How do I know what to do?” Lots of questions about, ” What exercise do I apply when? How do I know what to do when I’m feeling a lot of high emotion? What to do if there’s, say, movements, I have movements coming, but it’s always the same, nothing changes?
Call Tag: energy
I’m feeling I have this high intensity happening, and I’m noticing the sensations, and I’m orienting, but now what?
It’s my third round of SBSM, and now I’m in a state where I just want to be left alone. I don’t want to play with the kids, or do anything with them. I feel so annoyed and irritated. It’s like I’m a child myself with this behavior. I’m finding it hard to change how I feel and act. Any ideas what to especially work with, which lesson?
I’m 51 and in a loving relationship for 11 years. I’ve since the start, had my nervous system going into a hypervigilant mode around my partner’s involvement with his ex and his kids, which feels like a big threat to my internal safety. It’s all above board in doing the right thing from his part. I think I’ve got complex PTSD from being exposed to this regularly. I was born breached with hip joints not developed properly and was put into a contraption for a few early weeks and I never cried and I slept a lot and I wasn’t interested in feeding. Freeze? Any advice?
I’m confused about how I’m supposed to use all the exercises that I’ve learned so far.
“Irene had a great interview at the Sleep Super conference. She mentioned the low tone dorsal for rest digest and the high dorsal tone, which is freeze, and the sympathetic system activated at the same time. I’m a bit confused about high and low tone dorsal. Is this the same as high and low vagus tone? And I have heard that you should have a high vagus tone because then you are more balanced. Doesn’t a high vagus tone that is good contradicts the high dorsal tone, which is bad?”
“I found the basic joints exercise helpful and even pleasant to do, possibly because it took my attention away from the deep seeded tension in my face and throat, in particular. My breathing feels constrained by the chronic tension in my throat in an ingrained pattern of shallow breathing, holding my breath for no apparent reason. What are some ways to begin working on relaxing the muscles in the throat to breathe and talk more freely?”
All right. So lots of questions about what to do with activation. Again there’s too many for me to answer individually. So I want to talk in general about what to do with activation when it shows up.
All right. So some questions on resistance. So there’s a question, a few questions, on how to work with the energy of resistance, like Irene talks about in the video.
When you’ve been in some phase of freeze to a degree for your entire life, and start to come out of it a little bit, how do you resist the temptation to use all the energy and become an empty tank again? I accidentally did this after my first round. Both you and Irene had warned us, but I didn’t realize I was doing it, and now I’m running on empty again. I felt alive and awake for the first time in a decade, and it was so exhilarating to use my newfound energy.