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The Way We Experience Feeling
The way we experience feeling is actually part of the reason I think people shut down on feeling. How do most people experience feelings? Most of us come to know what we experience through bodily sensation. So think about disappointment or sadness. For many people it's an experience kind of in the chest. And then this heaviness or an experience of helplessness that maybe feels like a gut punch or something else. Anger. It's like surging through your body, raging through your body and you can't stop the sensation. Or embarrassment. You might see the redness. I feel the heat. That what I came to understand is that it's not that we didn't want to feel the whole range