SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Splashing in the Feels
Day 13, 50 questions for deep self-reflection
This is day 13 of the 50 Questions for Deep Self-Reflection challenge from Know Thyself Heal Thyself created by Diana C.
DAY THIRTEEN: How can practicing feeling your feelings fully, even when it is deeply uncomfortable, benefit you?
Short answer:
In every way possible!
Extended answer:
- I can connect more completely with myself
- I can practice self-care in the acceptance of my feels
- I can connect more deeply with my characters and thus reflect their emotions more deeply
- I can notice my reactions, therefore, allowing me to recognize triggers
- I can explore my beliefs to see if they still serve me and replace them with better beliefs
- I can enhance my empathy for others
- I can enhance my empathy for myself
- I can FEEL and release
- I can learn to quieten myself and allow my energy to flow as it needs
- I can allow my energy to clean out or enhance
Longest answer:
I was going to break it all down but, I feel like this one, I’ve hit everything hard and fast. Feeling my feelings fully only has benefits and yes, even in the uncomfortableness for even in a negative feeling, to feel it fully, to sit with it, splash around for a little while, and acknowledge it, is to give self-care. I feel it is better to give that to myself than to get stuck in the silly rhetoric of ‘that’s bad and I shouldn’t feel that way’? And that goes for negative AND positive feels. Who taught me that. Who said that?
Oh, oh I know who said it — and it was never me.
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