Pain and overwhelm 🧑‍🚒 Join us and Dr. Kristin Neff for the Art of Meditation Global Summit!🧘‍♂️

We call it backdraft. So backdraft is firefighting term. You know, when a house is on fire, they don't just fling open the doors of the house to put the hoses in, because, you know, what happens is the air rushes in and the flames rush out. There's nothing wrong with the air. It's just that it ignites the flames that are already there. And it's the same with Backdraft. We have a lot of pain trapped inside of us. Often we've used kind of suppression or repression for most of our life to just keep. Keep ourselves from being overwhelmed by the pain. And then we start to open to it with, you know, the space of mindfulness and the warmth and connectedness of compassion. And what happens is we just get in contact with a lot more pain that was already there. And it can feel destabilizing. It can be very intense. Sometimes people even. Especially if they had a traumatic early trauma, you know, sometimes those traumatic memories will come flooding in. So it's not a sign that you're doing it wrong. It's actually a sign that you're doing it right, but it's a sign that you maybe need to slow down so you don't feel overwhelmed.