Overcoming Resistance To Mind/body Connection

[Katwonderland]

Can anyway speak to how they have overcome their own petulant resistance to working on greater mind/body attachment? I tend to disassociate a lot, and in the process don't take the best care of myself physically. For example, disordered eating habits leading to digestive issues etc... I know what I need to do to help overcome it and for me a big part is becoming connected to my own body. But I don't want to. When I bring it up in therapy all I can say is that I am "resistant" to doing the things I need to do, like yoga, meditation, cutting down on alcohol/drugs (I'm a bit of a pot head).

I feel stuck. Or at a bit of a stalemate with myself. It feels a like a part of me is showing such huge resistance to doing the things which feel so hard but I know will make me feel better. Even now, writing this I blank on exploring any feelings associated with this.

Has anyone overcome this?

 

[Ronin]

Overcome, not by a large shot.

But doing things because they feel fun / because they're useful / because they give me a sense of power back, and doing them spontaneously when I feel like doing them seems to help. Don't overthink it. Do it, and think while doing it, before you figure out the pattern that seems most helpful and most assistive.

 

[Eagle3]

What Ronin said...

I have to deal with this one a LOT! It is better if I just do what I know to do and quit trying to make excuses or feel things while doing it. Make the new pattern first, then analyze. Easy to say, incredible difficult to do! I have all kinds of things I SHOULD be doing that my T has suggested for reincorporating the mind/body connection, but I'm in a place that has all kinds of mental and physical hindrances to practicing what I need to do.

Yeah, just do it, then figure things out later. And you won't do it on a regular basis at first; just keep plugging along and it will eventually become a new habit.

 

[Katwonderland]

Thank you both for your replies. Definitely a work in progress....