Hi, Seth. I had, in 2013 and 2017, a vertigo attack. Since it didn’t stop, I had to call an ambulance, and the other time I went to the hospital, I’ve seen specialists, but they couldn’t find any physical issues. I’m worried it’ll happen again. Now, when I’m in social situations, I feel dizziness, which comes up from the neck and head, and I have anxiety, which makes it worse. I’ve got generalized anxiety and early trauma as well. What can I do?
Call Tag: notice
The second I am asked to think, I lose my awareness of sensation. So sometimes you or Irene will tell us to notice our sensation, or consider if we’re inside or outside our window of tolerance, which all requires thinking, and then I lose my attention to sensation. Any suggestions? I’m so thinking-oriented that I struggle here.
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. I see more and more all the things I do and say to my kids because of my trauma, my reaction to them. But I can’t seem to change my way of behaving. The need to say things when I’m angry is so strong and I can see it’s hurting them. Any idea is how to stop myself. It seems like I react on autopilot.
Exploring the pendulating exercise, I realized for me, pleasant is the absence of pain. Maybe numbness and constriction is over coupled with safety. Pain told me that if it were absent, I would be off ignoring and pushing the body until it hurt. On a walk, struck by the beauty of the light on the leaves, I stood wondering where the sensation, the charge of that pleasure was in my body. Watching a deer, I felt joy, but still couldn’t find sensation. Is pleasure expansion? How to wake pleasure as an internal resource.
I’m having issues with identifying sensations, emotions, and feelings. Both when I’m dysregulated and when I’m doing the neurosensory exercises. I did think I was getting more regulated, but now feel I’ve gotten more dysregulated. Could you please suggest reasons for not being able to identify these? And how can I make progress? It feels like I’m just not getting it at all. I find I’m making guesses to what these sensations or feelings are, and then I later realize that that wasn’t right.
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.
What do I do? I’m going to orient, and I just have all of these thoughts coming in, and I feel distracted, and I can’t pay attention. I want to do this thing.
Let me see. Anything else here. Okay. And then someone else asked, “Every time I do this resistance exercise, I notice a tightness in the chest, throat, and mouth. Something I’ve been dealing with on a daily basis for over a decade. And the first time I did the exercise, the words that came to me were, I choke. How do I know that this is resistance I’m dealing with?”
Another thing that can happen is someone asked about, they noticed that they were able to stay present. There was this big emotion. They had this experience and this big emotion came through and they were able to stay present and notice the feelings of it. And then later on the heels of that, there was big activation, feeling like, I think they said fuzzy.