Hi Vineeto,
I think i’m starting to realise how simple actualism is. Getting back to feeling good after noticing a trigger and enjoying/appreciating this moment. It really isn’t much more complicated.
I noticed in the past I would always get stuck trying to “explain” the feeling away which always lead to me going around in circles or eventually solidifying the feeling by some sort of mental gymnastics to feel validated for feeling bad
. I noticed that because i am a feeling being I will always be invested in keeping the bad feelings around. But getting myself back to feeling good first before investigating anything helped immensenly, it also made me realise that if it’s that easy to get back to feeling good, is there any sensible reason to remain feeling bad? Or keeping going back to that feeling? It isn’t a nice feeling at all. From feeling good it is much easier and clearer to sort through whatever triggered me.
It was also helpful for me to realise that I am being my feelings. Realising that means that there is something I can do about it. It isn’t like anger or sadness decends upon me with no involvement from me. I’m also getting better at sitting with whatever feeling I am experiencing, rather than expressing or repressing. Sitting with the feeling to observe it has helped me be able to easily and quickly identify it, realising it isn’t really made of anything substantial and it is much more fun to feel good. It’s not so scary now knowing that I can do something about it whenever I want to.
And yes I am noticing that I am having much more fun with digging around what’s going on. Whereas in the past it was almost like “nope I don’t want to look at it!” and trying to will it away.