Day 8 Unsent Letter prompt

[HealingMe]

Are you having success at recognizing the emotions connected to your pain? If you have, how do these emotions make you feel? If not, what do you think is preventing you from doing this?

At this moment, I think so? I feel a lot of anxiety and I cry before I sit down and begin writing. It almost feels like something is trying to stop me from doing it? Maybe this is all in my head. When I wrote my unsent letter to my personality today, I felt scared and began crying, but as I continued to write, I began feeling empathetic towards it, like I wanted to give it a hug and soothe it. When I finished, it felt like I could take a breath. I also noticed an increase in pulsing in my stomach, like a muscle tightening over and over before releasing. I found it weird and observed it. I was surprised I didn't panic or worry. It passed and calmed down.

This morning I woke up and did a somatic body scan, I ended up dozing back to sleep mid scan? I have no idea what happened.

 

[JanAtheCPA]

It almost feels like something is trying to stop me from doing it?

Yep, something is trying to stop you from doing the work - that's your TMS brain trying to protect you from dangerous emotions which might distract you from seeing the sabre tooth tiger waiting to eat you. Literally. Your brain doesn't understand modern stress, it only understands primitive danger.

I began feeling empathetic towards it, like I wanted to give it a hug and soothe it.

Nice!

I have no idea what happened.

Who knows? The individual manifestations of the mindbody connection are mysterious and infinite and rather amazing, too.