In this weeks episode, we turn our attention to the language of our bodies; feelings (and by association, pain and sickness).
Feelings are an essential part of how we communicate to ourselves. Unfortunately, many of us have been taught that our feelings are either too much or need to be controlled or that they are unimportant. Some of us have also been stifled to express feelings because of other peoples discomfort with them. So we have had restrictions placed on us based on other peoples own fears and judgements.
Ever been told "Don't cry" when someone is comforting you? More often than not, it's due to their own awkwardness about your emotional state. But often, instead of seeing that their response to our emotions is steeped in their own inability to express their own, we internalise it and add it to the list of all the things we do wrong. Well, at least that has been the way my mind has worked over the years!
We've adopted coping strategies to help us ignore our feelings. Are you aware of what yours are? Sometimes we've buried our feelings so deep, covering them up in both healthy and unhealthy habits, that we don't even realise we are avoiding them.
In this episode, we look at five strategies that may help you navigate your feelings, where they tend to sit in your physical body, the thoughts they engage in and the subsequent behaviours that you play out. These strategies are:
Acknowledge Feelings
Get Curious/Ask Questions
Label your Emotions
Seek Help
Surrender
These five techniques can help you learn more about how you see the world and your responses to it. You might learn how to express yourself more authentically, let go of the judgements and expectations of others (and yourself) and how to not be a slave to your emotions. It's absolutely OK to be an emotional person (I know, because I am one) in fact, it's a strength to be able to express your emotions. It's when they have control over you that becomes a problem. For you to live in freedom, there has to be a balance between expressing emotion in a healthy way
Here's the Spotify link for last weeks episode "Thoughts Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves." This is the first of three in our series of change strategies. It's the one I mention in the show that you should watch ahead of this one. But it's totally all good if you listen to it after todays episode too.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YHx5gEiiEKAjMUGk2itjF?si=g3LwD-dxQ3Szn7B9yNfcHQ
I also talk about Marianne Williamson and her book "A Course in Weight-Loss" in todays episode and our footnote quote comes from Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote in her book Eat, Pray, Love, "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts and you are the slave to your emotions.”
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