I carry emotional stress in my spine, right between my shoulder blades. And also in my hips. I find that if I can stretch these areas, and keep them flexible and open, my anxiety and nervous system becomes calmer.
I think I feel different types of emotions in different places. A deep sorrow rides in my hips. Fear rests heavily on my shoulders. Anxiety balls itself in my throat. Craving unmet lays across my chest. I think the beautiful thing is that joy balloons and can sort of be everywhere.
This sounds really challenging, but I like the process you've implemented to help reduce it a bit. And I have to apologize, but I actually dropped my empty metal water bottle at the airport today and it made the loudest, never-ending, worst sound. I did scream an expletive.
I feel stress in my upper left back. It's not really stress though, what I've learned over the years it's my misalignment signal. Something is off between my truth and my life direction, and usually that's scary to uncover. But whenever I identify and acknowledge what it is... miraculously, it disappears.
That's so cool that you've narrowed the sensation down to misalignment. I'm finding these signals are actually helpful when I take the time to investigate them.
As to your metal water bottle, sorry, you are banned forever from any place with hard floors, hahahahaha
This is all so helpful and challenging. And i hate the metal bottle sound. It happens in class a lot and it jangles my nerves. Makes me think of the submarine hitting the mine in "finding nemo"
I carry emotional stress in my spine, right between my shoulder blades. And also in my hips. I find that if I can stretch these areas, and keep them flexible and open, my anxiety and nervous system becomes calmer.
Yessss, this is a great idea.
I think I feel different types of emotions in different places. A deep sorrow rides in my hips. Fear rests heavily on my shoulders. Anxiety balls itself in my throat. Craving unmet lays across my chest. I think the beautiful thing is that joy balloons and can sort of be everywhere.
Great post, Katharine.
So beautifully put! I've never felt anything in my hips before, but this seems to be a common area for people I do yoga with!
This sounds really challenging, but I like the process you've implemented to help reduce it a bit. And I have to apologize, but I actually dropped my empty metal water bottle at the airport today and it made the loudest, never-ending, worst sound. I did scream an expletive.
I feel stress in my upper left back. It's not really stress though, what I've learned over the years it's my misalignment signal. Something is off between my truth and my life direction, and usually that's scary to uncover. But whenever I identify and acknowledge what it is... miraculously, it disappears.
That's so cool that you've narrowed the sensation down to misalignment. I'm finding these signals are actually helpful when I take the time to investigate them.
As to your metal water bottle, sorry, you are banned forever from any place with hard floors, hahahahaha
This is all so helpful and challenging. And i hate the metal bottle sound. It happens in class a lot and it jangles my nerves. Makes me think of the submarine hitting the mine in "finding nemo"
I'm so glad you found it helpful.
And I shudder to think of how many metal bottle drops teachers must deal with!