[Brightheart]

...therapy has given you a new-found ability to pull the stuff from your unconscious mind back into your conscious mind? I feel that I can do this now. I have methods to bring those inner-most feelings out where they can be explored. I even recognize the emotional feeling inside that tells me when I need to do it. My T also gets "inside my head" as if he is trying to tell me something. It's kind of neat actually... if you can find peace with what you find out about yourself anyway...

[paddym22]

Would you mind expanding a bit more and telling us how and what methods you use to do this.

Thanks

Paddy

[chaotic13]

Therapy has made me much more aware of what the noise in my head is saying. Before it was like a radio set to scan. I would hear static and bits and pieces of dialog but the channel would change or I would change the station before really comprehending the message.

[skeksi]

Oh, chaotic, that is such a good description.

[Brightheart]

I suppose I meant when you have to ask yourself (or your T asks you) an important question about something and you have to somehow find the answer without actually knowing the answer. Does that make any sense?

I use a method kind of like brain straining...trying to squeeze the answers out of the hidden recesses of your mind. Or thinking really hard... It used to be unbelievably difficult for me when I first started therapy and I needed lots of suggestions from him. But this past week I was able to come up with the answers on my own. It's kind of cool in a way. Like therapy opens up your mind in some way that it's never been open before and you can see things you hadn't. I hope that doesn't sound too weird...

[fallenangel337]

Originally Posted by Bether91068

I suppose I meant when you have to ask yourself (or your T asks you) an important question about something and you have to somehow find the answer without actually knowing the answer. Does that make any sense?

This sort of happens to me a lot!

I've always kind of had a gift for perception, so digging into my unconscious for answers hasn't really ever been that difficult for me. It was always something I had to access, but it's usually as simple as walking into another room. T realizes that this is true, not only in therapy, but in my home life as well. However, there are some things that are locked way down deep in my personal dungeon that it takes a crap load of time to break through. T has been good at helping me access that part of my unconscious.