Unravelling Stuck Pain (Part 2)

Part 2 excerpt from webinar "What Your Pain is Trying to Tell You" discussing concepts around the physical and emotional bodies. Contains 2 exercises to explore the physical and emotional aspects, as a preparation for unravelling stuck pain.

Transcript

Okay,

So we're going to now explore the physical and we're going to explore the emotional.

And it's just this,

This is purely exercises to open up to more expanded experience.

So the best quality to imbue is curiosity in this for these exercises.

And I found that with especially the physical pain unraveling technique that I would do this first exercise,

Which is named a sensation in the body.

And the people that had the best results were the ones that could feel the most diverse sensations in them.

And the ones that had the least shift were the ones that only felt pain or numb that were the only two sensations they could feel.

And I will go through quickly what sensations are just sort of open,

But it's okay wherever you're at because wherever you're at is where you can expand from.

And so let's just quickly talk about sensations.

So sensations are,

I'm talking on the physical and so it could be hot or cold.

It could be tingling.

It could be pulsing.

You might have tight or relaxed.

They are sensations.

And then you might look at pain,

Which has this whole language in itself.

Like you've got sharp pain,

You've got aching,

You've got dull pain,

Throbbing,

Prickling.

And then there's also itching,

It's another sensation.

And then you can have numb as in you're not feeling anything.

So they're kind of the rate they use.

They're probably a few more,

But that's basically the main range of sensations.

And what I found is that some people seem to go,

Oh,

When I say,

Cause I'm going to get you to do various body parts and I go,

Well,

What sensation do you feel at your elbow?

And someone would be like,

Oh,

Happy or sad.

I'm like,

Well,

That's not a sensation.

That's an emotion.

So just to be clear with this particular exercise,

We'll do emotion just after,

But at the moment we just want to have physical sensations.

And so I'm going to do 10 random spots.

So feel free to close your eyes and feel into each of those spots and just notice what the sensation is,

Whatever it is,

Just be curious.

And there is no pros I'm doing 10 random spots.

I've had some people try to memorize spots as if it's part of the techniques.

Not I'm purely making this up right now.

And yeah,

Just to be aware.

So let's start.

So starting at the top of your head,

At the crown,

Closing your eyes,

If that helps and just feeling into the sensation that's at the top of your crown,

Just notice what sensation is there.

The noticing the tip of your nose,

Noticing what sensation is happening at the tip of your nose,

Then noticing your belly button.

What sensation is happening at your belly button?

Now focusing on the top of your right knee.

What sensations happening at the top of your right knee?

Now your left ankle.

It's been curious.

What sensation is happening at your left ankle?

Then your left earlobe.

What sensations happening at your left earlobe?

Your lower lip.

Just focusing on your lower lip.

What sensation happening at your lower lip?

And then the back of your right knee.

Now the back of it.

It's been curious what sensations happening at the back of your right knee?

And then bringing a focus to your tailbone.

What sensations happening at your tailbone?

Then finally your lower back to the left.

Just noticing what sensations happening.

The lower back to the left.

Then bring yourself back into normal consciousness and you know,

You can feel free to share your experience in the chat or not.

It could be personal,

But yeah,

Just noticing how diverse those sensations were or how limited they were and it doesn't there's no need to judge or anything like that.

It's just curiosity and noticing.

And now we're going to move to the experience,

The emotions and experiencing the emotions.

And so I like to categorise my the emotions into generally five broad types,

But we're going to go through.

So we'll go through sadness,

Shame,

Shame or guilt,

Fear,

Anger and joy.

And there's various emotions within each of those categories as well.

Oh yeah,

So it's about some warmth and tingling on most spots.

That's good.

That's a that's a pretty good sensation to experience.

It's better than numb,

Right?

It's like feeling there's a liveness and connection to the body.

Yeah,

So the emotions.

Yeah,

So we're going to go through each one and we're going to experience them and you know,

Maybe you're not feeling at the moment,

But it's always there.

The emotional experience is always there for you.

And I just want to also pre frame up about certain emotions because we have this tendency in our society go,

Oh,

Emotions,

Death emotions,

A good emotion,

And that's a bad one.

But actually every emotion has a functional and dysfunctional aspect to it.

And so with shame and guilt on a list that with anger,

Anger is definitely mostly considered a bad emotion,

Right?

And but in a dysfunctional sense,

It can be bad like things like road rage.

That's a dysfunctional as dysfunctional way to express anger or getting there like extremely angry over a very small thing.

But in a functional sense,

When someone crosses the line with you,

Anger or depending on the intensity of boundary cross,

It's a functional way to express that the boundary has been crossed.

And what I find is that especially in women is that they're angry,

But then they'll smile or they'll even laugh.

I find that horrific actually when someone's angry and they need to tell that person like say a male,

Like not to be stereotypical,

But that does happen where male crosses the line and they will laugh and that really creates a mixed message.

And also there's this disconnect with actually feeling angry because perhaps they didn't feel safe or something like that.

Yeah,

But anger is the best way to tell someone you've crossed the line and depending on how intense that boundary cross would be functional to ramp up the intensity of the anger.

Shame and guilt is another one.

Not so much that it's that it's bad for someone to feel it,

But it's bad when you feel it yourself.

And shame or guilt have a functional aspect in that when you cross your own value systems or how you or how you like to relate with others and you cross the line in some way,

Then you feel shame for guilty and then especially guilt often stirs you to do something to correct that.

And so that emotion used in a functional way,

But in a dysfunctional way,

You see that the sociopath doesn't have any shame and does some really dysfunctional behaviours in society from that.

So they're the main ones and then there's the other one.

So we're going to go through each one and we're just going to experience the five emotions and just noticing for yourself what comes up.

So let's start with sadness.

That's an easy one for people and just feeling that if you have something going on right now,

But if you don't just,

You can pull up a memory if you feel like you can't access it and just noticing where do you particularly feel that in your body?

What change happens in your body when you are in the sadness,

In the emotion of sadness?

And do certain thought patterns show up when you're in that?

What changes in your energy field?

And also asking yourself,

Acknowledging,

Is this an emotion that you allow yourself to feel fully?

And then if you could fully embody or exaggerate that,

How would you,

How would you do that right now in your own space?

And so now we're going to move to shame and guilt.

You can choose one,

But you know,

Drawing that up if you can feel that and if not drawing a memory that might associate with that,

But just noticing where do you particularly notice change in your body when you're in the emotion of shame or guilt?

Do you notice certain thought patterns that show up or change in your energy in some way?

And asking yourself,

Is this an emotion that you allow yourself to feel and experience fully?

And if you could fully embody and exaggerate this emotion,

How would you do it?

All right,

And let's move now to fear.

So feel if you,

If you notice that emotion already can feel that.

If not,

You can use a memory to help draw in that experience,

But where do you particularly notice a change in your body when you're feeling fear?

Just noticing if there's any thought patterns that show up or any change in your energy and asking yourself,

Is this an emotion that you allow yourself to feel and experience fully?

And if you could fully exaggerate or embody that emotion,

Fear,

How would you do it?

Now let's move to anger.

So drawing in or activating anger,

The emotion anger in you,

Or just remember drawing back to a memory where you are angry and where do you particularly notice anger or change in your body from anger?

Just being curious about that.

What kind of thoughts show up for you?

Any change in your energy field?

This one should be distinctly different to a lot of the other ones.

And just noticing or asking yourself,

Is this an emotion that you allow yourself to feel and experience fully?

I wish I could see cameras,

But if you could fully embody an experience,

Exaggerate,

Sorry,

That emotion of anger,

How would you do it?

All right,

And we'll just go to the last emotion,

Which is joy,

Excuse me.

And just noticing or activating joy inside of you or drawing back to a memory where you felt joy.

And where do you particularly notice the change in your body with joy?

Do certain thought patterns show up for you or changes in your energy?

Is this an emotion that you allow yourself to feel and experience fully?

And if you could fully embody or exaggerate this emotion of joy,

How would you do it?

How would you do it individually?

And bringing yourself back into normal consciousness.

And just know you can share in the chat how you're going and someone from the previous exercise from the sensation,

They had itching,

Pulsing,

Tingling,

Dull aches,

Which is a really nice plethora of different emotions to experience.

Well,

I guess you could say nice or not,

But it's good to have that diversity,

Have that diversity of language in the physical.

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