when I feel things, i want to dismiss them. when I want to focus on them and be with them, they go away. its incredibly frustrating because i feel overwhelmed
I have the same, when my unconscious feels the emotions are too much to handle. Try making sitting with whatever you are feeling a daily or otherwise regular habit. It's okay if you feel things like "I rather want to watch tv" or "I'm overwhelmed". These thoughts have emotions at the bottom of them too, so try being with whatever is there, even if it is your braining trying to dismiss an emotion. When you are sitting with your emotions music often helped me stay focused and telling my unconsciousness, that I WANT to feel, I am unconditionally with whatever comes up. Feel love and empathy for yourself. Emotions are very intense, they sometimes almost crush us during childhood. It feels scary and risky to feel them, your brain is giving you what it feels you can take. So show it that you are ready and your emotions will start flowing more and more.
If you have surpressed most of your emotions, you can try focusing on noticing what is going on in a simple positive situation. For example, I started watching little birds play, the sunset or a piece of music I liked. You intentionally invite the emotions in that moment. If nothing comes up, that's okay. Try again another day. Another thought I have is, that you probably do feel some emotion. So focus on the emotions you do have. Feeling your emotions is a practice that takes time. Your brain and body need time to learn that feeling your emotions is now safe and encouraged. On top of that, I can very much recommend you yoga (e.g the videos from yoga with adriene on TH-cam) to feel yourself again, seeing a therapist and focusing on feeling your feelings there in company of another and thirdly journaling. Any kind of practice that helps you take the focus inward. Like I said in my previous comment, Teal's process works no matter if you notice it at first. Make it a regular practice to be with yourself and whatever is or isn't inside of you and you will notice change after some time.
I want to add, emotions in my definition are not only anger and sadness and happiness. It could be frustration during traffic, boredom at work, the feeling of uncomfortable loneliness when you don't have a partner or wish for one, the feeling of emptiness, the feeling of laziness in the morning. So maybe start by noticing these things you already do feel. I wish you all the best. Once I didn't feel much but I noticed I needed emotions to be motivated. So I went on this journey, never stopped no matter how difficult or painful it got. My life is a completely different one now. I have so much energy, I can connect deeply with people, my empathy skyrocketed and every moment can be a little miracle, all because of my emotions. Rain on the skin becomes a super intense experience. So I warmly encourage you to keep trying, even if results down show up as quickly as you might expect.
I hope you can stop pleasing and follow your own bliss and please yourself. No more miss/mr nice. Good luck! Reconnecting with your body might come first, to not stay stuck in the overthinking mode.
Wow I've been emotionally numb & dead for many years as a 40yr man, I have finally awakened the the power of emotions & beliefs in changing my life. Thank you!
How I lost my emotions: I used to be positive all the time and trust people and most of them weren’t trustworthy. I ended up deciding not to trust people again or empathize with them. Through time I started losing my emotions because I don’t use them, and now I feel like a robot with a hollow heart.
Same thing happened to me omg. The same reason and the result of it. I'm numb now. My past was horrible and I'm just 18. I feel numb, angry, frustrated and I don't want anything or anyone. I'm not even living life now😭
7 techniques to re-connect with emotions: 1. (5:11) Reconnect to feelings exercises (3 weeks) 2. (9:54) Trauma about feelings. Do the "Completeness process" (page 139). 3. (11:48) Find core believe behind I don't want to feel. Watch video "How to find a core believe" 4. (14:01) Negative emotions are not wrong 5. (14:54) Go out of comfortable zone, do something new 6. (15:30) Do things that make you feel extreme emotions 7. (16:45) We can't feel because we are inside our minds. Let the mind learn about emotions Watch additional videos for help (17:50): 1. Emptiness 2. The emotional wake up call 3. How to heal the emotional body 4. Happiness is the purpose of your life
I had this problem lately where I can remember memories but I can't feel them.I can't feel nostalgic as I used too.that heart warming sensation is just gone
I just did the exercise I close my eyes and anxiety came up I learn that anxiety is a fear to hide the REAL FEELING So I asked myself What is behind the real feeling . I started to feel scared I ask y u scared It's a trauma I experience over and over again in my early childhood. I told my inner self its OK to be scared. And my body stated to untwine Relax. OK am going to do that again at a higher level. I'll keep you posted. Thank you.
I love that you exist, helping millions of people worldwide to become more aware, integrating and healing aspects of themselves. I hope you never stop sharing your blessing with this world!
thank you Teal for this very important message. Me and most males have had to learn to suppress our most intense feelings(grief for not living the life you would like to have and receiving unconditional love) boys don't cry(still being said by parents and kindergarten teachers)Parents can not cope with these feelings as they feel responsible for their kids happiness and they don't allow these feelings in their kids so they can avoid feeling responsible for not solving their problems. feelings are connection to yr feeling body(soul). We as children are so dependant on our parents who also learnt to suppres "negative" emotions(hurt). They want us to be happy, they wanted kids to make them feel happy and if you as a kid are unhappy(they feel guilty for not being able to make you happy) they become "more" unhappy so having children was not the miracle sollution for their unhappiness. This is very unfortunate. Children are often a byproduct from an unsatisfying life(sex is an emptyness filler) and children are sometimes byproduct of sex, but even wanted children are often idealised as the solution for your emptyness. emptyness can not be filled with sex or child or whatever material goal.
Stellar Fervour this video was targeted more towards those who have a hard time feeling their emotions. I think she has a video about how to manage your emotions for those who feel too much and are overwhelmed by them
Tha'ts funny but you are right, i have been lost in my emotions many times. i had to find someone who can draw faces of the different types of emotions and had him describe to me what each emotion meant and what they feel like.
Yes, someone else's "energy vibrations" overtook my emotionally traumatized self once. It was a good thing the access all my own feelings. I lost my job though which shows the need for balance.
This is so real. It was so difficult for me to learn how to sing and I thought I could never do it. Singing is emotional and it's how you connect with yourself and others. I like totally ignored this part of myself for ever. It took me a whole year of training professionally to get this far and understand what is truly going on with myself
Feeling numb was maybe my worst experience..I told to myself "How bad and blank life can be" .. Really im crying right now for the people who struggle with numbness and negative emotions or anything else .. because i know how much the world suffers i wish everyone to heal and life will teach you many things it is a long journey indeed.Love your videos Teal i can relate to everything you say everything ! Everything makes sense now especially when you referred that quiet voice that is telling you you are in the wrong direction ..and to be honest spiritual videos made me feel not that good..but now i dont know why i feel very relieved and differently maybe its about perspective!
Thank you for this 🙏🏻 I’m 34 and have been a drug addict since I was 14, hard drugs. I completely disconnected from feelings and emotions. This is going to help me so much get back in touch with my true self ❤
Before I stopped feeling things my emotions were going wild. They were up and down and up and down and I remember being very exhausted and just hoping my feelings to calm down. At first when I stopped feeling I felt this wonderful sensation of calmness. It felt wonderful. I remember telling my friend how great it was that I didn't care about things that used to rile me up. It took about a month of that bliss before I started to realize that maybe it wasn't so much that I had found calmness in me but stopped feeling all together. I still find that very interesting because it seems like I was consciously wishing for to stop feeling even if I didn't realize it at the moment. I know that part of me still doesn't want to feel, at least not all the emotions. I'm still afraid what will happen after I open that door. Will I go wild with emotions again? What if I start wanting things that are bad for me and my future? In a sense it's easier to not feel because then you can do whatever seems logical and smart. You are not afraid of things, you don't feel nervous or shame if you mess up. Like I understand why body would in some case scenarios decide to take that road. Because sometimes you can't feel these emotions in order to keep functioning.
I’m 16 and I’ve already got issues with feeling. primarily am just angry or nothing at all. this has really helped me see what I had blocked out for years, not even due to any abuse or anything just lack of guidance to feeling emotionally connected to people
I love you for doing what you are doing Teal! My emotions are what have me in my own prison. Yes, i was told tht getting mad and expressing myself was a bad thing. Getting whipped with my shirt off and not allowed to cry helped me be the monster i was. For many yrs, I roamed this earth not knowing what the hell was wrong with me, why i could not feel pain or my hand touching someone else's hand. I learned to numb my pain when being whipped and to keep my mouth shut when being bullied. I did my best to pretend all was okay when inside I had no idea what i was feeling. The only emotion i had for many yrs was anger. Getting in touch with my emotions will be freaken hard but i must do it. Right now my emotions are rolled up in a negative ball, i have no idea what i am feeling. Thank you for sharing this important video Teal. God Bless you!!
How’s it been, the journey? I am here - actually so sick from repressed emotions, I crashed, bedridden a year.. I don’t know how to ‘feel’, but must to heal..! Any updates pls
Processing emotions and suppressing emotions are not mutually exclusive. Emotions and thoughts can be suppressed temporarily and processed later on. This is especially useful to get work done or to enjoy social events. “Suppressing emotions” is a loose phrase that can mean multiple things: 1. Avoiding analyzing the internal emotions. 2. Avoiding talking about the internal pain externally. 3. Avoiding feeling the internal pain. 4. Avoiding external emotional expressions of internal pain: i.e. crying, screaming, etc. *We should generally analyze the internal pain to an extent. How much we should analyze the internal pain varies from person to person and day to day. *Sometimes we should talk about the situation to others depending on the person and situation. *After some processing, we should force ourselves into healthy, leisurely activities and/or work. How much and when we should force ourselves varies from person to person and day to day. *We should rarely hold back from crying as crying will reduce the pain, even just temporarily. Analyzing or talking about the internal pain is different from analyzing or talking about the external problem. Emotions are not toothpaste in a bottle. After we process them, they often come flooding back later. Often times bringing negative unconscious thoughts to the conscious level (“surfacing”) will trouble people significantly more than they did when they were unconscious. It’s crucial to find a balance where emotions are acknowledged and dealt with without getting stuck in a cycle of rumination.
I just watched thank you Teal. I only feel negative emotions if i feel anything. Anger, frustration...when I get sad I quickly snap out of it. I love to laugh but happiness and joy are hard to discover. I don’t know what to do when someone is crying, i try to say the right things but it feels disingenuous. I hope to learn more as I continue to watch you.
When people hear the truth, they'll recognize it. When people spreak the truth, they do so as well so it seems. Powerful, pleasant (attractive) vibe, along with valuable information. Nice colours (background, chair, dress, you) as well. Excellent video!
I couldn’t be more grateful for you and your teachings, Teal. All my life, beginning from the trauma in my childhood i have felt sadness, hopelessness after my grandmother passed, although I know she is still with me. Living with a depressed alcoholic growing up and seeing things, I have had trouble with connecting with others I know.
I have trouble feeling my own emotions. I've always been able to feel the emotions of others, almost overly empathetic. I often use emotional movies or books to bring out emotions but these aren't mine either, they are often empathetic, I can only really feel through others. I'm glad to find this video. Thank you.
Hello. I have the exact same thing. Glad I found someone who is similar. When I watch certain movies I feel sad, but the tears won't exactly come out, like something is stopping me. However the fact that I ALMOST feel the full emotions show they exist, and that I feel safe to feel them. I had eye surgery when I was younger, which is a trauma I experienced, and I believe carried into my adult life. Hoping this technique works.
I tend to believe that the emotional aspect is not entirely understood -even by the psychological system, of which in my opinion, is why the world is in the trouble it is, and many tend to be sick and can’t overcome their addictions or illnesses.
Being able (still to a certain degree) to accept the things I can not change has opened a new book for me. Suddenly I realized the meaning of the simple, yet so wise words my uncle lived with: it is what it is
What the hell, it was so painfully accurate. I see the link between so many problems in my life, anorexia included. I hope your guidance (not alone ofc) will help me to connect with myself!
I’ve been struggling with my meditation because I cannot feel. Im sad but I can’t feel anything really. I really am glad you reassured me that my emotions are still inside me. I feel frustrated all the time. So everything was just reassuring. Thank you for the video.
Me and my husband had a deep conversation about it this morning. I am a person that feels everything, even too much sometimes and he is living in his head and empty of emotions and has hard time relating to my emotions because he can't even feel his own. I really hope this video will convince him to at least try to think about making a change and putting some emotional flavour back into his life and to see that it is indeed a more pleasant way to living ^^
Daiga Liepa my husband and I are your couple twins. We're going through the same thing!! Nice to know we aren't alone in the journey to ascension! Good luck to you guys ✌🏽
As someone with extreme lack of testosterone, I have a very similar situation where I’ll suddenly stop feeling an emotion and it always takes a while before I can finally recover that emotion, sometimes it even takes days to weeks before I can finally recover that emotion, this problem started during my 6th grade year and then just got worst over time, things would be so much easier if sex hormones didn’t have complete control of emotions during puberty, sex hormones suck so much ass
When I told my parents that I was going to quit my job... my mom became very disappointed, because if my dad was able to stay with his job despite hating it... I should be able to do the same. And my dad was concern regarding the financial aspect, if I were to call upon the for money... And yes I too was concerned, but got very lucky financially, so I came to not only believe in my spirit guides or (God), but sensing that my intuition had connected with a “higher power”, of which I had a very intense experience that led me to make the proper decision... of which I was going to do a call in departure. The end result, I left on very good terms and extra finances that would help me for several months. But I also would have to make a few sacrifices towards my goals.
I feel so relieved and positive that I have found you For the 1st time in 55 years some one else gets it ...I feel hopeful and now realise that I know now what it missing xx
Thank You For All Your Work. I desire to feel good emotions so that I can attract anything I want into my life. Now I understand what the heck happened to my feelings. You are absolutely right. I am a control freak. I always feel I need to be in control. You my beautiful Teal, are my counselor! Thank You!
Omg I started doing the exercise when I was a teenager. My sister said she loved Ozzie Osborne and at the time I was a very religious person and saw him as a dark and dangerous artist. Time passed and I felt this thing in my chest and I couldn’t figure it out, because we were just hanging out on a sunny happy day. It took me a while but I pinpointed what changed. Now as a adult I am so sensitive and aware of my internal mind and emotions and it’s hard to relate to people who are shut down or are defending against feeling anything at all
Thanks for the video! I realized my numb and inability to feel emotions when i am 16. At age 17, i learn to feel bad, sad, and i have my first cry due to sadness. I thought it is what it is, that i just was born with this inability of feel feelings. The logic side of me is not helping. Then i start notice that i feel sad and (maybe) frustated after my mom is gone. And here i am learn what emotions actually are and how to understand my own feelings. Thanks to help me with this video! And thanks for my bestfriend to teach me some things about social manners that i can't get because of my numb and too logic self.
I've stopped watching movies because they invoke painful emotions wow, right on point. This started three years ago and since then I've avoided feelings. Right after that b ghosted me.
Thanks teal, this is/was me. I've been doing some of the things described here. Can't say how beautifully you are putting this. Its something most of the world dismissed all my life, thanks for tackling it. All the best.
I was always able to tune somewhat into my emotions. And when I first found you, Teal, you taught me how to trully be 100 percent of the time in tune to them. I don't know why I chose to learn my way into being this in touch with them. now I can't go back. I've been at the "siren" stage that you mentioned today and I haven't not been avoiding my emotions. I've just been making sure my body doesn't react to them so that I don't give the pleasure out to whoever is trying to humiliate me of confirming that I did indeed get hurt by the constant negative energy and backhanded compliments and subliminal Insults that I receive almost every hour of my life. I also am not going to give up TV over this because it's my only escape from my own mind right now which I know is a paradox because the TV programing is designed to take me back in there again and face day after day my most terrible and traumatic memories on top of receiving constant humiliation and insults. so Idk if this was the goal maybe but here it is. here is my written confirmation that I do get the messages and I do face handling me emotions and every time I'm laughed at and triggered it becomes an extremely difficult emotion that cannot go ignored and I have to work hard not to finally burst in the wrong times even though sometimes I cannot control it and it happens with the worst possible person it can happen, my mother. so yeah, there you go. a crippling frequency i was tuned into a long time ago. but its not enough for me to give up. I know it's up to me on my own to come up with whatever the next step is going to be because I don't expect any of you to have any desire to actually help me. thank you.
I SUFFERED from a TRAUMA, from Grief when my 3 year old son was killed. I drank heavily for 5 years, I did that to NUMB my GRIEF. THE I STOPPED DRINKING, AFTER 2 MONTHS, the realization of my son's Death hit me so Hard that I Broke Down CRYING. But it's to long a story to go into the full details, but I saw a Psychologist at my most VULNERABLE, EXPRESSING MY GRIEF, ABSOLUTELY SOBBING!!! When she said to me, oh YOU,Your just an actress!! I immediately STOPPED SOBBING, and from that day until this present time, I'VE been UNABLE TO CRY. I HAVE BEEN THROUGH MAJOR STRESS, due to Family Issues too personal to Discuss here, surfice to say, If I was able to CRY, I know I'D feel better, instead of bottling it up inside me, to the point I feel NUMB!!!!! I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE ABLE TO CRY. BECAUSE IN THE PAST, BEFORE THIS TRAUMA, I WAS ABLE TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS, AND CRY WHEN I NEEDED TO. WHICH INTURN ALLOWED ME TO BECOME INTUNED WITH MY EMOTIONS!!!! HAVE YOU NOTICED WHEN PEOPLE CRY, USUALLY THE FIRST THING THEY SAY IS"" SORRY"" AS THEY ARE CRYING, SOCIETY HOLDS A NEGATIVE VIEW, WHEN WE EXPRESS OUR EMOTIONS, AS IF IT'S A WEAKNESS. I FOR ONE DON'T FEEL A FULLY WHOLE HUMAN BEEN, WHEN I CAN'T CRY. I KNOW IM NOT ROBINSON CRUSO, AS THERE ARE OTHERS WHO CAN'T CRY. I ACTUALLY ENVIE THOSE THAT CAN. I REMEMBER YEARS AGO , I WAS ON THE WAY HOME FROM A FUNERAL, OF A DEAR OLD LADY THAT I LOVED SO MUCH, I GOT ON THE TRAM, SAT DOWN AND ABSOLUTELY BROKE DOWN SOBBING, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE OTHER STRANGER'S AROUND ME, BUT YOU SEE AT THAT MOMENT, I DIDN'T CARE WHAT ANYONE THOUGH OF ME. AFTERWARDS I FELT MUCH BETTER, I KNOW CRYING IS PAINFULL, BUT THE END RESULT IS WORTH EXPRESSING IT. WITH THE RISK OF REPEATING MYSELF, AS I SAID, I'D GIVE ANYTHING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT NOW. IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN WINNING THE LOTTERY.
wow, i came to a realization 1 year ago that i am a person who doesn't feel emotions. I watched a movie called equilibrium and then i was sure that what i thought about was right. I've been trying to find a solution to this because i knew the difference jn my lifestyle between both, feeling emotions and not feeling it.And now this video will help me a lot, ill get you book. I appreciate your help.thank you.I love you
Wow! You are describing everything about my life since I was 17...I had a trauma like you describe - and I've been unhappy for 25 years...... this is the best video I've ever seen. I will start on everything here.
That doesn't sound weird at all Love & Light,when we feel our emotions whether "good"or "bad",it makes us feel more alive and connected.I think this is a very good video.
Teal, I keep coming back to your videos. I am going through a difficult break up with a partner I believed was my twin flame, but unfortunately, his physical being is corrupt and so is mine and no matter how many times we tried to make it work, it didn't. Our relationship held and is still holding a great deal of emotional baggage. I realized long ago that there are elements to my being that I must change. But now I am in despair and in misery and today was very challenging. I want to heal. I want to feel. I just bought your book "The Completion Process" and I'm going to give the exercises you suggested here a try to. After all, life is meant to be lived. Thank you for being here.
Okay i was losing hope in life and myself but you pulled me up and im so thankful that i wish god blesses you and gives you whatever you ask for. Thank you so much ♥️
Thank you Teal.. Tears are running down my face watching this.. I feel the truth about what you say, I feel so much pain and sadness and longing, as if I got remebered of something, of myself, or my hurt inner child, or my essence, or my truth.. (Hey, I feel something:)) something just opened and it makes me cry so much. This video touches me very deep. Thank you
You are amazing! your insight is always on point and helpful...You speak of universal truth. Nothing goes beyond the knowledge of the universe. It is strange we spend so much time seeking knowledge to the point where we ignore oursleves. We seek knowledge of god in holy books. We seek knowledge in scientific discovery; and all of it leaves us empty and devoid of purpose. So, no matter how much we learn about God or the universe nothing changes! We are just as disharmonious as ever. And then these wonderful guides show up. Some more well known others less so. But no matter you are all my spiritual teachers. And thre universe appreciates your love and attention! Truly...thank you Teal
I hven't even watched the whole video (however certainly I will) but I needed to pause, because this video made me feel something. I just want to say THANK YOU TEAL SWAN. I can't even express how much helpful it is to me, that finally someone can notice and understand something I struggle with for quite a while. And even you mentioned traumatic situation, the death of grandmother, this is close to my heart. Now I feel much better, but I also have been struggling with massive, deep deppression (grandmother's death wasn't the cause) for over three years. Adding to that I have been mentaly abused and spiritually attacked. And many more awful thigs happened. Every little bit of joy in life have been taken away from me and then I couldn't feel anything, well maybe some difficut things, that were killing me, like panic, hate, inesurity, anxiety anger etc. Of course I have been looking for some help but not many things acctually does help. I have watched many, many videos but this particular one is just golden for me. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TEAL SWAN. I WISH I COULD MEET YOU ONE DAY.
I've learnt very effectively to surpress my emotions, so much so that at a recent funeral I attended I literally felt nothing. It's taken me years to develop my control to this level. Emotions just get in the way and serve no useful purpose.
This video made me 'feel' much more than I am comfortable with or have felt for years now, but I'm thankful for the realizations it's given me. Gotta start somewhere, better late than never, right? I'm still scared, but I'll try.
My negative emotions from trauma are so strong it keeps me from functioning at college. So I take medication for depression and a mood stabilizer. I'm starting to notice it's only making it so that I can't feel as much, so I'm still struggling with my grades. While taking them *does help* with some important things, it *doesn't help* with the deepest core problems that I need to change.
When I was in kindergarten, I often suffered from asthma attacks. Someone told me that when I cry (because of the pain), the more I couldn't breathe. So as a child, I willingly controlled my emotions so that I could somehow control the severity of my attacks. Anxiety and panic triggers my asthma. I got so used to reining in emotions that it's second nature now.
I just did that practice and it made me suicidal. Don't do it if you are an apathetic person. If you're sentimental with a sensitive heart, it will make you suicidal.
her video on suicide is very insightful foR people feeling à Deep sense of hopelessness. her input is interesting. it saved me more than once in à emotional crisis.
I begged my mom to let me go to my friends slumber party and she broke down and told me that i was her only girl and that she was so scared to let me go. She cried and held me, and i let out a few tears but i didn't have a heartwarming sensation. Only for a few seconds i felt love but then my sad smile was replaced with an awkward one
You have truly just helped me at this hour and time in my life. Thank you so much. You've helped me unlock something from within that I have been struggling with in life and in my acting class. You've basically put it into clear perspective for me where I can understand and mostly feel. Thank you so much for this video.
I was part of the group that couldn't feel emotion. I've struggled for years because I couldn't feel love. For example, I knew in my mind that I loved my mom, but I couldn't feel it. Love is a sentiment rather than an emotion, but yeah, I was numb in general. Very numb. At my rock bottom worst a few years ago, I didn't even feel sadness or anger. Just... emptiness. So much emptiness and an overwhelming hopelesness. I'm better now lol, pity I didn't find Teal at the time! Still struggle with many issues and I still don't really feel love, but I'm better now.
Oh wow, this is exactly the process that I've been going through for a while now. You explained the most important parts of the journey wonderfully. This is seriously a fool-proof way out of even the darkest depression. I was extremely depressed and suicidal for most of my life (20yo now) and I came very close to dying many times. The way that I got out of it was literally this process. I just never put words to it like Teal does. Amazing video.
I was having a nervous breakdown and I was trying too hard to get over it. I then became obsessed with it and I heard in the other video that if you force it you can have a chronic illness. That on top of me thinking I'm a narcassist and unable to love (what actually caused my breakdown) I realized humans run on addictions and I'm not able to feel emotions anymore and I'm stuck in a trance of wanting medication and attention. I really have lost my mind and I forced myself to.
I noticed last night that I like eating jalapeños even though it’s actual pain and my eyes water, but at least I’m feeling something, and it’s a pain I am in control of.
I am a hyper rationalist and have, thus, suppressed my emotions because I perceived them as a weakness; the mind is superior, I thought. I now understand how inaccurate this idea is because the emotional charge is what makes the experience of being human more authentic and real. Emotions are wise messengers and, are we to balance them with a bit of intelligence, they may share great insight about our current condition.
Hey, this video really gives me hope. I am not able to feel anything consciously. I have been treated for bipolar disorder for 3 years and it didn't do much for me, except let me not overreact to everything all the time. I stopped the treatment about a year ago now. Since I have tried LSD and it kind of put me back in track, meaning it let me know what was wrong about me, that made me so unhappy. Cannabis has also helped me a LOT! I have been watching Netflix and getting high and I remembered bits and pieces of child abuse that I had no memory of. It is still a big void in my head, except for a few emotions that come back to me very strongly with cannabis. I felt sensations all over my body and I think it let me experience emotions even if I don't understand them just yet. Basically your process I have been doing subconsciously with the help of drugs without even realizing. I actually just turned these randoms thoughts I've had for a while into something articulate enough to find this video, searching for "learning to feel". Again your video really gives me hope, and I was hoping to get your opinion on using drugs (drugs used safely with an emphasis on harm reduction) to help with this process. Do you think they can be beneficial in rediscovering myself more easily? Thank you!
when I feel things, i want to dismiss them. when I want to focus on them and be with them, they go away. its incredibly frustrating because i feel overwhelmed
I have the same, when my unconscious feels the emotions are too much to handle. Try making sitting with whatever you are feeling a daily or otherwise regular habit. It's okay if you feel things like "I rather want to watch tv" or "I'm overwhelmed". These thoughts have emotions at the bottom of them too, so try being with whatever is there, even if it is your braining trying to dismiss an emotion. When you are sitting with your emotions music often helped me stay focused and telling my unconsciousness, that I WANT to feel, I am unconditionally with whatever comes up. Feel love and empathy for yourself.
Emotions are very intense, they sometimes almost crush us during childhood. It feels scary and risky to feel them, your brain is giving you what it feels you can take. So show it that you are ready and your emotions will start flowing more and more.
Jennifer Hergert do you have any advice for people who cannot feel because the emotion was surpressed?
If you have surpressed most of your emotions, you can try focusing on noticing what is going on in a simple positive situation.
For example, I started watching little birds play, the sunset or a piece of music I liked. You intentionally invite the emotions in that moment. If nothing comes up, that's okay. Try again another day.
Another thought I have is, that you probably do feel some emotion. So focus on the emotions you do have.
Feeling your emotions is a practice that takes time. Your brain and body need time to learn that feeling your emotions is now safe and encouraged.
On top of that, I can very much recommend you yoga (e.g the videos from yoga with adriene on TH-cam) to feel yourself again, seeing a therapist and focusing on feeling your feelings there in company of another and thirdly journaling.
Any kind of practice that helps you take the focus inward.
Like I said in my previous comment, Teal's process works no matter if you notice it at first. Make it a regular practice to be with yourself and whatever is or isn't inside of you and you will notice change after some time.
I want to add, emotions in my definition are not only anger and sadness and happiness.
It could be frustration during traffic, boredom at work, the feeling of uncomfortable loneliness when you don't have a partner or wish for one, the feeling of emptiness, the feeling of laziness in the morning.
So maybe start by noticing these things you already do feel.
I wish you all the best.
Once I didn't feel much but I noticed I needed emotions to be motivated. So I went on this journey, never stopped no matter how difficult or painful it got. My life is a completely different one now. I have so much energy, I can connect deeply with people, my empathy skyrocketed and every moment can be a little miracle, all because of my emotions. Rain on the skin becomes a super intense experience. So I warmly encourage you to keep trying, even if results down show up as quickly as you might expect.
then feel overwhelmed
Shutting down my emotions has resulted in over thinking and leaving to please people and also having a lot of negative thoughts
I hope you can stop pleasing and follow your own bliss and please yourself. No more miss/mr nice. Good luck!
Reconnecting with your body might come first, to not stay stuck in the overthinking mode.
This is precisely what I deal with. I share your struggles but, we will get through it!
not alone my friend
Yup. Ditto.
Wow I've been emotionally numb & dead for many years as a 40yr man, I have finally awakened the the power of emotions & beliefs in changing my life. Thank you!
Lol
A teen here currently still feeling the same for 2 ears.
I realized that at 21
please help me
how
That's amazing. I'm so glad you have been able to experience this.
How I lost my emotions:
I used to be positive all the time and trust people and most of them weren’t trustworthy. I ended up deciding not to trust people again or empathize with them. Through time I started losing my emotions because I don’t use them, and now I feel like a robot with a hollow heart.
I hope you will get better soon!🥺💖
@@ashleyqueenloa4765 thank you💛
@@user-yc3gk6rk7k how are you now
Same thing happened to me omg. The same reason and the result of it. I'm numb now. My past was horrible and I'm just 18. I feel numb, angry, frustrated and I don't want anything or anyone. I'm not even living life now😭
Same
7 techniques to re-connect with emotions:
1. (5:11) Reconnect to feelings exercises (3 weeks)
2. (9:54) Trauma about feelings. Do the "Completeness process" (page 139).
3. (11:48) Find core believe behind I don't want to feel. Watch video "How to find a core believe"
4. (14:01) Negative emotions are not wrong
5. (14:54) Go out of comfortable zone, do something new
6. (15:30) Do things that make you feel extreme emotions
7. (16:45) We can't feel because we are inside our minds. Let the mind learn about emotions
Watch additional videos for help (17:50):
1. Emptiness
2. The emotional wake up call
3. How to heal the emotional body
4. Happiness is the purpose of your life
Not all heros wear capes 👌
@@Spooky_Psyche I got a question my man ?
amazing, thanks :)
Thank you
Thisis Great and helpful 👍
I had this problem lately where I can remember memories but I can't feel them.I can't feel nostalgic as I used too.that heart warming sensation is just gone
Mehmet Tan I feel like this but I think for me I haven’t been able to feel because I have felt very stressed lately
Mehmet Tan yes I do. You don’t?
I have this exact same problem. Exactly like you said...I can remember memories but can't remember the feeling and feel nostalgic.
@@ioanai1103 It's called getting older.
Please make the book available on scribd. The completion process
I just did the exercise
I close my eyes and anxiety came up I learn that anxiety is a fear to hide the REAL FEELING
So I asked myself
What is behind the real feeling .
I started to feel scared
I ask y u scared
It's a trauma I experience over and over again in my early childhood.
I told my inner self its OK to be scared. And my body stated to untwine
Relax. OK am going to do that again at a higher level.
I'll keep you posted.
Thank you.
What happened
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you 😫
Pozy Bahamas thanks
Please keep posting
I love that you exist, helping millions of people worldwide to become more aware, integrating and healing aspects of themselves. I hope you never stop sharing your blessing with this world!
I just typed in TH-cam "Why can't I feel my emotions" and then your video came up.
I am so grateful for it. Thank you so much!
Same lol
Mine too
Same
thank you Teal for this very important message. Me and most males have had to learn to suppress our most intense feelings(grief for not living the life you would like to have and receiving unconditional love) boys don't cry(still being said by parents and kindergarten teachers)Parents can not cope with these feelings as they feel responsible for their kids happiness and they don't allow these feelings in their kids so they can avoid feeling responsible for not solving their problems. feelings are connection to yr feeling body(soul). We as children are so dependant on our parents who also learnt to suppres "negative" emotions(hurt). They want us to be happy, they wanted kids to make them feel happy and if you as a kid are unhappy(they feel guilty for not being able to make you happy) they become "more" unhappy so having children was not the miracle sollution for their unhappiness. This is very unfortunate. Children are often a byproduct from an unsatisfying life(sex is an emptyness filler) and children are sometimes byproduct of sex, but even wanted children are often idealised as the solution for your emptyness. emptyness can not be filled with sex or child or whatever material goal.
I'm fighting a porn addiction. And i dont feel emotions as strongly. Except for intense negative emotions. Thanks Teal i'll try to improve my compass.
@Recycle BinLaden Watch Aman Who Over comed Ur Adiction &Felt every thing as he used to be The Name Of The Man Noah Church
Now you have to make a video on how not to get lost in your emotions, or someone else's energy vibrations.
Stellar Fervour this video was targeted more towards those who have a hard time feeling their emotions. I think she has a video about how to manage your emotions for those who feel too much and are overwhelmed by them
Tha'ts funny but you are right, i have been lost in my emotions many times. i had to find someone who can draw faces of the different types of emotions and had him describe to me what each emotion meant and what they feel like.
Yes, someone else's "energy vibrations" overtook my emotionally traumatized self once. It was a good thing the access all my own feelings. I lost my job though which shows the need for balance.
Stay busy and don't focus on the past or future thoughts
This is so real. It was so difficult for me to learn how to sing and I thought I could never do it. Singing is emotional and it's how you connect with yourself and others. I like totally ignored this part of myself for ever. It took me a whole year of training professionally to get this far and understand what is truly going on with myself
i started feeling again when i started resting and cuting mean and narcissistic people from my life.
Feeling numb was maybe my worst experience..I told to myself "How bad and blank life can be" .. Really im crying right now for the people who struggle with numbness and negative emotions or anything else .. because i know how much the world suffers i wish everyone to heal and life will teach you many things it is a long journey indeed.Love your videos Teal i can relate to everything you say everything ! Everything makes sense now especially when you referred that quiet voice that is telling you you are in the wrong direction ..and to be honest spiritual videos made me feel not that good..but now i dont know why i feel very relieved and differently maybe its about perspective!
That's where I am in life. Emotionally numb unless it's negative feelings. But I'm trying to figure it all out and heal myself. Namaste 🙏🏼
@@VictoriaMarch13Have You overcome it, Victoria?
Thank you for this 🙏🏻 I’m 34 and have been a drug addict since I was 14, hard drugs. I completely disconnected from feelings and emotions. This is going to help me so much get back in touch with my true self ❤
Before I stopped feeling things my emotions were going wild. They were up and down and up and down and I remember being very exhausted and just hoping my feelings to calm down. At first when I stopped feeling I felt this wonderful sensation of calmness. It felt wonderful. I remember telling my friend how great it was that I didn't care about things that used to rile me up. It took about a month of that bliss before I started to realize that maybe it wasn't so much that I had found calmness in me but stopped feeling all together. I still find that very interesting because it seems like I was consciously wishing for to stop feeling even if I didn't realize it at the moment. I know that part of me still doesn't want to feel, at least not all the emotions. I'm still afraid what will happen after I open that door. Will I go wild with emotions again? What if I start wanting things that are bad for me and my future? In a sense it's easier to not feel because then you can do whatever seems logical and smart. You are not afraid of things, you don't feel nervous or shame if you mess up. Like I understand why body would in some case scenarios decide to take that road. Because sometimes you can't feel these emotions in order to keep functioning.
I’m 16 and I’ve already got issues with feeling. primarily am just angry or nothing at all. this has really helped me see what I had blocked out for years, not even due to any abuse or anything just lack of guidance to feeling emotionally connected to people
I love you for doing what you are doing Teal! My emotions are what have me in my own prison. Yes, i was told tht getting mad and expressing myself was a bad thing. Getting whipped with my shirt off and not allowed to cry helped me be the monster i was. For many yrs, I roamed this earth not knowing what the hell was wrong with me, why i could not feel pain or my hand touching someone else's hand. I learned to numb my pain when being whipped and to keep my mouth shut when being bullied. I did my best to pretend all was okay when inside I had no idea what i was feeling. The only emotion i had for many yrs was anger. Getting in touch with my emotions will be freaken hard but i must do it. Right now my emotions are rolled up in a negative ball, i have no idea what i am feeling. Thank you for sharing this important video Teal. God Bless you!!
Aaaah I read your story...sending you lots of hugs & love ❤ 🧡❤🤗🤗🤗!!!
How’s it been, the journey? I am here - actually so sick from repressed emotions, I crashed, bedridden a year.. I don’t know how to ‘feel’, but must to heal..! Any updates pls
Teal has shattered my narcissism personality disorder and has broken me wide open. I've searched high and low for 30 years for this girl.
How?
Processing emotions and suppressing emotions are not mutually exclusive. Emotions and thoughts can be suppressed temporarily and processed later on. This is especially useful to get work done or to enjoy social events.
“Suppressing emotions” is a loose phrase that can mean multiple things:
1. Avoiding analyzing the internal emotions.
2. Avoiding talking about the internal pain externally.
3. Avoiding feeling the internal pain.
4. Avoiding external emotional expressions of internal pain: i.e. crying, screaming, etc.
*We should generally analyze the internal pain to an extent. How much we should analyze the internal pain varies from person to person and day to day.
*Sometimes we should talk about the situation to others depending on the person and situation.
*After some processing, we should force ourselves into healthy, leisurely activities and/or work. How much and when we should force ourselves varies from person to person and day to day.
*We should rarely hold back from crying as crying will reduce the pain, even just temporarily.
Analyzing or talking about the internal pain is different from analyzing or talking about the external problem.
Emotions are not toothpaste in a bottle. After we process them, they often come flooding back later.
Often times bringing negative unconscious thoughts to the conscious level (“surfacing”) will trouble people significantly more than they did when they were unconscious.
It’s crucial to find a balance where emotions are acknowledged and dealt with without getting stuck in a cycle of rumination.
I just watched thank you Teal. I only feel negative emotions if i feel anything. Anger, frustration...when I get sad I quickly snap out of it. I love to laugh but happiness and joy are hard to discover. I don’t know what to do when someone is crying, i try to say the right things but it feels disingenuous. I hope to learn more as I continue to watch you.
When people hear the truth, they'll recognize it. When people spreak the truth, they do so as well so it seems. Powerful, pleasant (attractive) vibe, along with valuable information. Nice colours (background, chair, dress, you) as well. Excellent video!
I couldn’t be more grateful for you and your teachings, Teal. All my life, beginning from the trauma in my childhood i have felt sadness, hopelessness after my grandmother passed, although I know she is still with me. Living with a depressed alcoholic growing up and seeing things, I have had trouble with connecting with others I know.
Thank you, woman🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺you have literally saved me. Thank you for you kindness. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
I have trouble feeling my own emotions. I've always been able to feel the emotions of others, almost overly empathetic. I often use emotional movies or books to bring out emotions but these aren't mine either, they are often empathetic, I can only really feel through others. I'm glad to find this video. Thank you.
Hello. I have the exact same thing. Glad I found someone who is similar. When I watch certain movies I feel sad, but the tears won't exactly come out, like something is stopping me. However the fact that I ALMOST feel the full emotions show they exist, and that I feel safe to feel them. I had eye surgery when I was younger, which is a trauma I experienced, and I believe carried into my adult life. Hoping this technique works.
I tend to believe that the emotional aspect is not entirely understood -even by the psychological system, of which in my opinion, is why the world is in the trouble it is, and many tend to be sick and can’t overcome their addictions or illnesses.
I just found you 5 min ago and omg you will change my life.
Being able (still to a certain degree) to accept the things I can not change has opened a new book for me.
Suddenly I realized the meaning of the simple, yet so wise words my uncle lived with: it is what it is
What the hell, it was so painfully accurate. I see the link between so many problems in my life, anorexia included. I hope your guidance (not alone ofc) will help me to connect with myself!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO WATCH. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
I literally felt my heart thaw while watching this. Thank you. Brought tears to my eyes
Wow, I can't believe it took me 33 years to discover that I am afraid of my emotions. The substance abuse makes a lot more sense now. Thank you.
I’ve been struggling with my meditation because I cannot feel. Im sad but I can’t feel anything really. I really am glad you reassured me that my emotions are still inside me. I feel frustrated all the time. So everything was just reassuring. Thank you for the video.
Behind feeling and mastering emotions, is the ultimate science and knowledge.
Me and my husband had a deep conversation about it this morning. I am a person that feels everything, even too much sometimes and he is living in his head and empty of emotions and has hard time relating to my emotions because he can't even feel his own. I really hope this video will convince him to at least try to think about making a change and putting some emotional flavour back into his life and to see that it is indeed a more pleasant way to living ^^
How did he lose it?
Daiga Liepa
What happened now since its been 1 year?
Daiga Liepa my husband and I are your couple twins. We're going through the same thing!! Nice to know we aren't alone in the journey to ascension! Good luck to you guys ✌🏽
happy for him I would love to stop feeling my emotions no more pain sounds great sign me up
As someone with extreme lack of testosterone, I have a very similar situation where I’ll suddenly stop feeling an emotion and it always takes a while before I can finally recover that emotion, sometimes it even takes days to weeks before I can finally recover that emotion, this problem started during my 6th grade year and then just got worst over time, things would be so much easier if sex hormones didn’t have complete control of emotions during puberty, sex hormones suck so much ass
When I told my parents that I was going to quit my job... my mom became very disappointed, because if my dad was able to stay with his job despite hating it... I should be able to do the same. And my dad was concern regarding the financial aspect, if I were to call upon the for money...
And yes I too was concerned, but got very lucky financially, so I came to not only believe in my spirit guides or (God), but sensing that my intuition had connected with a “higher power”, of which I had a very intense experience that led me to make the proper decision... of which I was going to do a call in departure. The end result, I left on very good terms and extra finances that would help me for several months. But I also would have to make a few sacrifices towards my goals.
I feel so relieved and positive that I have found you For the 1st time in 55 years some one else gets it ...I feel hopeful and now realise that I know now what it missing xx
I love the sentence: we live in an emotional dark age. Fabulous!
Thank You For All Your Work. I desire to feel good emotions so that I can attract anything I want into my life. Now I understand what the heck happened to my feelings. You are absolutely right. I am a control freak. I always feel I need to be in control. You my beautiful Teal, are my counselor! Thank You!
Thank you so much Teal 🙏🏽
You give us the option to move through life with greater access to our free will rather than reactivity and fate.
sometimes you guys put up the right video topic at the right time.
Teal ,LoVe You Beyond💗💜
You Generous Heart💚Will stay in the
History for Ever🙏🏼
Omg I started doing the exercise when I was a teenager. My sister said she loved Ozzie Osborne and at the time I was a very religious person and saw him as a dark and dangerous artist. Time passed and I felt this thing in my chest and I couldn’t figure it out, because we were just hanging out on a sunny happy day. It took me a while but I pinpointed what changed. Now as a adult I am so sensitive and aware of my internal mind and emotions and it’s hard to relate to people who are shut down or are defending against feeling anything at all
Thanks Teal. It amazes me how much of what you say is a perfect match for what I've been intuiting over the past few months.
Thanks for the video!
I realized my numb and inability to feel emotions when i am 16. At age 17, i learn to feel bad, sad, and i have my first cry due to sadness. I thought it is what it is, that i just was born with this inability of feel feelings. The logic side of me is not helping. Then i start notice that i feel sad and (maybe) frustated after my mom is gone. And here i am learn what emotions actually are and how to understand my own feelings. Thanks to help me with this video! And thanks for my bestfriend to teach me some things about social manners that i can't get because of my numb and too logic self.
Teal Swan you are my compas, thank you for being there for me
This is spot on that’s why we practice vipassana meditation
I've stopped watching movies because they invoke painful emotions wow, right on point. This started three years ago and since then I've avoided feelings. Right after that b ghosted me.
Thanks teal, this is/was me. I've been doing some of the things described here. Can't say how beautifully you are putting this. Its something most of the world dismissed all my life, thanks for tackling it. All the best.
Listening to this drunk as I am drinking away what I don’t want to feel anymore and learning so much while taking notes/pictures and reflecting.
Dont beat yrself up, you are in pain and the avoidance strategy is hurting you more and causing more shame
I was always able to tune somewhat into my emotions. And when I first found you, Teal, you taught me how to trully be 100 percent of the time in tune to them. I don't know why I chose to learn my way into being this in touch with them. now I can't go back. I've been at the "siren" stage that you mentioned today and I haven't not been avoiding my emotions. I've just been making sure my body doesn't react to them so that I don't give the pleasure out to whoever is trying to humiliate me of confirming that I did indeed get hurt by the constant negative energy and backhanded compliments and subliminal Insults that I receive almost every hour of my life. I also am not going to give up TV over this because it's my only escape from my own mind right now which I know is a paradox because the TV programing is designed to take me back in there again and face day after day my most terrible and traumatic memories on top of receiving constant humiliation and insults. so Idk if this was the goal maybe but here it is. here is my written confirmation that I do get the messages and I do face handling me emotions and every time I'm laughed at and triggered it becomes an extremely difficult emotion that cannot go ignored and I have to work hard not to finally burst in the wrong times even though sometimes I cannot control it and it happens with the worst possible person it can happen, my mother. so yeah, there you go. a crippling frequency i was tuned into a long time ago. but its not enough for me to give up. I know it's up to me on my own to come up with whatever the next step is going to be because I don't expect any of you to have any desire to actually help me. thank you.
I SUFFERED from a TRAUMA, from Grief when my 3 year old son was killed. I drank heavily for 5 years, I did that to NUMB my GRIEF. THE I STOPPED DRINKING, AFTER 2 MONTHS, the realization of my son's Death hit me so Hard that I Broke Down CRYING. But it's to long a story to go into the full details, but I saw a Psychologist at my most VULNERABLE, EXPRESSING MY GRIEF, ABSOLUTELY SOBBING!!! When she said to me, oh YOU,Your just an actress!! I immediately STOPPED SOBBING, and from that day until this present time, I'VE been UNABLE TO CRY. I HAVE BEEN THROUGH MAJOR STRESS, due to Family Issues too personal to Discuss here, surfice to say, If I was able to CRY, I know I'D feel better, instead of bottling it up inside me, to the point I feel NUMB!!!!! I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE ABLE TO CRY. BECAUSE IN THE PAST, BEFORE THIS TRAUMA, I WAS ABLE TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS, AND CRY WHEN I NEEDED TO. WHICH INTURN ALLOWED ME TO BECOME INTUNED WITH MY EMOTIONS!!!! HAVE YOU NOTICED WHEN PEOPLE CRY, USUALLY THE FIRST THING THEY SAY IS"" SORRY"" AS THEY ARE CRYING, SOCIETY HOLDS A NEGATIVE VIEW, WHEN WE EXPRESS OUR EMOTIONS, AS IF IT'S A WEAKNESS. I FOR ONE DON'T FEEL A FULLY WHOLE HUMAN BEEN, WHEN I CAN'T CRY. I KNOW IM NOT ROBINSON CRUSO, AS THERE ARE OTHERS WHO CAN'T CRY. I ACTUALLY ENVIE THOSE THAT CAN. I REMEMBER YEARS AGO , I WAS ON THE WAY HOME FROM A FUNERAL, OF A DEAR OLD LADY THAT I LOVED SO MUCH, I GOT ON THE TRAM, SAT DOWN AND ABSOLUTELY BROKE DOWN SOBBING, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE OTHER STRANGER'S AROUND ME, BUT YOU SEE AT THAT MOMENT, I DIDN'T CARE WHAT ANYONE THOUGH OF ME. AFTERWARDS I FELT MUCH BETTER, I KNOW CRYING IS PAINFULL, BUT THE END RESULT IS WORTH EXPRESSING IT. WITH THE RISK OF REPEATING MYSELF, AS I SAID, I'D GIVE ANYTHING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT NOW. IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN WINNING THE LOTTERY.
I feel things I just don't know what they are and they're so fleeting that I don't get to focus and understand them.
wow, i came to a realization 1 year ago that i am a person who doesn't feel emotions. I watched a movie called equilibrium and then i was sure that what i thought about was right. I've been trying to find a solution to this because i knew the difference jn my lifestyle between both, feeling emotions and not feeling it.And now this video will help me a lot, ill get you book. I appreciate your help.thank you.I love you
She’s healing me
Thank You Teal For Teaching On Emotions. You also have the most Beautiful Smile. Peace.
Wow! You are describing everything about my life since I was 17...I had a trauma like you describe - and I've been unhappy for 25 years...... this is the best video I've ever seen. I will start on everything here.
I feel like I can here my intuition all the time and sometimes I get emotional and afraid and disconnect through focus
I have been watching you for 5 years and am back at your first videos.
That doesn't sound weird at all Love & Light,when we feel our emotions whether "good"or "bad",it makes us feel more alive and connected.I think this is a very good video.
HOW. How do you post the perfect video every single time i need to hear it.. you and Rivka Malka, its eerie Teal
LetsBeClear Its because we are all one consciousness.
JayCee_Energy if thats true, we just all need to realize that fact and act accordingly in order to achieve true peace.. right?
Yep! ;)
I know how, she's rational, speaks smoothly and never put background music.
Teal, I keep coming back to your videos. I am going through a difficult break up with a partner I believed was my twin flame, but unfortunately, his physical being is corrupt and so is mine and no matter how many times we tried to make it work, it didn't. Our relationship held and is still holding a great deal of emotional baggage. I realized long ago that there are elements to my being that I must change. But now I am in despair and in misery and today was very challenging. I want to heal. I want to feel. I just bought your book "The Completion Process" and I'm going to give the exercises you suggested here a try to. After all, life is meant to be lived. Thank you for being here.
Okay i was losing hope in life and myself but you pulled me up and im so thankful that i wish god blesses you and gives you whatever you ask for. Thank you so much ♥️
Thank you for this education. It has taken me 30 years to start learn real education
Your videos have helped me thru the hardest time in my life. Thank you, teal
Thank you Teal.. Tears are running down my face watching this.. I feel the truth about what you say, I feel so much pain and sadness and longing, as if I got remebered of something, of myself, or my hurt inner child, or my essence, or my truth.. (Hey, I feel something:)) something just opened and it makes me cry so much. This video touches me very deep. Thank you
A person helped me with this just like this before I was ready....good stuff....peace to her and all
You are amazing! your insight is always on point and helpful...You speak of universal truth. Nothing goes beyond the knowledge of the universe. It is strange we spend so much time seeking knowledge to the point where we ignore oursleves. We seek knowledge of god in holy books. We seek knowledge in scientific discovery; and all of it leaves us empty and devoid of purpose. So, no matter how much we learn about God or the universe nothing changes! We are just as disharmonious as ever. And then these wonderful guides show up. Some more well known others less so. But no matter you are all my spiritual teachers. And thre universe appreciates your love and attention! Truly...thank you Teal
I’m not sure so I’m here to listen and find out.
Whatever that music is n the beginning is majestic asf. It’s my first time here 🙋🏻♂️
I've seen the light, thanks.
Thank you, Teal. I finally figured out what was the block.
Wow! One step at a time. Breathe
Thank you Teal, thank you for all that you’ve shared and continue to share.
This video explained me everything that I feel is wrong with me!
I hven't even watched the whole video (however certainly I will) but I needed to pause, because this video made me feel something. I just want to say THANK YOU TEAL SWAN. I can't even express how much helpful it is to me, that finally someone can notice and understand something I struggle with for quite a while. And even you mentioned traumatic situation, the death of grandmother, this is close to my heart. Now I feel much better, but I also have been struggling with massive, deep deppression (grandmother's death wasn't the cause) for over three years. Adding to that I have been mentaly abused and spiritually attacked. And many more awful thigs happened. Every little bit of joy in life have been taken away from me and then I couldn't feel anything, well maybe some difficut things, that were killing me, like panic, hate, inesurity, anxiety anger etc. Of course I have been looking for some help but not many things acctually does help. I have watched many, many videos but this particular one is just golden for me. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TEAL SWAN. I WISH I COULD MEET YOU ONE DAY.
Yes this video makes me realize how much I push away myself
I've learnt very effectively to surpress my emotions, so much so that at a recent funeral I attended I literally felt nothing. It's taken me years to develop my control to this level. Emotions just get in the way and serve no useful purpose.
This video made me 'feel' much more than I am comfortable with or have felt for years now, but I'm thankful for the realizations it's given me. Gotta start somewhere, better late than never, right?
I'm still scared, but I'll try.
My negative emotions from trauma are so strong it keeps me from functioning at college. So I take medication for depression and a mood stabilizer. I'm starting to notice it's only making it so that I can't feel as much, so I'm still struggling with my grades. While taking them *does help* with some important things, it *doesn't help* with the deepest core problems that I need to change.
When I was in kindergarten, I often suffered from asthma attacks. Someone told me that when I cry (because of the pain), the more I couldn't breathe. So as a child, I willingly controlled my emotions so that I could somehow control the severity of my attacks. Anxiety and panic triggers my asthma. I got so used to reining in emotions that it's second nature now.
This is better than all the Ted-x talks that I've ever watched
I just did that practice and it made me suicidal. Don't do it if you are an apathetic person. If you're sentimental with a sensitive heart, it will make you suicidal.
her video on suicide is very insightful foR people feeling à Deep sense of hopelessness. her input is interesting. it saved me more than once in à emotional crisis.
Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. You fall asleep suicidal and wake up determined, no more miss nice girl.
I begged my mom to let me go to my friends slumber party and she broke down and told me that i was her only girl and that she was so scared to let me go. She cried and held me, and i let out a few tears but i didn't have a heartwarming sensation. Only for a few seconds i felt love but then my sad smile was replaced with an awkward one
You have truly just helped me at this hour and time in my life. Thank you so much. You've helped me unlock something from within that I have been struggling with in life and in my acting class. You've basically put it into clear perspective for me where I can understand and mostly feel. Thank you so much for this video.
God bless teal
I was part of the group that couldn't feel emotion. I've struggled for years because I couldn't feel love. For example, I knew in my mind that I loved my mom, but I couldn't feel it. Love is a sentiment rather than an emotion, but yeah, I was numb in general. Very numb. At my rock bottom worst a few years ago, I didn't even feel sadness or anger. Just... emptiness. So much emptiness and an overwhelming hopelesness. I'm better now lol, pity I didn't find Teal at the time! Still struggle with many issues and I still don't really feel love, but I'm better now.
Oh wow, this is exactly the process that I've been going through for a while now. You explained the most important parts of the journey wonderfully.
This is seriously a fool-proof way out of even the darkest depression. I was extremely depressed and suicidal for most of my life (20yo now) and I came very close to dying many times. The way that I got out of it was literally this process. I just never put words to it like Teal does. Amazing video.
How you doing my man :)
I believe I have trouble feeling things because I’m dissociating in the form of putting up defenses because of trauma.
you have a deep deep insight and called upon the memories of my childhood that I Gotta revise now! Thank you So much!!!
Wow this was actually way more helpful than I thought it would be
You’re A Very Sincere Spiritual Teacher!
I was having a nervous breakdown and I was trying too hard to get over it. I then became obsessed with it and I heard in the other video that if you force it you can have a chronic illness. That on top of me thinking I'm a narcassist and unable to love (what actually caused my breakdown) I realized humans run on addictions and I'm not able to feel emotions anymore and I'm stuck in a trance of wanting medication and attention. I really have lost my mind and I forced myself to.
Point 2 made me cry. God. I need to change.
I used to hate getting into feelings (loving others/negitive raw emotion) and now this interspections are fun, fun as in another "high"
Start noticing those emotions
I noticed last night that I like eating jalapeños even though it’s actual pain and my eyes water, but at least I’m feeling something, and it’s a pain I am in control of.
I used to do that as well, I would eat spicy foods until I could feel my heart pounding in my mouth, but for some reason I loved it.
You also crave spicy foods because they release endorphins and feel good chemicals. I always crave spicy foods when I’m stressed.
Thank you so much Teal.
I can’t wait to help people realise this.
I am a hyper rationalist and have, thus, suppressed my emotions because I perceived them as a weakness; the mind is superior, I thought. I now understand how inaccurate this idea is because the emotional charge is what makes the experience of being human more authentic and real. Emotions are wise messengers and, are we to balance them with a bit of intelligence, they may share great insight about our current condition.
I've been releasing this fear of not feeling but now crying almost daily!!! Like if all emotions were stuck in my physical body for years...
Hey, this video really gives me hope. I am not able to feel anything consciously. I have been treated for bipolar disorder for 3 years and it didn't do much for me, except let me not overreact to everything all the time. I stopped the treatment about a year ago now. Since I have tried LSD and it kind of put me back in track, meaning it let me know what was wrong about me, that made me so unhappy. Cannabis has also helped me a LOT! I have been watching Netflix and getting high and I remembered bits and pieces of child abuse that I had no memory of. It is still a big void in my head, except for a few emotions that come back to me very strongly with cannabis. I felt sensations all over my body and I think it let me experience emotions even if I don't understand them just yet.
Basically your process I have been doing subconsciously with the help of drugs without even realizing. I actually just turned these randoms thoughts I've had for a while into something articulate enough to find this video, searching for "learning to feel".
Again your video really gives me hope, and I was hoping to get your opinion on using drugs (drugs used safely with an emphasis on harm reduction) to help with this process. Do you think they can be beneficial in rediscovering myself more easily?
Thank you!