Sometimes we don’t know what we are feeling. We kind of know we should be feeling something but we don’t. Or we never feel anything special. Or there is one emotion that is strangely missing from our repertoire. In short, we are emotionnally challenged. I know what it feels like to be cut off from one’s emotions. In my case, it amounted to seeing life passing me by without my active participation. I hated it. But I still couldn’t feel much. I tried to think my way into feelings, as if I could concoct them from the only place inside...
Posts Tagged ‘ Body ’
How to be present in your life
I’m currently reading Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, the latest book from Martha Beck. The author explains how most of us are litterally trapped in our head. We tell endless stories about ourselves, others, and the world, in the privacy of our own mind. Sometimes, these stories are not even true. We are very far from reality, stuck in a dream (or a nightmare). Sometimes, we are closer to the truth, but while we are busy obsessing about how awful a particular incident was (or how unfair, or whatever), we don’t even see the amazing event...
Depression and anxiety magic medication
I resisted exercise for a long time. Nobody around me was exercising. I did not have time. Exercise was boring and difficult. It triggered unpleasant high school memories. I was enduring exercise then. I certainly did not want it as part of my life. Since then, life happened, without exercise for the most part. The result has been that at 40 I started to feel really uneasy with my body. I was not even fat, but just, well, gelatinous. So I gathered all my willpower, bought some good shoes, and hit the road. It has been hard. Since I was...