You say I need to get
interested in feelings?
Correct.
How?
You start paying
attention to them.
And I do that by…
Start listening to your body.
That’s where the feelings live.
Explain.
We have physical reactions
to what we experience.
All animals do.
That’s unavoidable.
But, unlike animals,
humans must decide
what to do with them.
Decide?
Yes. Whether to express
or bury them.
Can I cry if I’m with
other people?
If I get angry at my
boss can I yell at him?
If the movie scares me
can I run out of
the theater?
I get it.
We’re all taught there
are times we need
to bury our feelings
Unfortunately some of
us are trained to do it
all of the time.
Some of us?
Like kids raised in
alcoholic or abusive
or narcissistic families…
where expressing feelings
can be dangerous.
And what happens
to them?
They grow up…
constipated.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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