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What if the choice is not in whether to feel but how to interact with?

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I think we feel things, and there's no choice. I don't know how one can be healthy and not FEEL. What we do with those feelings is a choice. That's what I'm trying to say. Then I would add that feeling FEAR and acting on and through fear can be unhealthy.

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Ah the tyranny of words!

Key players in my life have gone to great lengths not to feel and to suppress my feelings as well. No it isn't healthy.

And back to fear... I wonder if what you're speaking to is being reactive in fear?

What I'm trying express is that fear is my body telling me I don't feel safe (and forgive me if I am being repetitive) I would say it is my body loving me.

Maybe I don't feel safe around someone and need to draw boundaries. Maybe there is something else that needs attention.

Or maybe it's really old and it needs expression in some way.

Or maybe a 'health' organization, that I trust, is telling me I'm going to die if I don't do this or that, or that that person over there who seems perfectly healthy is a threat to me. And so I get victimized and reactive in my fear (which could look like anger).

But it isn't fear itself that is problem, it is the use of it to control another.

You and I likely completely agree, we are just expressing it differently.

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I felt fear, initially, but I recognized that the so-called vaccines had not gone through the normal approval process. That recognition, over time, made me doubt all the propaganda.

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