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a little more about an important distinction imo

re the "purpose" of emotion

quick 🧵👇
2/ emotion activates

and what it activates depends on

- you
- your environment

with that "you" & "environment"
being very very complex

... so the PROBLEM here is
3/ intelligence & study create certainty

our esteemed book writing psychologist, pontificating free wisdom

operates as

- a person
- in a context
- with a history
- and certain learnings

that smart, studious people tend to universalize and/or prosethetize
4/ let's call it a "wildly successful" bias

which states

"this worked so easily for me, so if everyone did it ... they will at least have a smidge of my success"

it's a common #distortion among "very successful" people

doctors, academics, scientists, leaders, executives, etc
5/ so "the way emotion works" is universalized through a "success bias" as experienced by the "expert" themselves

which distorts the reality

- emotions are used very differently
- with great utility in the diversity
- b/c everyone is successful in different ways
6/ so "emotion" = "solving" is the methods of a scientist mind

one that logicalizes information, makes rational decisions, understands and categorizes

quite different from

emotion is "energy in motion" that "propels action"

where #action emerges from #feeling as #wisdom
7/ this is a different framework than one that uses "mind" more readily

to do these things with the emotion

- contain
- mentalize
- analyze
- understand

as opposed to

- act
- do
- express
- feel

/end

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More from @sbuehler

Mar 26
This is an example of “echo chamber” #distortion that is pervasive in #OD and #leadership

quick 🧵👇🏼
1/ “on 100 senior leaders are telling us”

I’m sure these 100 senior leaders believe what they say about team effectiveness and their own personality
2/ research reports on what it actually measures

which might be nothing, or pure bullshit

So the best research about executives, that executives will want to purchase, is research that gives them validation like “leadership is a team sport”
Read 4 tweets
Mar 24
🔔Reminder

world famous experts can totally miss the point & unintentionally use their status to proliferate pseudo-correct info as they assume their frameworks are 💯 correct

or

“The value of writing things down we hear or read CAN BE overstated”

example and 🧵👇🏼 Image
As I understand their point:

The motor aspects of writing, when coupled with the real-time granular activity of listening and while “trying to understand” alchemizes learning in powerful ways

Me:

Yes absolutely true

/2
Also me:

would you recommend this method to “write what you hear” b/c “the value cannot be overstated” to

- a opera singer
- a juggler
- person w no arms
- person who can’t write

No? must be out of luck then b/c of this magical “writing” that humans invented recently

/3
Read 8 tweets
Mar 3
I’ve become very adverse to “charge” & “discharge” in #somatic language b/c of the misappropriation by the #trauma workshops merchants

But this is what it means 👇🏼
“If we speak of charge and discharge in Body Psychotherapy we refer to changing the arousal dimension of the core affect. Working with charge and discharge is independent of the emotional category that we awaken or calm by provoking or soothing arousal.” - Ulfried Geuter and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In other words …

“emotion”

as a “somatic experience” (ignore the brand)

is a kinesthetic, experiential occurrence that impacts how bodies animate, express, dampen, numb, dissociate, etc
Read 9 tweets
Mar 2
Another point on #differentiation esp as it relates to #collaboration

quick 🧵👇🏼
2/ when a person identifies themselves through #concepts they prize, hoard & claim them “as theirs”

and will sometimes “die for them”

b/c of the mechanism of identification is #conceptual
with #somatic #differentiation comes an internal network of self-experience that gives one access to a felt sense of #emergence

where harmonies, symphonies, waves, charges, compressions, tightens

of #experience occur
Read 8 tweets
Mar 1
my #somatic mentors insisted on two things that I am still engaged with & refining (forever) …

1/ I speak from my own direct experience, not through concepts

2/ I express my own words, and not use theirs or “pretend through their form”

to me this invites #differentiation
in other words … understanding words, even having mastery of the concepts that words describe

amounts to “very little value” from the standpoint of one’s own emergence

this is a provocative concept

esp to thinking minds (as I have)
thinking mind says “I know about this stuff … let me list off the concepts and details with the familiar words …”

embodiment says ???

(embodiment speaks without words)

Read 6 tweets
Mar 1
a bit more about #somatic #internalization
... particularly my "housed in the body" phrasing 👇
I know there is concern with "stored emotions in the body" language

I share that concern

but let's unpack what this means ...
my POV

the impact & expression of emotion is #embodied

there is simply no other way to experience #emotion

there is wide, wide diversity in each individual's expression and experience of #emotion
Read 15 tweets

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