Excerpts from "Your Body is Your Brain"

by Amanda Blake

"The nervous system evolved, biologists believe, to keep organisms in balance with the world around them. So naturally, we must be immersed in that world in order to best adapt to it."
也是學習處世必先入世的意思嗎？

On CENTERING
"The basic somatic competency that undergirds resilience, emotional regulation, and self-mastery is the capacity to center yourself. Centering is about building your capacity to tolerate strong sensations without having to automatically act to make the discomfort disappear. It's about actively returning yourself to a state of ▫️psycho-physiological coherence▫️when you are frazzled. It's about adjusting and aligning your posture so that the maximum amount of breath and energy can reach every nook and cranny of your body, so you are well positioned to use all of that energy to your advantage. And as you'll come to see, it's about far, far more than taking a deep breath and counting to ten."


Illustration
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection: Erbario,
from Italy 14--