THE PREVENTING

🧐 This endeavour must be stopped immediately! The other party must not consider continuing with any unauthorised action and must cease their activity

📖 Efference of an authoritarian intervention as a form of direct behavioural control. The ego demonstrates its intention to immediately halt an action the other person is currently carrying out or planning to carry out: ‘Stop!’, ‘Don’t go any further!’ or ‘Stop that!’. This is a signal that sets boundaries, often used to enforce social norms or avert danger

🤔 At the end of the movement, the hands move forwards and slightly downwards, with the palms facing downwards. The arms are extended. The fingers are also extended, but often remain slightly bent. The jerky movements that form the main emphasis are directed forwards and downwards

😶 The gaze is focused on the other person

🤓 I put a stop to something that continues despite a warning — if a child shows every intention of climbing a fruit tree without permission, you would forbid this by saying ‘DO NOT’. However, if the child continues to approach the tree with that intention, you would reiterate the same prohibition by saying ‘STOP’. (If someone continues their action despite being warned in a timely manner, then the prohibition is expressed even more emphatically)