This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

– John Cleese –

I noticed years ago that when people (myself definitely included) are anxious they tend to busy themselves with irrelevant activities, because these distract from and therefore reduce their actual experience of anxiety. To stay perfectly still is to feel the fear at its maximum intensity, so instead you scuttle around doing things as though you are, in some mysterious way, short of time.

– John Cleese – So, Anyway…

Ph : Ellen von Unwerth

Standing under the sun, but no effect, still freezing COLD !!!

I wanna scream !!!

( It’s always happens after Guy Fawkes .. that the temperature drops drastically …)

Some kind of curse !?

Ph : Kyle Thompson

the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga,

are “Notice that” and “What happens next?”

Once you start approaching your body with curiosity

rather than with fear, everything shifts.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear.

And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology.

People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk –

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk –

… psychological problems most originate in pressures from deeper regions in the brain that drive our perception and attention.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk –

Ph : Chadwick Tyler

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from themselves.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk –