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Originally Posted by sweepy62
Last week's session was a new thing we started, some silence, and this thing called body scan, where , we closed our eyes and she did some guided meditation with it. I don't like silence, for one, also she says it's for emotional regulation. If you don't know, I suffer from gad, bp1, ptsd, bpd. We haven't gone too much into trauma work, due to , stressors, and I was manic last year, ect... She wants me to get in tune with my feelings. I don't get the part about, where are you feeling your anger, or sadness ? What part of the body ect.. she wants me to answer, what sensations I'm feeling . Name my feelings. It's all so confusing. I know anger ,sad. Has anyone done or currently doing this?
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Yes, it's called somatic experiencing and my T does it all the time. She asks me the same question: where are you feeling it in your body. I usually say " I don't know". Like yesterday when I said I was sad. Where do you feel the sadness? She helps me by asking "in your chest"? I rarely feel anything there. I say "my stomach" because it hurts. T asked if I can feel my legs, my arms? I usually say yes, but yesterday I didn't think I felt anything, and said I felt like I was floating. That's when she put her feet on top of mine. Of course she asked if she could do that first.
The emotions are all in my head, T says. I'm always in my head. She wants me to learn that our bodies hold our feelings so the sensations we feel are important. When I'm in session and anxious, I hold my breath a lot. T points this out and she gives me ways to calm down.
I hated the body stuff at first but now I'm used to it even though I still don't know where I feel my feelings. I'd suggest giving it time. Also, have you taken DBT? There's a whole module on emotional regulation. I need work on that too. The breathing, guided meditation, body scan, are ways to quiet your body, which then quiets your mind. It does work!