Stephen Buehler
@buehler.bsky.social
connect.emotive.energy / emotions are #dynamic #embodiment / #workplace consultant w 20k+ hrs supporting #healthcare #leaders #teams #doctors #nurses / 300+ critical incidents #firstresponder / individual, group psychotherapist / #climateaware
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Stephen Buehler
@buehler.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Reichian "body armoring" is (unconsciously?) employing muscular tension to radically, immediately dampen affective experience ... to "block" experience .... the propensity to "armor" grows when one acquires "strong muscle" ... and/or uses that muscle w "high intensity" regularly
From an #embodied POV the MAHA crowd celebrate & promote rigidity
A rigid embodiment orients to non-rigidity as “weak” & “soft” … unable to become properly rigid
Rigidity enables (seeks) intensity & projection more than any other embodiment style
A rigid embodiment orients to non-rigidity as “weak” & “soft” … unable to become properly rigid
Rigidity enables (seeks) intensity & projection more than any other embodiment style
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80 years ago on this day, the #NurembergTrials started.
What have they taught us about the human condition?
Have we learned the lesson?
What have they taught us about the human condition?
Have we learned the lesson?
How #democracy transforms to #autocracy: lessons from the #NurembergTrials.
The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich.
Below is a thread with selected excerpts.
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The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich.
Below is a thread with selected excerpts.
1/n
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
80 years ago on this day, the #NurembergTrials started.
What have they taught us about the human condition?
Have we learned the lesson?
What have they taught us about the human condition?
Have we learned the lesson?
Reposted by Stephen Buehler
What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.
The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself
When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.
I always appreciated magical realism because the magic happened “in the real world” … not apart from it
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I always appreciated magical realism because the magic happened “in the real world” … not apart from it
Missing this guy right now
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Missing this guy right now
My off-the-cuff #opinion
people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment
people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements
people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment
people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My off-the-cuff #opinion
people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment
people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements
people “on the left” fear exposure, social judgment
people “on the right” fear restrictions, social requirements
Understanding unconscious projective dynamics does not grant anyone immunity, escape or mastery of their own unconscious projective dynamics
Mostly b/c humans are built this way
Mostly b/c humans are built this way
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Understanding unconscious projective dynamics does not grant anyone immunity, escape or mastery of their own unconscious projective dynamics
Mostly b/c humans are built this way
Mostly b/c humans are built this way
When predictive processing gets real: motor cortex dynamics shaped by expectations of sensory feedback, not just planned movement
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When predictive processing gets real: motor cortex dynamics shaped by expectations of sensory feedback, not just planned movement
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“Emotions are social in nature. We...communicate and share them with others. Copying emotions, like fear, is a fundamental part of the way we understand each other."
Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.
www.popsci.com/health/how-f...
Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.
www.popsci.com/health/how-f...
Is fear contagious?
Fear isn’t just personal—it spreads through sight, smell, and even subconsciously.
www.popsci.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Emotions are social in nature. We...communicate and share them with others. Copying emotions, like fear, is a fundamental part of the way we understand each other."
Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.
www.popsci.com/health/how-f...
Pleasure to speak with Sarah Philip for Popular Science about fear contagion.
www.popsci.com/health/how-f...
If you have a body, you are #embodied … even if you never, ever think about your body
An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody
An embodied POV asks HOW you embody
and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to
All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc
An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody
An embodied POV asks HOW you embody
and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to
All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc
October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you have a body, you are #embodied … even if you never, ever think about your body
An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody
An embodied POV asks HOW you embody
and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to
All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc
An embodied POV doesn’t ask IF you embody
An embodied POV asks HOW you embody
and IF you can modify HOW you embody when you want to
All while discussing your partner, kid, job, life, etc
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what’s inside.
Kohler unveils a camera for your toilet | TechCrunch
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what’s inside.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Stephen Buehler
"A person can become free through acts of disobedience by learning to say no to power... If I am afraid of freedom, I cannot dare to say 'no'. I cannot have the courage to be disobedient. Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable."
- Erich Fromm, On Disobedience
- Erich Fromm, On Disobedience
January 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"A person can become free through acts of disobedience by learning to say no to power... If I am afraid of freedom, I cannot dare to say 'no'. I cannot have the courage to be disobedient. Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable."
- Erich Fromm, On Disobedience
- Erich Fromm, On Disobedience
This am we had a present of 4 pairs of socks at the foot of the bed. She’s been doing this for days. When we put the socks away, she is very vocal when she brings them back out. Easy to anthropomorphize her complaining about how she just fixed stuff, and has to do again!?!!
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This am we had a present of 4 pairs of socks at the foot of the bed. She’s been doing this for days. When we put the socks away, she is very vocal when she brings them back out. Easy to anthropomorphize her complaining about how she just fixed stuff, and has to do again!?!!
The alpha cat in our house will do this 3-4x a week …
1/ jump up to top of tall dresser
2/ open top dresser drawer
3/ find socks, take one out
4/ drop sock present(s) by our bed
1/ jump up to top of tall dresser
2/ open top dresser drawer
3/ find socks, take one out
4/ drop sock present(s) by our bed
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The alpha cat in our house will do this 3-4x a week …
1/ jump up to top of tall dresser
2/ open top dresser drawer
3/ find socks, take one out
4/ drop sock present(s) by our bed
1/ jump up to top of tall dresser
2/ open top dresser drawer
3/ find socks, take one out
4/ drop sock present(s) by our bed
My critique of psychoanalysis isn’t that the model is “wrong” at all … just that one facet “isn’t always right”
That element is the primacy of reflective separation … “containment” & “mentalizing” functions that make clarity & space in swells of affect & boundary permeability
That element is the primacy of reflective separation … “containment” & “mentalizing” functions that make clarity & space in swells of affect & boundary permeability
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My critique of psychoanalysis isn’t that the model is “wrong” at all … just that one facet “isn’t always right”
That element is the primacy of reflective separation … “containment” & “mentalizing” functions that make clarity & space in swells of affect & boundary permeability
That element is the primacy of reflective separation … “containment” & “mentalizing” functions that make clarity & space in swells of affect & boundary permeability
Reposted by Stephen Buehler
Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics
Topdog vs underdog is a classic #gestalt polarity
The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Topdog vs underdog is a classic #gestalt polarity
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Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago
"What do you do under strain?"
"What do you do under strain?"
September 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago
"What do you do under strain?"
"What do you do under strain?"
Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago
"What do you do under strain?"
"What do you do under strain?"
September 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago
"What do you do under strain?"
"What do you do under strain?"
I’ll take “Arrogantly Misunderstanding Nietzsche” for $200, Alex
September 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I’ll take “Arrogantly Misunderstanding Nietzsche” for $200, Alex
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People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed
People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed