Posted by 64bowtie on October 13, 2004, at 14:28:42
In reply to my experience » shrinking violet, posted by shortelise on October 13, 2004, at 9:54:23
SE,
> I would find that I'd sort of go to a place where I was not exactly the present day me, but a place where those feelings seemed to live in me - maybe the genesis of the feelings.
> ...
> It was confusing often because I would feel things in different terms than I do usually - when they were really early things, and there is a very strong, terribly influential core feeling that comes from then, I am pre-verbal, so it's hard to do anything but just sit in the feeling as I have no words to express it.
> ...<<< ...the trick is for us to always come back from that place you describe. What happens if we don't? Perhaps internal-conflictedness continues? Without our therapist's guidance, can we escape from the trap of internal-conflict? When we begin to escape, a light opens up at the end of a long tunnel, and we become aware of "freedom" from the torment and the torture. "Freedom" then draws us toward itself, urging us to overcome our habits and proclivities of dysfunction. We might loose a "friend" or two, but we are after a life of our own, finally, as adults.
Rod
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