When Feeling Seems Like Too Much
Cuando sentir parece demasiado
A student describes the sense that fully feeling emotions becomes overwhelming, and the teacher suggests examining the belief that it will be "too much."
When Feeling Seems Like Too Much
A student describes the sense that fully feeling emotions becomes overwhelming, and the teacher suggests examining the belief that it will be "too much."
Otherwise, all the feeling is just too much.
And that's the other side. There's creating space by observing, the distance you're talking about, and then there's diving fully into it, where it feels like it's too much. The suggestion would be to explore: how is it really too much?
It's like it takes over the group, or takes over a conversation with my mother where it needed to be about her.
Yes, but you can regulate that. When you were with your mother, you contained it. And in the group now, you can decide how much to contain.
The two directions
But then there are other times where you could fully make space to go the other way. One direction is to create space through a certain distance of paying attention. The other is to fully let yourself be taken by it, where it would feel like it's too much.
I would suggest looking at the "it's too much" or "it will be too much" as a worry, as an anxiety, and as something to, in a sense, test or ignore. Because that belief is what's going to keep you from actually fully feeling.
Yeah. Okay.
Thank you for sharing.