Post Traumatic Stress Support Group

Yes, part of healing is not only feeling bad but being able to have all our emotions, ready and free to use. Feeling bad, may change the way it feels to us, if we do not identify with it. In fact, we can be at ease and happy when the emotion of feeling bad arrives.

Feeling bad is part of healing, a normal emotion. We do not have to destroy or eliminate it; just realize it is only an emotion. Try letting the emotion exist by itself just for a second.

Follow our breath with stillness, observing the emotion at an arm’s length. It would be like watching yourself on Television. The emotion can be there without us. The emotion is a body function, not anything to do with the true self or us. The ability to be totally aware of feeling bad without identifying with it, changes everything.

Practice with easy emotions and thoughts at first, and then tackle more difficult ones, later.

I agree. Each emotion must be indentifyed and not thrown into the basket with all the others. You will be searching and searching and getting nowhere. Working on one thing at a time and taking baby steps and to identify makes sence and becomes easy.

( Hope To Cope ) Scott

Exactly, baby steps however it is taking action which , I believe it takes to heal. I found my thoughts to be delusions. They had just learned to flip the switch to my flight or fight mechanism. It is temporary and can be unplugged.