| The mind-emotion-body connection is something | | | | localize in that region. |
| some of us take for granted, while others remain in | | | | By staying with this bodily "felt sense" with bare |
| awe. I do both. | | | | attention (i.e., not analyzing; instead, merely |
| Now here is a little psychological insight that will open | | | | witnessing), words can then bubble up as though to |
| doors for your recovery from psychological, mental | | | | articulate (explicate) what's internally meaningful. As |
| and emotional abuse. | | | | renowned psychologist Gene Gendlin, showed me in |
| Go ahead and get your coffee or herbal tea because | | | | the 70's: what's implicitly meaningful becomes explicit. |
| we're going to have another one of those | | | | Releasing the Thought Driving the Distressful |
| psychological conversations. | | | | Experience |
| Thought-Emotion-Physiology | | | | Now once the words speak themselves, you have |
| When a little thought registers in our minds-when we | | | | the thought behind the distressful experience. If you |
| intentionally or unconsciously think a thought-limbic | | | | put that thought to inquiry, guess what happens? |
| system activation occurs. Now the limbic system is | | | | You will discover that you have indeed attached to a |
| the emotional brain. It's the place in the brain where | | | | thought that is NOT true for you. It is a thought that |
| emotion registers. | | | | has separated you from what is more authentically |
| This limbic system activation triggers a | | | | YOU. |
| hypothalamic-pituitary response, as though the | | | | As the work of Byron Katie demonstrates so |
| emotional brain is telling the primitive brain how to | | | | eloquently, once this cognitive lie makes itself |
| gear up in order to prepare the body to meet the | | | | apparent, that is once your story is seen as no more |
| demands of what IS...what lies before you. | | | | than just "a story," then the thought can let go of |
| Now this primitive brain (hypothalamic-pituitary) | | | | you. |
| triggers specific glandular activation that subsequently | | | | And once this happens, the emotional distress |
| sparks specific body system responses that prepare | | | | associated with that thought vanishes, leaving you at |
| the body to carry out the necessary action, or | | | | peace with yourself emotionally and psychologically. I |
| inaction, to meet the demands before it. | | | | have both experienced and witnessed this thousands |
| So it is apparent that the thoughts we think and the | | | | of times and to this day I still hold reverence and |
| images we hold in our mind's eye yield what we feel | | | | awe around the precision of this psychotherapeutic |
| and how we act, right? | | | | technique for healing emotional abuse. |
| Finding the Thought Behind Distressful Experience | | | | Now I'm aware that I have provided you with some |
| Now let's imagine that you are experiencing the | | | | rather esoteric practices here, but I promise you that |
| emotional distress associated with current or past | | | | inside this article is a message of hope. In summary:a) |
| verbal, mental or emotional abuse. | | | | You can pick your thoughts.b) You can find the |
| You feel the upset emotionally. And, fortunately for | | | | thought behind emotional distress.c) You can engineer |
| you, you can find the thought that is driving this | | | | the release of thoughts that cause emotional |
| emotional discomfort. Here's how. | | | | discomfort. |
| If you close your eyes and pay attention to the part | | | | In a nutshell, you can heal the emotional pain from |
| of the body where you usually feel things, chances | | | | psychological, mental and emotional abuse. |
| are the emotional distress will both magnify and | | | | |