Firstly, thanks Ben for promoting this, because I hadn’t seen it the first time through.
I don’t know if the thing I am doing is too unrelated, but often when I notice myself feeling something generally negative, I will trace it back to its root cause. These are usually specific things that happened or that I’m worried about, and not big overarching things.
But figuring out what it is or naming it doesn’t make the feeling go away. I’ll KNOW why I’m feeling anxious/ frustrated/ whatever, but there doesn’t generally seem to be anything useful to do with that information, and I have to continue feeling the negative emotion until it fades away on its own with the passage of time.
That sounds like the tracing back that you are doing, might be an intellectual kind of analysis of why you feel that way? In general, an intellectual analysis doesn’t make feelings go away, whereas something like Focusing is much better at it.
Firstly, thanks Ben for promoting this, because I hadn’t seen it the first time through.
I don’t know if the thing I am doing is too unrelated, but often when I notice myself feeling something generally negative, I will trace it back to its root cause. These are usually specific things that happened or that I’m worried about, and not big overarching things.
But figuring out what it is or naming it doesn’t make the feeling go away. I’ll KNOW why I’m feeling anxious/ frustrated/ whatever, but there doesn’t generally seem to be anything useful to do with that information, and I have to continue feeling the negative emotion until it fades away on its own with the passage of time.
That sounds like the tracing back that you are doing, might be an intellectual kind of analysis of why you feel that way? In general, an intellectual analysis doesn’t make feelings go away, whereas something like Focusing is much better at it.