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    “Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships. When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”

    Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps The Score (Page 17)

      “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”

      Elvin Semrad, The Body Keeps The Score (Page 11)

        “If we are not here now, what makes us think we will be there then?”

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        The Body Keeps The Score [Book]

          By: Bessel Van Der Kolk

          Book Overview: In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Van Der Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

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          40 Bessel van der Kolk Quotes on Trauma and Healing from The Body Keeps The Score

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            “Remember friends as you walk by, as you are now so once was I. As I am now, so you will be. Prepare yourself to follow me.”

            Written on a tombstone

              “When I use the word ignorance, I don’t use it in any negative sense—I don’t mean absence of knowledge. I mean something very fundamental, very present, very positive. It is how we are. It is the very nature of existence to remain mysterious, and that’s why it is so beautiful.”

              Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 17)