to reduce emotional numbness.
Why does emotional numbness happen?
Numbness is protection your body learned when feeling did not feel safe.
What do you do to start feeling again?
To change it, you practice self compassion.
You notice what you feel instead of shutting it down.
You sit with feelings without judging or fixing them.
You learn skills like breathing, naming emotions, setting boundaries, and asking for support.
How does your body learn it is safe to feel again?
Emotional numbness once helped you survive.
Self compassion is how you slowly teach your body that it is safe to feel again and talk about disappointment and overwhelm.
More guides:
When you keep suppressing emotions:
When you keep suppressing emotions,
Emotional numbness is often not emptiness:
You know that strange moment when someone asks, "How are you feeling?" and your mind goes blank.
3 different survival strategies, all about feeling safe:
Explore the NextSelf Blog. Start with this post explaining the world of souls, and what does it mean to be light? And my Youtube. Content is published to this facebook first and a few days later, to the blog.
The blog lists all the difference patterns to study, understanding patterns is how one can develop 'Daas' [felt knowing].
Content does not provide medical services or professional counseling, and it is not a substitute for professional medical care.