The Profound Effects of Yawning
The immediate change in feeling is not as dramatic with yawning, but there are many indications that the results are just as profound as with emotional discharge.
Cleaning up the core physical distresses, which discharge with yawns, has profound long-range effects and makes the remaining emotional distress much more available for discharge (in casual interactions as well as in sessions).
From page 176 of “Stop Rehearsing Distress in the Name of Co-Counseling,” in A Better World
(Present Time 208, July 2022)
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