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“But there is certainly more than one kind of attention, not all of which are mindful. Scattered attention is distracted and restless. Focused attention is narrow and sharp. Vigilance, an attention-like factor, guards against distraction. Panoramic attention is open and diffuse. And somatic attention, the kind emphasized in this book, engages and even emerges from the body.”
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
“the brain’s innate physical structure and two separate, specialized hemispheres facilitate left brain-right brain disconnection under conditions of threat. Capitalizing on the tendency of the left brain to remain positive, task-oriented, and logical under stress, these writers hypothesized that the disconnected left brain side of the personality stays focused on the tasks of daily living, while the other hemisphere fosters an implicit right brain self that remains in survival mode, braced for danger, ready to run, frozen in fear, praying for rescue, or too ashamed to do anything but submit.”
― Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
― Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
“Naturalness has something to do with our wildness, beyond the civilizing influences of the everyday mind. The everyday mind fabricates. It plans. It manages. It interprets and seeks meaning. Its energy is tight. Naturalness is the part of the self that is unconstructed, spontaneous, free, unmade, and without plans or agendas. It is a part of you that is at ease in your own skin, and it does not resist being present. This part of you is aligned with the realm of the body and can be felt there. The body is, after all, an animal.”
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
“All the tension and darkness of our embodied life is held in a scaffolding of balance and symmetry, a natural order that is hard to see, like the ocean’s turbulence is held by its depths.”
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
― The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom
“What makes earned secure attachment unique, however, is its correlation with parenting that promotes secure attachment in the next generation (Roisman et al., 2002). This research challenges the prevailing view that suboptimal attachment in the parent generation predicts the likelihood of providing less-than-optimal attachment experiences for the next generation. Instead, it suggests that human beings can transform the implicit memories and explicit narrative of the past by internalizing healthy adult attachment experiences until they achieve the benefits conferred by secure attachment. The fact that earned secure attachment transmits the ability to offer the same to the next generation is a hopeful sign. It implies that we can help our clients bring a stop to the intergenerational legacy of trauma in their families and create a new legacy through the intergenerational transmission of secure attachment.”
― Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
― Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
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