What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

[goingonhope]

Today has been a gift. An enjoyable, reasonable day. I've accomplished lots and enjoyed special moments. I feel pleased and thankful for today's gifts, much learned, much progress and with having recently survived (and learning from) some most recent difficult times of grief.

 

[Philippa]

Feeling a bit emotionally constipated, and glad I've been banned temporarily from a thread here. I also feel like laughing at the reason why...and also that the decision was a bit unfair and don't really understand it, but also don't care that much about it to bother trying to understand the thinking behind the decision, or disputing it. I have better things to focus on.

I am feeling tense in my neck and shoulders, and can't stop grinding my teeth, from anxiety. I feel terribly lost and I need help. I need grief counseling and cuddles. I am feeling starved of affection, empty and hungry...but couldn't eat a thing.

 

[Philippa]

I feel ashamed, ugly, dirty and like a fraud. I've had some kind of breakdown just before, of uncontrollable sobbing, wailing and crying, that just wouldn't stop for ages. I feel like I have dropped into crisis and considered calling a cat team. I feel scared and don't know what to do? I felt like I was seriously losing the plot. I feel remorse. Feeling very very fragile.

 

[Philippa]

I feel nausea, hopeless, despondant...and more nausea.

 

[therisa]

Anger and tired, are the bests word that I can express, my emotions, after a wasted weekend, being shut-in my apartment.

 

[DharmaGirl]

It has taken Abstract 5 years of mindfulness to get improvement, so feeling a bit overwhelmed.

It only took me 2 weeks to see improvement. I continue to improve but I could see results almost right away.

Oops, that sounds really braggy. I didn't mean it to, I just think it can take how ever long it takes. I had experience with it in my teens.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Today I feel afraid. I'm afraid for others who are having a bad time. I am afraid for myself since I sent letters of complaint about a trip to the hospital. I'm just afraid.

 

[Abstract]

You are very brave doing what you did despite being afraid. That is what courage is all about. I hope you feel safer soon.

Abstract 5 years of mindfulness

Actually to be specific it was not mindfulness as such and was rather the entire process of learning about emotions, identifying them, managing them better, stopping being phobic of them or acting them out unhealthily all the time and starting to develop healthy means of coping with them. Mindfulness was just a little of that and I only learned of it about 4 years on out of those five odd years or so. Five minutes after reading the concept of mindfulness I already had a moment of clarity. I am grateful for what I have managed and I have a lot to learn still. I had an extremely unhealthy relationship with my own emotions, thoughts and experiences before this. I even thought I had never really been angry! :rolleyes: Even learning what I was not experiencing took a long time.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I was wondering if Ms. Spock was talking about something different because I know you are a very capable person who has a lot of self-awareness and I didn't think it would take you 5 years. If I thought about it more I could have made a better post. You have been a mentor for me the whole time I've been here (whether you knew it or not), and I get so much from your posts.

 

[Abstract]

Don't you worry Monster. I was not offended and just thought I would straighten things out. ;)

Thanks for your kind words. :notworthy: You have helped me a lot too.

 

[amethist]

Today I am trying to keep hold of that feeling of peace and a slower pace of life we experienced while on holiday. There was no rushing about on the island, even the tide came in and went out at a slow pace.

 

[Lucycat]

Tired, cold, anxious.