Re: icky nada email creepies

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Lynda! It is SO hard at such times to keep yourself working

and grounded in the outside world, but it is just what's needed to combat

dissociation. But I really didn't feel like it was all out of me until I

emailed two friends, exchanged on the list, and told the story ad naseum in

person to a friend, over dinner, and then did a ten page journal entry. And

this is just for glancing at three sentences. That is so much effort!! But I

am through it now.

Best wishes,

Charlie

>

> Dear Charlie, I know what you mean about the whole body response to Nada. It

is all encompassing and so hard to shake, because it goes beyond rational

thought. When it happens to me it is debilitating and I feel absolutely stuck in

the feeling.

>

> For me the whole concept of detachment helps. The idea that your emotions and

thoughts are not you and trying to watch them like they are a movie playing.

Sometimes giving the intensity a score out of 10 at various times in the day can

be useful too because that helps with the idea of impermanence and re enforces

that you will move through this feeling. I know it can feel like a permanent

state when it happens!

>

> Oh, and exercise. If you can, get out for a walk and you could even try a

walking meditation where you bring all of your thoughts back to the present and

focus on sights, smells, sounds etc.

>

> And I also think absolutely keep talking about it as often as you need to. I

can relate to that feeling of needing an outsider to help move through these

difficult emotions and I sometimes don't know what I would do without my close

friends and family and this group.

>

> Well, I hope at least some of this can be helpful to you. Just some ideas that

work for me I guess.

> Good luck getting your work done. You can do it!

>

> Keep posting.

>

> With warmth,

> Lynda

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Lynda! It is SO hard at such times to keep yourself working

and grounded in the outside world, but it is just what's needed to combat

dissociation. But I really didn't feel like it was all out of me until I

emailed two friends, exchanged on the list, and told the story ad naseum in

person to a friend, over dinner, and then did a ten page journal entry. And

this is just for glancing at three sentences. That is so much effort!! But I

am through it now.

Best wishes,

Charlie

>

> Dear Charlie, I know what you mean about the whole body response to Nada. It

is all encompassing and so hard to shake, because it goes beyond rational

thought. When it happens to me it is debilitating and I feel absolutely stuck in

the feeling.

>

> For me the whole concept of detachment helps. The idea that your emotions and

thoughts are not you and trying to watch them like they are a movie playing.

Sometimes giving the intensity a score out of 10 at various times in the day can

be useful too because that helps with the idea of impermanence and re enforces

that you will move through this feeling. I know it can feel like a permanent

state when it happens!

>

> Oh, and exercise. If you can, get out for a walk and you could even try a

walking meditation where you bring all of your thoughts back to the present and

focus on sights, smells, sounds etc.

>

> And I also think absolutely keep talking about it as often as you need to. I

can relate to that feeling of needing an outsider to help move through these

difficult emotions and I sometimes don't know what I would do without my close

friends and family and this group.

>

> Well, I hope at least some of this can be helpful to you. Just some ideas that

work for me I guess.

> Good luck getting your work done. You can do it!

>

> Keep posting.

>

> With warmth,

> Lynda

>