Hi Abby I can completely relate to what you wrote here. I have found some relief through surrendering my resistance to the experience of emotional overwhelm. Slowly, when we can be okay with the feeling and let it stay, whe find the capacity to simply look at it. By looking at our intense inner experience, it will become less threatening to us. We can start to look at all the sensations on our body and name the experiences: tingling, pressure, aching, pulsing and so on. And likewise, with our minds; words, pictures, sound or little movies that can trigger more sensations.
It is safe to feel our feelings when we have stepped back from listening to our stories about our emotions.
"Not putting as much weight on our emotions" can mean many things. The more I identify with my emotions, the more I try to protect and nurture my suffering, which is a really really bad idea if I want to feel better. So to me it can be helpful to remind myself of my vivid imagination and how it often can trigger my emotions just as strongly as real world events.
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Hi Abby I can completely relate to what you wrote here. I have found some relief through surrendering my resistance to the experience of emotional overwhelm. Slowly, when we can be okay with the feeling and let it stay, whe find the capacity to simply look at it. By looking at our intense inner experience, it will become less threatening to us. We can start to look at all the sensations on our body and name the experiences: tingling, pressure, aching, pulsing and so on. And likewise, with our minds; words, pictures, sound or little movies that can trigger more sensations.
It is safe to feel our feelings when we have stepped back from listening to our stories about our emotions.
"Not putting as much weight on our emotions" can mean many things. The more I identify with my emotions, the more I try to protect and nurture my suffering, which is a really really bad idea if I want to feel better. So to me it can be helpful to remind myself of my vivid imagination and how it often can trigger my emotions just as strongly as real world events.