Focus on becoming an active and integrated being

We may choose life and connectedness with ourselves and others or distance and alienation. Notice how you take ownership for your life and responsibility for your decisions. Do you say "I feel..." or "You make me feel"? Do you describe your experience as though it (and you) are a passive and distant object "I feel tenseness in my stomach," or choose active verbs to describe your experience "I am tensing myself." Do you distance from some parts of your feelings (which ones) or do you accept the complexity which is human nature? (Perls, 1969, 1970) Write about your discoveries.

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