Doing Hard Things - A Somatic Inquiry

When we feel dread or anxiety around something we need to do, our brain will bring up all the things that could go wrong. If we are giving a presentation at work, our brain uses evidence from the past, like when we were in grade school and felt embarrassed in front of the class. We begin by looking into some of the evidence the brain is using to predict difficulty. We then move into feeling our own strength and resilience in our body.

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I figured out what keeps me running away from difficult things. It’s my shame programming and how I grew up with false expectations that I put on myself. It has nothing to do with my capabilities and everything to do with others not wanting to feel lesser and so triggering my shame response so I make myself small. It doesn’t make others feel better about themselves that they can make me smaller. It builds distrust among all of us in the situation and allows blame and shame to constantly cycle through that relationship.

This practice is very important to help me allow the bodily rebalance of reality and the melting of this activation to come back into present and our power to see, feel, understand and act.

I was able to use this insight to help me to take steps towards completing unfinished tasks. It was truly liberating and steadying to see myself succeed and move through the world without crippling anxiety. Thank you for this gift of life. I still face fear with relationships, but I can handle tasks so much better now.