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Picture a man standing, suddenly ablaze with anger. Before he can even bring his mind to bear on it, the Prophetic guidance reaches him with an instruction aimed first at his body. This is the cleanest expression I know of a truth I have built my life's work upon: feelings are built upon sensations in the body first.

Every time I sit before someone who hears the word "coaching" for the first time, I can almost watch the sentence form in their eyes: this is something foreign to us. And I will make a claim that may sound large: that coaching, rightly understood, is not an import from the West, but a revival of the role of the murabbi.