Here Michael cites the discovery by Rachel MacNair of what she calls 'Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress'--the fact that as the Buddha and the others often said, when we injure another, we feel that injury ourselves, a fact for which there is now scientific proof. Michael emphasizes how the nonviolent actor can awaken awareness of this reflection in a person threatening to use violence against one, and that this is one of the powers underlying nonviolence.
