What is one man’s and one woman’s love and desire, against the history of the world, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species?
A little thing.
But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery.
… (we) Use titration to create increasing stability, resilience and organization. Titration is about carefully touching into the smallest “drop” of survival-based arousal, and other difficult sensations to prevent retraumatization. I use the term “titration” to denote the gradual, stepwise process of trauma renegotiation.
The delay between thought and action is the basis for awareness.
Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and AWARENESS is the key to learning.
The antidote for trauma is to create new experiences in the body that contradict helplessness and collapse.
The balanced attention to sensation, feelings, cognition and élan vital (life-energy) remains the emergent therapeutic future for transforming the whole person.
The inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy objective for the individual.
The function of the nervous system is to perceive the environment and coordinate the behavior of all the other cells in the vast cellular community.
Having awareness … just means realizing what exists and what’s possible – without judgement. Awareness doesn’t need defending.
See in the raindrop, the storm, all nature, and even in those ugly things in people’s lives, the desire for expression rather than the hate and turmoil and the disorders. For all are seeking expression.