Charles Darwin wrote a book about emotions in which…

Page 86 Charles Darwin wrote a book about emotions in which he talks about how emotions are expressed in things like heartbreak in gut-wrenching experiences. So you feel things in your body. And then it becomes obvious that if people are in a constant state of heartbreak and gut wrench, they do everything to shut down those feelings to their body. One way of doing this is taking drugs and alcohol, and the other thing is that you can just shut down your emotional awareness of your body. And so a very large number of traumatized people who we see, have cut off relationships to their bodies. They may not feel what's happening in their bodies. They may not register what's going on with them. And so it became very clear that we needed to help people to feel safe feeling the sensations in their bodies, to start having a relationship with the life of their organism.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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