91: Ya Gotta FEEL It to HEAL It | Mastering Emotions 101
Emotions are part of the human experience. But it’s SO common to feel resistance or fear around actually FEELING your emotions.
So what do we do instead? We numb. We distract. We avoid. We try to fix.
In the past few months, I’ve used this practice (which I call “sitting in the sh*t”) to identify and acknowledge my feelings, sit in the discomfort of them, and not judge or label them as bad.
When you FEEL, you can HEAL. And when you’re willing to “go there” and feel uncomfortable, you also open yourself up to contrasting emotions such as joy, bliss, love and fulfillment.
I hope this episode and this practice helps you as much as it has for me!
SHOW NOTES
Opening – I hope you find what lights your soul on fire as it relates to work
2:15 – The “2.0” version of you is already within you; it’s about coming home to yourself
3:09 – fear and resistance around FEELING: how it leads to destructive behaviors or numbing out
4:50 – “sitting in the shit” >> a process for feeling your feelings:
1. Identify and acknowledge the feeling
2. Sitting in the discomfort of the feeling vs. fixing, solving or numbing
3. Not judging or labeling the feeling as “bad”
8:20 – riding emotions like a wave
10:00 – feel in order to heal // how we block ourselves from experiencing more “positive” emotions as well
12:30 – feelings are here to teach us more about ourselves
RESOURCES
Feelings wheel to help identify/name feelings
Podcast: becoming the 2.0 version of you
