10 tweets · July 2019 · 0 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
@knottierwith Having taken Doug's workshop, my perspective is something like: most people have barely ever let their emotional brains speak at all. This means that there's little room for feelings to bear NEW info about new situations. Instead, they feel rejected bc of childhood rejection.
@knottierwith I've done Bio-Emotive process ~daily for the last few weeks, & I've already learned a tremendous amount about the past & present, from feeling my feelings. AND when it's about the past, it does tend to produce a letting go of the feeling. But that's diff than letting go of info.
@knottierwith Feelings *want* to move, in my experience. So "discharge it" is more like discharging... a sneeze? Or your bladder? Or something like that? It's a release of pressure that wanted to be released. The experience is very different than trying to "get rid of" the feelings somehow.
@knottierwith Ooh! An even better analogy. You know how when someone says something that reminds you of something you want to say, and there's a kind of pressure towards saying it, that gets released when you do? (And can be distracting if the convo moves on before you get a chance)
@knottierwith So basically the exact same thing happens with feelings, except most people don't know how to express their feelings at all, so it becomes a distraction because life moves on without it getting expressed. And then it's harder to express later because it's inappropriate.
@knottierwith The "harder to express later" thing is interesting, and an interesting counterpoint to the exchange over here that got us talking in the first place! twitter.com/knottierwith/s…
@knottierwith I've got a bunch of unpublished blog post drafts from 2-3 years ago, and some of them are simple models that could be edited & published now. But others are... ways I was making sense of things then, that I now consider inaccurate or confused, so I wouldn't want to just publish🤔
@knottierwith ie it wouldn't make any sense to publish them as if I'd written them this week. But, while confused, those structures (a) would probably still be useful to others and (b) are still helpful landmarks in my own conceptual landscape. So I sorta still want to publish them?
@knottierwith I mean part of me wishes I had just published them at the time, even given their need for clarity-edits. But then, idk, I might have gotten more fixated on them despite their confusions!
@knottierwith I think I need a second blog or something, where I can just put writing so I can link to it if need be, but nobody's following it so it wouldn't actually need to be edited to make sense or whatever. I keep coming back to this idea but I haven't done it...