| The mental and emotional baggage we bring with us | | | | certain that you have attached to a thought that is |
| following an abusive relationship can be as disturbing | | | | not true for you. You are attached to a thought that |
| as the relationship itself. What can you do to relieve | | | | doesn't express your highest good. |
| yourself of the consequence of destructive mental | | | | If you put that thought to inquiry, as Byron Katie |
| chatter, or a relentless thought that colors your day | | | | says, you may discover other thoughts that are |
| and brings you down or spirals you into states of | | | | more true for you. And the original thought may |
| anguish? | | | | indeed let go of you, leaving you without the feeling |
| Mental-Emotional-Physical States | | | | of emotional distress. |
| We know from psycho-physiology that a thought in | | | | Letting Go of the Post Abuse Thinking |
| the cortex triggers a limbic (emotional brain) | | | | If you are a domestic abuse survivor, I'm certain that |
| hypothalamic-pituitary response, which merely causes | | | | you have your fair share of emotional distress. |
| specific glandular reactions and subsequent body | | | | Consider the fact that these feeling states are the |
| system effects to occur. | | | | outcome of thoughts that are actually not true for |
| Now I don't want to lose you in the academia here; | | | | you. |
| rather, I want you to know that your thoughts are | | | | They are thoughts that block who and what you |
| intimately tied to your emotions and to your physical | | | | authentically are. And once you investigate these |
| experiencing of feeling states. | | | | thoughts you re-open to the peace and well-being |
| Your Thoughts Are Not You | | | | that is truly YOU. |
| If you are feeling emotional distress, you can be | | | | |