Are You Feeling Nothing?

Do you have a spouse and children, a job you go to everyday and a life that appears busy and full, and yet on the inside you feel numb?   If you are simply going through the motions of a life but feel nothing, learn why feeling something, anything, is better than feeling nothing at all.

 

1. Ask yourself: Are you flat-lined? 
   • Feeling something, anything, is better than feeling nothing at all.
   • Being “flat-lined” means we do not react appropriately.  Everything seems the “same”.
   • You also lose your sense of humor.

 

1. When the mind is on overload, the heart closes.
   • You have to feel to have a good life.
   • If all your energy is above the neck, the mind is racing and the heart stays closed.
   • Quieting the mind is the key to moving the energy from above the neck to below it, into the heart area.  This is where you feel things.

 

1. Alcohol, drugs and medication make you more numb.   Stop these.
   • Sometimes we just need a break from the frantic-ness and don’t know the right way to slow it down.  We take medication to better deal but then end up not dealing at all. 
   • If you do not feel “at home” in your own body, you are most probably over-medicated.
   • Alcohol and drugs are band-aids that will eventually be ripped off to expose the wound below.

 

1. Be brave and stop making excuses.  Be brutally honest with yourself.
   • You did not get here overnight and you will not be “cured” tomorrow. 
   • Along the way you made lots of decisions that were not in your best interest and now you are living the results of those decisions.  It will take time to chart a new course and feel the result of these new decisions.
   • Unless you are willing to do the work, nothing will ever change.

 

1. Feeling is our natural state – feel just one thing to begin the process.
   • Sometimes when we have been shut down for a long time, beginning to feel is an arduous process.  We have to re-train ourselves to not retreat emotionally, to not abuse drugs and alcohol, and to not over-medicate. 
   • Stepping into life takes bravery and requires stick-to-it-ness. 
   • When you are willing to what it takes to change old ways that no longer work, you are rewarded with feeling.

 

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