Scientology is basically about telling people not to react to stimuli and suppressing them. It’s about exercises like being able to say the same sentence for an hour at the same tone of voice without having emotional triggers that disturb the voice.
Practices that are about connecting with the felt sense and giving that felt sense the space to show up and bring any emotional trigger to the forefront do on an important dimension the opposite of what the Scientology tech does.
And then maybe when you think of yourself as “aware of your feelings” that phrase could be unpacked to say that you have a basically accurate metacognitive awareness of which memories or images cause adrenaline spikes, without the active metacognitive awareness itself causing an adrenaline spike.
Being aware of your feelings and being aware of what causes them are two different issues.
As far as Circling goes Circling (as I was taught it) is mostly not about having feeling because of memories or images but feelings caused by the interaction with the other people in the Circle.
Modeling feelings as adrenaline spikes is a bad model and would be a different one. Feelings are not represented by people as high/low adrenaline states. Fear of excitement are both states with with adrenaline but they feel quite different and a person who confuses them isn’t “aware of their feelings” and profits from a practice like Circling or Focusing to learn to get better in touch with their emotions.
Scientology is basically about telling people not to react to stimuli and suppressing them. It’s about exercises like being able to say the same sentence for an hour at the same tone of voice without having emotional triggers that disturb the voice.
Practices that are about connecting with the felt sense and giving that felt sense the space to show up and bring any emotional trigger to the forefront do on an important dimension the opposite of what the Scientology tech does.
Being aware of your feelings and being aware of what causes them are two different issues.
As far as Circling goes Circling (as I was taught it) is mostly not about having feeling because of memories or images but feelings caused by the interaction with the other people in the Circle.
Modeling feelings as adrenaline spikes is a bad model and would be a different one. Feelings are not represented by people as high/low adrenaline states. Fear of excitement are both states with with adrenaline but they feel quite different and a person who confuses them isn’t “aware of their feelings” and profits from a practice like Circling or Focusing to learn to get better in touch with their emotions.