Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Traumas
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• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

  

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• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  

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• You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

  

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• The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

  

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• Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

  

  Ben Affleck
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• Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

  

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• A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

  

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• It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

  

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• The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

  

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• It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

  

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• I know only that in my belief in Adolf Hitler I put all my strength at the disposal of my people. As a German soldier I could only put myself at the service of the defense against those destructive forces which had once brought Germany close to the abyss, and which today, after the collapse of the Reich, are still threatening the world. If I have made mistakes in my work through a false conception of obedience, if I carried out orders, all of which, insofar as they are alleged to be cardinal orders, were issued before my time of office, then they are part of a fate which is stronger than myself and which is carrying me along with it. I am accused here because substitutes are needed for the missing Himmler and other elements which were completely contrary to me. Whether my point of view and explanation are accepted or rejected, I ask you not to connect the fate and honor of hundreds of thousands of the living and dead of the General SS, of the Waffen-SS, and of the civil servants who, believing in their ideal, bravely defended, their Reich to the last, with your just curse against Himmler. Like myself, they believed that they were acting according to law.

  

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• Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Breathing
  • Collapse
  • Traumas