Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
Bessel van der Kolk
Quotes to Explore
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
Vivienne Westwood
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.
Cressida Cowell
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
Stephen Carter
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As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
Adyashanti
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In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.
Annia Ciezadlo
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When words fail, haunting images capture the experience and return as nightmares and flashbacks. In contrast to the deactivation of Broca’s area, another region, Brodmann’s area 19, lit up in our participants. This is a region in the visual cortex that registers images when they first enter the brain. We were surprised to see brain activation in this area so long after the original experience of the trauma. Under ordinary conditions raw images registered in area 19 are rapidly diffused to other brain areas that interpret the meaning of what has been seen. Once again, we were witnessing a brain region rekindled as if the trauma were actually occurring.
Bessel van der Kolk
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As long as people are either hyperaroused or shut down, they cannot learn from experience. Even if they manage to stay in control, they become so uptight (Alcoholics Anonymous calls this “white-knuckle sobriety”) that they are inflexible, stubborn, and depressed. Recovery from trauma involves the restoration of executive functioning and, with it, self-confidence and the capacity for playfulness and creativity. If we want to change posttraumatic reactions, we have to access the emotional brain and do “limbic system therapy”: repairing faulty alarm systems and restoring the emotional brain to its ordinary job of being a quiet background presence that takes care of the housekeeping of the body, ensuring that you eat, sleep, connect with intimate partners, protect your children, and defend against danger.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
Adam Zagajewski
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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
Bessel van der Kolk
