HOW DOES S.E. (SOMATIC EXPERIENCING) DIFFER FROM OTHER THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES? 1. SE. helps to develop the organismic capacity for self regulation 2. SE. employs awareness of body sensation to help people “renegotiate” and heal rather than relive or reenact trauma. … Read More
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille
When I am teaching in the West, people talk about self-loathing and self-aggression. That is coming from a sense of unworthiness…. Without a feeling of worthiness, human society and communication naturally become vehicles of manipulation and deception, and we use every activity to shore ourselves up or to outdo someone else. Through this false sense of power, life becomes a perpetual unfolding of doubt, which only confirms the inadequacies we perceive and elicits a feeling of alienation. My father called it the “setting sun”. This term describes a time when humanities sense of dignity and purpose is diminishing, like sunlight at the end of the day. What is setting is our ability to recognize our goodness.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche