“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.” PainFormWaitingAbilityHappenedBirthPatientUncertaintyTensionSomething NewEnduranceWillingnessUnfoldingCoexistUnknowing Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.” MayFeelingsPainStressNervousTherapyTensionInjuryComponentsStressed Author:Gabor Mate
“... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It's not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature.” MindUseBodyPainHealingMagicInstanceTherapyTensionInjuryAppropriateTreatmentDiagnosisSyndromesPower Of The MindAntibioticsHealing The Body Author:John E. Sarno
“Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.” WayFeelsI CanPainCan DoSpecialDutyStoresFeel GoodTherapyTensionMusclesInjuryRemoveSpecial PlacesI Can Do This Author:Douglas Coupland
“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.” WritingWellsMayMightPainSufferingSongJusticeGraceSadnessChangedBearsSorrowOrdinaryGoldWeightListsHorribleRedemptionTensionCarrieShoppingTransformedAlchemyPropheticDrossElegy Author:Andrea Dworkin
“. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.” PlayPainBlackElementsStressConstantFolksOppressionTensionExploitation Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.” WayFeelingsPainFeltEmotionMarkTensionBroadsMentalityInwardStimulusSensory Author:Susanne Katherina Langer