What is "internalizing"

Usage examples of "internalizing".

She felt as if she and Mueller were making tentative steps toward friendship with one another, but their mutual tendency toward internalizing and caution was now getting in the way of that.

For it is precisely by regulating and punishing ourselves, internalizing the social functions of policing and control, that we arrive at the strange notion that we are producing our own proper language, speaking for ourselves.

She spent so much time internalizing that she seldom noticed what was going on above her.

During that time had the Day-Keepers and foreread­ers developed the system of chaldra, which allows an individual to feed his need for crisis and problem on a physical level, rather than internalizing his strug­gles.