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Maintain stillness, establish specific sensory contact with
Maintain stillness, establish specific sensory contact with suffering's bodily location, and refrain from interference to allow the nervous system to complete its natural processing cycle.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Emotions prepare the body for specific physical actions (emotions prepare body for action) and Physical movement can complete physiological action (movement can complete action sequences). The lesson describes the three-element practice (stillness, contact, non-interference) as allowing discharge. This is Levine's Somatic Experiencing principle applied: the body knows how to process if you don't interrupt. The principle prescribes the conditions for this processing.