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So if you're working on dissolving a passive-aggressive pattern that negatively impacts you and others, I encourage you to consider all the ways that you hold yourself back from giving others the exact sensations that it would truly please you to give them. For example, maybe you're late all the time (thus inflicting sensations of frustration on others) and this is a compensation because you never let yourself inflict the kind of sensations on others that would be actually fun and inspiring to you to inflict—like your sexiness or your gut-busting zany humor.
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
Each of us actually believes that things should be the way we want them, instead of being the natural result of all the forces of creation.
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
Other researchers had shown that dominant male monkeys had much higher levels of brain serotonin than lower-ranking animals but that their serotonin levels dropped when they were prevented from maintaining eye contact with the monkeys they had once lorded over. In contrast, low-ranking monkeys who were given serotonin supplements emerged from the pack to assume leadership.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk MD
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