| Often times the emotion domestic abuse victims | | | | bodily sensation when you are upset or disturbed in |
| survivors feel is so intense it seems like it could | | | | any way. |
| consume you. I think this is partly due to the isolation | | | | Now stay with this.... You will notice that as you pay |
| that characterizes the syndrome. | | | | attention to the part of the body where you |
| There aren't a lot of people to talk to about what's | | | | normally feel things, what will happen is words will |
| going on and many times there is no one at all. The | | | | bubble up ...bringing meaning to what's felt. |
| emotion builds internally until it feels as though it may | | | | With some back and forth inquiry, those words can |
| implode onto itself. | | | | move/transform the emotional distress-sometimes |
| Experiential Focusing and Emotional Healing | | | | subtly and sometimes dramatically. Ultimately one |
| Don't let that happen. Here's what you can do. It's a | | | | discovers, in doing this, a shift: an experiential shift |
| little procedure that is an excellent way of moving | | | | that actually leaves you different with respect to |
| psychological, emotional and mental distress forward. | | | | what previously troubled you. |
| It's called "experiential focusing," originally introduced | | | | Your Emotional Healing |
| by Eugine Gendlin in the 60's. | | | | Now I know it's hard to follow something like this |
| Here's how it goes. In the moment you feel the | | | | from the written word as it is happening. Read this |
| distress, close your eyes and let your attention fall | | | | to yourself over and over and enact these little |
| inward...first notice your breath as it moves in and out | | | | instructions next time you are having some |
| of your body. | | | | emotional, psychological or mental distress. |
| Then as you feel some inward settling and orientation | | | | You will be moved to notice how you can actually |
| from within, pay attention to the part of the body | | | | move the emotion...how you can discover what's |
| where you normally feel things. | | | | under the emotion...how you can create your own |
| Possibly this is in your gut, your chest, your | | | | emotional healing. |
| shoulders, your neck...wherever you typically feel | | | | |