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The Oracle Within
There are times in my clinical work when I’ll meet with someone who is really suffering, but they can’t actually feel that pain. They’re not able to make contact with the felt quality of the open wound.
Instead, there’s a protective numbing, a dissociative shut down and collapse into the somatic unconscious. From here, the lost orphans of psyche and soma burn, ache, and long for holding.
Trauma is the experience of de-linking — left and right, top and bottom, limbic and cortical, body and mind — and linkage occurs through the felt sense of safety.
The psyche will reassemble when it feels safe.
— Matt Licata
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One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in one’s nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing.
— Jane Bowles
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I found that the cells that make up the body, and there are 50 trillion of them, are very intelligent. In fact, it’s the intelligence of the cells that create the human body. Starting to listen to them and understanding how they communicate is a very important lesson. Cells talk to us. And, we can feel it through what we call symptoms or feelings or emotions. It’s a response of the cellular community to what we’re doing in our lives.
