to have a calm conversation.