"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.“


-Carl Rogers

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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

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