Stephen Buehler

Emotional Agility is a Physical, Embodied Process #embodiment #practice Discover how emotional granularity and embodied awareness form the real basis of emotional agility—deepening discernment, resilience, and choice.

More here: open.substack.com/pub/emotiona...

Emotional Agility is more like CBT or classical psychoanalysis than an true #embodied POV b/c managing emotional intensity means separating from the direct experience by “thinking” about it

Whereas #embodiment directly engages the physicality, the phenomenology of the moment

We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history. n.pr/3KZCl3a

Does the United States Still Oppose Torture? The U.S. voted against the UNGA's torture resolution, breaking decades of consensus and raising questions about its human rights stance.

“For the first time in history, the United States voted against the UN General Assembly’s periodic resolution condemning torture.”

www.justsecurity.org/126649/does-...

A tell-tale sign of a relative failure to emotionally self-regulate?

… the focus on regulating another
… points also to boundary confusion

I love how one set of minds at a certain place and time will see something and call it “pigeon” … where another people at another time might call this “purple” … I find that magical, not conflictual

Proper terminology is not the same as effective psychology

Psychology becomes more insightful when those who practice are willing to update, revise & delete “favorite” terms

When clinicians refuse to let language evolve, they end up treating the term instead of the person

a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and talking to each other . ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and talking to each other .

This post tho

My house came with a bunch of these cat warmers pre-installed

Some people struggle b/c they “think too much” and “cannot feel”

Others struggle b/c they “feel too much” and “cannot think”

Psychotherapies that see everyone needing one of these solutions, instead of understanding the contextual, dynamic person … can create harm

I’d bet that all the top coach buyouts from public universities are funded through their self-sustaining / highly profitable football operations … no research professors are filling 100k $tadiums to watch them work

That shit’s contagious!

80 years ago on this day, the #NurembergTrials started.

What have they taught us about the human condition?

Have we learned the lesson?

Apologies, I find can only offer smug slogans

Well, we know that people who make extraordinary claims show hypertrophy of the default mode network with corresponding hypoactivity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.

What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.

One of my ❤️’s

I always appreciated magical realism because the magic happened “in the real world” … not apart from it

Missing this guy right now

My off-the-cuff #opinion

people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment

people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements

Understanding unconscious projective dynamics does not grant anyone immunity, escape or mastery of their own unconscious projective dynamics

Mostly b/c humans are built this way

When predictive processing gets real: motor cortex dynamics shaped by expectations of sensory feedback, not just planned movement

Is fear contagious? Fear isn’t just personal—it spreads through sight, smell, and even subconsciously.

“Emotions are social in nature. We...communicate and share them with others. Copying emotions, like fear, is a fundamental part of the way we understand each other."

Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.

www.popsci.com/health/how-f...

My kiddo is reading that book right now! The boy-bird bond is so sweet.

YouTube video by Ranch & River Cabin Alone in the Alaskan Wilderness - Dick Proenneke

Have you seen this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-4...

If you have a body, you are #embodied … even if you never, ever think about your body

An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody

An embodied POV asks HOW you embody

and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to

All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc

#shitposting

"A person can become free through acts of disobedience by learning to say no to power... If I am afraid of freedom, I cannot dare to say 'no'. I cannot have the courage to be disobedient. Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable."

- Erich Fromm, On Disobedience