Why Does Letting Ourselves Feel Fully Sometimes Feel Like Running With Wolves?
There are nervous systems that organise themselves around restraint. Emotion arises, is acknowledged, and then gently contained so that behaviour remains coherent and socially legible. Within such systems, feeling is something that can be modulated with relative ease. It enters awareness, is processed, and then subsides without fundamentally reorganising the individual’s internal state. Yet there are also nervous systems that do not experience emotion as something to be moderated, but as something that moves. In these systems, feeling is not a contained event but a force with direction. Anger mobilises...
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