By imagining—with full engagement in her bodily experience—the sense that she was running, unfettered, in a safe place, she was able to complete the frozen action locked in her body.g Just having Sharon imagine running would not have had much of an effect. However, first approaching the place where she was trapped, revisiting (touching into) that moment of terror and then experiencing the (new) possibility of completing that motor act was the therapeutic denouement.98 Having felt her highly charged physically sensations, just as they were, not as she feared or imagined they were, was the
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