Processing Emotions

Hi NAS66392 

Complex question.  Well done for opening up about it.

Like Iain I found this takes work too.

For me the way into assessing the emotions I experience first came thro' identifying the "physical" aspect of it.

eg confidence - chest out, head high, tail tucked under

fear - physically shrinking away from

and how I experience thro my senses - how I see things etc from this corporeal state.

As regards guilt - I'd maybe experience this as an oppresion or a tension in my chest

shame bowing my head, or lowering my gaze

This all gets complicated when one considers how much we become conditioned to certain behaviour by previous events or expectations and internalised sense of self-worth.

Anyway if I stick my chest forward and carry my head high eventually the sense of oppression or tension in my chest eases off.  If I carry my head high i am more able to look the world in the face.

Funnily enough I see myself and perhaps others do too as less of a "professional victim" like this.  If injustices have genuinely taken place the capacity to stand up against them is physically more possible and that has a correlate in how I mentally approach things too.

Works for me - maybe you too

might be worth exploring the topic of "cognitive embodiment" - these days something like google ai etc can give a brief explanation and help explore the topic further 

If you want to chat about it more it's one of my "special interests" - partly born of necessity as you might imagine.

happy to chat about it more if you want.

best wishes

Hi NAS66392 

Complex question.  Well done for opening up about it.

Like Iain I found this takes work too.

For me the way into assessing the emotions I experience first came thro' identifying the "physical" aspect of it.

eg confidence - chest out, head high, tail tucked under

fear - physically shrinking away from

and how I experience thro my senses - how I see things etc from this corporeal state.

As regards guilt - I'd maybe experience this as an oppresion or a tension in my chest

shame bowing my head, or lowering my gaze

This all gets complicated when one considers how much we become conditioned to certain behaviour by previous events or expectations and internalised sense of self-worth.

Anyway if I stick my chest forward and carry my head high eventually the sense of oppression or tension in my chest eases off.  If I carry my head high i am more able to look the world in the face.

Funnily enough I see myself and perhaps others do too as less of a "professional victim" like this.  If injustices have genuinely taken place the capacity to stand up against them is physically more possible and that has a correlate in how I mentally approach things too.

Works for me - maybe you too

might be worth exploring the topic of "cognitive embodiment" - these days something like google ai etc can give a brief explanation and help explore the topic further 

If you want to chat about it more it's one of my "special interests" - partly born of necessity as you might imagine.

happy to chat about it more if you want.

best wishes