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NARM Affect Core Principle: Emotional Completion
§Individuals with a narrow range of resiliency have a disrupted capacity for aliveness, fullness, pleasure, etc.
§These individuals have a compromised ability to tolerate affective charge; even “positive” affects challenge their capacity to cope
§Clinically, as individuals increase their capacity for tolerating all affects, particularly “positive” affects, their ability to stay present with all their feelings (pleasant and unpleasant) without feeling overwhelmed increases
§Increased “range of resiliency”
§Increasing one’s capacity for aliveness, which is not only about building greater capacity for feeling good/pleasurable feelings, but also manifests in building greater capacity for grief and anger
§From a biological perspective, life energy can once again move from one’s core to one’s periphery, out toward life
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