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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
Our body knows what is and isn't acceptable. We just can't hear its messages often because we've been trained to dismiss them, to disconnect from our basic senses and to distrust them. Learning how to trust your body wisdom could be scary and can bring a considerable degree of pain. But it also brings liberation..This was my way of going back to "normal"..
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I really wonder. My T tells me that deep inside I know and feel what is right, what is acceptable and what isn't. But how about culutural differences then? Why we accept certain things other cultures probably don't? There seems to be an aspect that has been taught and shapes the emotions towards these topics...
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Originally Posted by Mastodon
But yes, I do think that there is a connection between knowing something intellectually and knowing it at an emotional level. I don't think the connection is automatic, I believe that it may need to be reinforced a lot. But if intellectual knowledge didn't help, there would be no chance for me to ever get better, so I have to believe that it does. (And I know for a fact that it does, so I'm not particularly worried on that score. There is a lot of research on the subject.)
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I'd like to believe that we can actually train this connection between thinking and feeling. that when we learn certain things are wrong, we can start to feel it too. It would help a lot, I think.
But then of course, that system would be very fragile too, as it could easily be manipulated by others... Conditioning us in ways that are not supporting us.
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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut
I think you can intellectually know things and still have emotional difficulty understanding it. Take a ptsd reaction: you can intellectually know something is not likely happening again in the moment but still have a difficult time regulating emotions around it. I get physical flashbacks. I can look and see the event is not currently happening, but it doesn't charge the emotional reaction to the memory of it (at least not yet).
intellectual awareness helps, but it doesn't necessarily make it easy to change.
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Definitely, it's because so often these two are not aligned that I started wondering. You can know a that certain thing is wrong but still not feel it that exact same way. Or the other way around.
And I wonder whether the intellectual awareness alone could get one out of there.