Great question Jen. I see wellbeing typing so I’m sure he’ll have a great answer as well. I plan to talk about this in greater detail soon enough but I’ll give a few pointers.
For one, mindfulness is key. If you don’t notice yourself reacting, this information is almost pointless. You end up remembering after the fact and never notice while you are reacting. Meditating daily is essential. It’s the only way your brain creates a pattern of consciously being awsre of the present… even if nothing is happening.
The issue with meditation is that often, the secons we try to silence our minds, we become aware of our anxiety. We get the urge to ge ton the phone. There is a discomfort that is present. And that discomfort is what we all try to escape through being on the phone, thinking of random things, ext… when you feel that uncomfotrable feeling… confront it.
Feel it. Acknowledge you feel it. That it comes from you. Why do you feel it? Really answer that for yourself in your mind. Accept that you feel it
Don’t fight it. Acknowledge it. By acknowledge, I mean take responsibility for feeling it. By doing so, you are reasserting yourself as the thinker. Now let me give an example.
Let’s say you are extremely insecure of your jawline. There is a party coming up that you already said yes to. You want to go but at the same time… you don’t want to go. Thinking about the party makes you anxious so you keep distracting yourself with other things. So… you decide to meditate.
You feel this discomfort heavily. You decise to confront it and accept the discomfort. Welcome it. And think to yourself, why am i feeling this way. You probably already know why but you start thinking of how you get uncomftorable around groups of people. And then you accept the feeling that comes with that. You acknowledge that you have social anxiety. You accept that you have it. Then you ask yourself why do you get uncomftorable, then your jaw insecurity comes up. You reject your jaw. A part of your physicality. This rejection represses your personality and whole beingness from being free with itself. But you don’t fight the rejection. You acknowledge that you don’t like your jaw and think its ugly. You acknowlwdge your feelings about it. You own these thoughts. They don’t own you.
And then, as you are at the root. You aren’t fighting with your thoughts or insecurities. You can choose now. There is no duality. There just is at this point. Choose to accept your jaw as it is. Accpept it may not look as amazing as it could but that it is your jaw. You are it. It’s a part of you and you embrace it just cause.
And often, your subconscious will continue giving your rationalizations of why your jaw is atill ugly and can’t be accepted. Especially when you see sexy jaws lol. But as those thoghts flow, they won’t bother you if acknowledge yourself thinking them and you accepting you are thinking. And at the same time, accepting the u comftorable feeling. Becauae that is the essence of it.
How you feel about yourself in that regard is the discomfort and when you accept that discomfort. When you consciously allow it, it dissipates and isn’t a repressive force pushing on you anymore. Your subconscious/ego shuts up about iit finally.
Easier said than done obviously. I would recommend listening to Ego dissolution, then trauma release or stress release or even forgiveness. Whatever field that can help bring whatever you want to work on to the surface. Focus on what is making you uncomfyorable. Feel that discomfort. Confront your feelings. You are in control of your mind. You are all of your mind. Your body. Your spirit. The faster you believe this, the faster you attain that control that you already innately have.
Then listen to higher self, any of our higher vibe fields or even love gratitude appreciation (classic right there). And while listening, accept rhe discomfort. Accept that ‘negative’ energy until you just percieve it as ‘is’. Not negative, not positive. Just is. To allow it to flow back into your whole energy flow. You can consciously love the energy after accepting it to more quickly reintegrate.
When life happens, it is hard to gain control over our emotions in the way that I’m saying. But that part takes time. It takes gaining mindfulness and building resilience. I meditate every morning during a cold shower. Cold shower to prep me to be accepting of discomfort and I just accept whatever that cold feeling gives me. And always, it just doesn’t become cold/negative anymore. It just becomes water. It’s really the same with day to day life.