Buried Feeling
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Buried Belief
- “If I feel this, I will fall apart.”
- “If I open this feeling, I will never recover.”
- “My emotions are too much.”
- “Feeling makes me weak.”
- “I must stay in control to be safe.”
- “If I feel the truth, I will lose control.”
- “Numbing is safer than feeling.”
Hard-to-Go Place
Allowing yourself to feel the emotion without escaping, numbing, blaming, distracting, intellectualizing, minimizing, or explaining it away.
Next Step
Name the feeling. Sit with it. Breathe into it. Let it exist in the body without needing to fix it immediately.
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Identifying the buried feeling or belief is the first step. The next step is learning how to work with what you’ve found.
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