Our Developmental Movements & Their Psychological Significance: #5 Pulling

According to Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's Body-Mind Centering, there are five developmental movements or actions: yielding, pushing, reaching, grasping, and pulling.
In this video, Dr. May focuses on pulling. This movement helps us bring people or objects closer so we can connect, treasure, understand, and/or make them a part of us. Pulling can relate to our healthy sense of entitlement to have or claim that which is pulled. We can sometimes struggle with pulling too hard (too entitled, taking things that are not ours) or not pulling much at all (undeserving, fear of loss, difficulty following through).
After pulling, we return to yielding, where we can experience the satisfaction of completion of that action. Although we sometimes struggle with this ability to enjoy savor our success.
Exercises are offered to help with pulling and the transition from pulling to yielding.
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References:
Bainbridge Cohen, B. (2012). Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering. Wesleyan University Press; third edition
McConnell, S. (2020). Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement, and Touch in Practice. North Atlantic Books; 1st Edition.
Ogden, P. (2021). The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) 1st Edition. W. W. Norton & Company.

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[@jennifermayph.d.2761]

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I haven't made a video on masochism, but if I can dig up some quality resources on it, I'd be open to making a video. Stay tuned!

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