When it feels very intense, is this helpful, and a sign of progress or something getting in the way? How to work with this intensity?
Call Tag: titration
I need guidance for what to do after I attend to what arises with all my attention, presence, connection, movement, sounds, et cetera, and feel, and I reach my limit, but the sensations and the body remain very loud. All my resources and activities aren’t enough to soothe or get the break and space I need from the loudness. The intensity of the distressing internal physical sensations feel like they continue and it feels like there’s more work to do, but there’s an overload too. So I feel caught in a high distress with these two as the only options.
And then another piece was sort of about coffee and stimulants, other things like that that can sort of run into the realm of addiction, and, “How do I stop using a resource that maybe isn’t the best for me internally?
I’ve seen a rolfer, and there was some good cries, but then the tension increased afterwards.
Okay. Now another thing on this was someone had a big release, a big activation, a big release. And then for a week, I think they said, after, they were feeling shivers, feverish, chills, like flu-like symptoms. And their practitioner said, “Yeah, that is freeze lifting from your system.” And they asked, “Is that actually true?”
I am a perfectionist, a high achiever, and I’m currently going through a burnout. I’m disciplined and I’m used to making myself do things that I don’t want to. When Irene says we shouldn’t really give into resistance, what I hear her say is that we should do something even if we don’t want to. Is this correct? And if so, how does this fit in with following your impulse framework? I feel like not listening to my internal voices is what got me to this unhealthy state in the first place. Yeah, I just need some clarity here. When I hear her say we should do something even if we don’t want to, is that what she means about resistance