We're often encouraged to "feel our feelings" as a route to healing and greater self-awareness, but what does it even mean? And exactly how does one go about it?
This episode explores:
- The difference between feelings and emotions
- How to tease apart physical vs emotional sensations
- Why sense-making gets in the way of us feeling feelings in our bodies
- Ash's dating life, and how it feels - literally
- And we leave you with a mini-challenge to try out in your own life, to work at becoming a better emotional connoisseur
Show notes:
“You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Feelings—Your Brain Creates Them,” TED Talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett
“Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over,” Michaeleen Doucleff, Dec. 30, 2013
100 Days of Rejection Therapy from Jia Jiang
Misattribution of Fear for Arousal (the scary bridge study), Dutton & Aron (1974) chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/03/Dutton-Aron-1974-arousal.pdf
Follow along with Daron's guided exercise, Emotional Meteorology: https://daronlarson.substack.com/p/emotional-meteorology
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