Ep. 133 – The Power of Restraint
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Is There a Middle Ground Between Repression and Expression?
In our Western psychological model, we have the idea that you either are expressing things or you're repressing them. But if there's an energy coming up, and that basically there are two choices, you either express it and release it and let it out. I think that's a very limited polarity, dichotomy,. It closes off a very powerful and important middle ground which is neither repression nor expression. We can be aware and be open to the whole range of energies that may come.
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