Our Pathos is a double movement

Everything that we do in Caycedian Sophrology is perpetually envisaged to bring us to terms with the things that we do (consciously or unconsciously) on a daily basis. Our aim is to constantly remain close to the reality at all cost.

One of the most crucial double movements is our suffering/joy, otherwise called our very PATHOS of life, without which we wouldn’t be human. Our pathos is felt/lived through our joys/pains through our laughter/tears, the most plain, but essentials that tell us that we are alive, hence makes up our VIVANCE (the life that flows & manifests in a living continuity).

By practicing Sophrology we bring our pathos into balance, so as not to feel that we are undergoing our existence in irrationality (aggressed). We learn to understand/consent to the constant presence of both emotions and to recognise when one gets out of proportion and begins to travel down the path of extremes. We know that the mere thought of wanting to eradicate our pains or tears, would mean that we are putting our joys and laughter into peril, therefore our life at stake. And this is valid for so many double movements that belong to the reality of life, but that we are frequently and mistakenly led into believing that we like the feeling of one but not the other. Only because we spend most of our time running away from the emotions that are (physically/mentally) painful therefore never develop the skills to cope successfully with them. Practically, it boil down to; if we seek to live only through a chosen group of feelings we are partially (not entirely) living. As I often say: “When the Soul is afraid of dying, it never learns to Live”.