This episode is about my personal story of moving from emotional numbness to wholeness, navigating and developing a range of emotions, my perspective on how emotional experience changes over time, and an integrative blend of practices that can help develop emotional capacity and resilience. In individual podcasts over the week, I will offer healing meditations that you can practice to develop your own emotional capacity.
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Show Notes & Timestamps
00:00 Brief Overview of This Episode
00:32 New Intro With Music!
01:10 Thank You to Nick
01:42 Sponsored by You via Patreon
02:16 Update About My Travels
05:18 Start of the Show : How Can I Have Such a Capacity for Emotions and Did I Always Have It?
05:38 I Only Started Feeling 9 Years Ago
05:57 Growing Up in a Chinese Family
06:29 Being a Sensitive Child
06:46 Rebelling in Middle School
07:00 Bringing Emotions Home
07:10 Elders in China
07:43 No Idea How to Handle the Emotions Inside
08:06 EMDR : What is It?
09:19 How It Helped (Feeling in the Body / Naming Emotions)
09:42 Small “t” Trauma : Experiencing Neglect, Abandonment, Emotional & Verbal Relational Abuse
10:13 Visiting a Body Centered Therapist
10:49 Faking My Way Through Life
11:16 Developing My Range : I Could Experience Only 5 Emotions
12:55 Why EMDR is Interesting
13:56 Seeing Progress : Rating Emotions & Sensations
14:56 Brainwave Vibration
15:40 How Yoga Reflects the Same Practice
16:37 This is Not Easy!
17:20 How I Got From There to Where I Am Today
18:23 Leap of Faith Into Grad School for Clinical Psychology
19:04 Finding Family Constellations
21:01 Somatic Experiencing; More Science Behind Emotions and Trauma
22:05 Learning That Emotions Are Completely Helpful
22:38 Mention Brené Brown
22:41 We Can't Numb Out “Negative” Feelings Without Numbing Out the Rest
23:32 10 Years Ago : How Can I Get Rid of My Emotions?
23:53 Now : Allying With Emotions
24:51 Trauma : The Experience of Something Incomplete | The Gift of Trauma in My Life
26:46 The Emotional Evolution Spectrum
27:34 Stage 1: Repression & Protection
28:40 Stage 2: Ability to Experience in My Body With a Safe Person
30:51 Stage 3: feel/tolerate Some Challenging Emotions Alone
32:23 Stage 4: Learning to Enjoy My Experiences, Emotions, and Feelings
33:24 Stage 5: Beginning to Feeling Pleasure in Almost Every Single Emotion : I Am Not My Emotions
34:39 Stage 6: Shifting to Easier Ways to Move Through
35:57 Embodied Experience / Using Different Spiritual / Embodied Technologies to Shift
36:53 Spiritual Bypass
37:37 Resisting body/emotional Experience to Finding Wisdom in Them
38:14 Now I Can't Imagine to Live Without the Emotions
38:30 Doing This Podcast Three Times / Resistance / Recognizing / Moving Through
40:01 Your Takeaway
40:14 Offerings: The Upcoming Three Meditations
41:48 Outro
