Emotions resolve faster when you feel them fully instead of thinking your way out. One person's insight: a feeling is worth a thousand thoughts. When you let sensations move through your body like waves, the mental stories built around them fall apart.
Like, if you let yourself feel, then you're just going to go down and you're going to be like a puddle. Like, you need to be strong and tough so you can get to your next meeting. From my experience, like, if you really feel the feeling all the way through to completion, it doesn't take that long and actually helps you reset and get present again for your next meeting. Yeah, I love that. And I've been fond, especially this past year, of saying like, a feeling is worth a thousand thoughts. I love that. You know, picture's worth a thousand words. Like, yeah. I just— I— it's, it's been especially like an aha for me because I spent years coaching thoughts. And I don't want to dismiss that. Like, there's value in that, you know, cognitive behavioral therapy. Yeah, beliefs. Yeah, like challenging the stories your mind makes up, seeing through that. Like, all that is very useful. And what I've been learning, especially over the last year or so, is that often the entire thought pattern is really just a strategy to avoid feeling something. Right. And, if you, again, bring your attention down to your body where the feelings actually live, notice the sensations in your body, allow them versus what we usually do, which is like, fuck, I don't want to feel that. No, go away, sadness. I need to be tough. Go away. Just fully allow it to move through you like waves. It's actually amazing how entire patterns of thought can just dissolve.
