How to Feel Your Emotions When You Just Want Them Gone

How to feel your emotions instead of fixing them, and why every fix keeps the old feeling in place. The Two Voices Test, free field guide: https://start.flowsvia.com/guide-the-... There may be one emotion running underneath your life, showing up everywhere wearing a different dress. At work it wants the presentation perfect. At home it tells you you're burned out and all you can do is lie down. In your hobbies it's back to proving you're valuable. I use my own case. From the outside my life looked fine; inside I felt broken and a little behind, chasing validation from people who weren't asking for any. I hit snooze every morning for five more minutes before I had to start proving myself, and at night my mind ran a highlight reel of everything that went wrong that day. What changed it was smaller than you'd expect. When a message or an email sets you off, don't argue with the words. Find where they're floating in your body — your forehead, your chest, the base of your skull — and let that feeling be there. The task didn't cause the feeling. It only triggered what was already built up. There's a version of this that doesn't work, and I fell into it too: sitting with a feeling while waiting for it to go away. That isn't sitting with it. That's tolerating it. You can do it for hours in meditation and it persists. What does work is letting it stop being a problem, then asking open questions with no answer expected. Solutions are reactions you reach for out of the feeling. Answers arrive light, and often you don't even have to act on them. The same action, even a walk, can be running from the feeling or guidance, depending on where it comes from. There's an experiment at the end to try the next time your mind goes wild. CHAPTERS 00:00 One feeling, a different dress at work, home and play 01:44 My story: fine on the outside, broken inside 04:11 The message that sets you off, and where you feel it 06:37 When a walk is just a way not to feel it 10:24 It didn't cause the feeling, it triggered it 14:30 Why it dissolves once it's no longer a problem 16:34 The trap: sitting with it so it will go away 19:07 Open questions and wonder 22:58 Solutions you chase vs. answers that arrive 26:09 Try this next time + the free Two Voices Test RESOURCES The Two Voices Test — free field guide with three very short checks for noticing which voice is talking: https://start.flowsvia.com/guide-the-... #feelyourfeelings #repressedemotions #innerwork #emotions #feelings #mindfulness