--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --From my experience also: sometimes we like to hold onto our > > > pain > > > > Or, we'd be happy to let it go if we could only > > figure out *how*. > > Judy if you put your attention on it, and feel how deeply it goes > into your body and just stay with that, that will work.
OK. As I said in the other post, I was really just suggesting another way to phrase what Robert said. I'm pretty fortunate that I don't have much pain in my life to deal with. > It was odd, when I wanted to release some emotional pain I felt in > my body, I would find myself drawn to stories of negative things > like war and other sadness, and use this as a catalyst. It may > sound strange or dramatic, but I really didn't want to carry that > stuff around inside me once I became aware of it. Doesn't sound strange, sounds like a very valid approach. > Another thing that was helpful to me was the realization that the > pain, though attached to events experienced in some way, had no > reality other than as an emotional mass within me. In other words I > granted it no status other than it just being pain, and so it was > easy to expel when it was time to get rid of it. I astonished myself once a few years ago, seeing Country Joe on TV singing "Fixin' to Die," his anti-Vietnam War song, by suddenly starting to weep. It brought back the pain of that whole era, which I had stored somewhere without realizing it. Don't know why that song triggered it, rather than umpty other reminders I'd encountered. But they were healing tears. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
