Feeling Alive
Have you ever stopped to consider what makes you feel alive? I know most of us have strategies for deadening feelings, but it’s those feelings that we’re trying to kill off that let us know we’re alive.
When you attempt to numb a feeling, that’s an insurance policy that it will come back stronger the next time. That’s why deadening strategies escalate over time.
Here is a question that will point out if you are heavily involved in deadening: Are you (action verb of choice) more now and enjoying it less?
What you fill in the blank with is your deadening strategy.
I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes we all need something to deaden the pain to get us over a hump, but when that something becomes your go-to strategy, you are existing without feeling alive.
Noticing and then feeling the sensations that your body delivers are the first steps to feeling alive. Our initial conditioned reaction is to chase the feeling away. The internal comment that goes along with this is: “I shouldn’t feel this way” or “I don’t want to feel this way.” Here’s the reality we miss: You do feel that way! Notice it and feel it as fully as possible. It’s nature’s way for metabolizing those sensations.
The home brew remedy for deadening isn’t working and it’s robbing you of feeling alive.
It takes some practice, but allowing your sensations to move through you will make you feel more alive and less dead to the world.
All the best,
John
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