I read these comments a few days ago. It prompted me to try applying something inspired by what was written in the post, but immediately on my muscle tension: I slightly Focus on it, then tell myself to “side with” the tension / feeling, while also telling myself that it’s Ok to do so, not trying to “bust” it or put it into words, and using chipmonk’s technique (cf his blog) to explore resistance around being seen displaying “the underlying emotion”.
I have the very clear impression that it weakens the tension quite fast (just timed it, it took about 30 seconds). I’m not having any insight on what the tension was about specifically.
That’s purely subjective experience report, might be heavily biased.
I read these comments a few days ago. It prompted me to try applying something inspired by what was written in the post, but immediately on my muscle tension: I slightly Focus on it, then tell myself to “side with” the tension / feeling, while also telling myself that it’s Ok to do so, not trying to “bust” it or put it into words, and using chipmonk’s technique (cf his blog) to explore resistance around being seen displaying “the underlying emotion”.
I have the very clear impression that it weakens the tension quite fast (just timed it, it took about 30 seconds). I’m not having any insight on what the tension was about specifically.
That’s purely subjective experience report, might be heavily biased.