Figure 2. Pum’s states of subjective, internal regulation of affects and arousal by body activity, their personal expression and interpersonal sharing in movement. The green area indicates the optimum, ideal levels of arousal for practicing structured and creative routines in kinetic expression, and to facilitate ‘self-to-self’ communication across levels (c.f. Fig. 1). The left-hand side of the chart shows negative balance states, feelings that are detrimental to individual functioning and wellbeing and that incur further stress. The right-hand side of the chart shows more positively valanced feelings. The higher regions of arousal on this side
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