ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss the concept of self-regulation and suggest supplementing it with that of life regulation. I present the idea of self-regulation as it is traditionally understood in body psychotherapy, which is mainly as a biological concept, and discuss an alternative view related to the systems theory of life. I show how individual and interactive regulation are two aspects of the successful self-regulation of life processes in terms both of one's own wellbeing and that of others. From a therapeutic perspective, this means transforming through integrated auto- and co-regulation those patterns of regulating emotions, needs and relationships that create distress.
