The contents of this video go right to one of the key ways I have been suffering for years: feeling helpless to exit the same thought loop over how am I supposedly able, yet for some reason "refusing," to summon into my mind-body 100% adoration for a deity I find to be morally reprehensible, so that that deity doesn't punish me post-mortem by inflicting eternal conscious torment on me in hell.
I find the journal prompt very helpful and hope to try it. What theological questions or spiritual worries keep looping in your mind? Instead of trying to solve what may be an unsolvable conundrum, what would it look like to tend to the feeling underneath the conundrum?
You point out here that a key reason our bodies get stuck feeling helplessly compelled to loop and loop and loop on the same conundrum (e.g. how can I become acceptable to this deity by making myself love it with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind when, in fact, I loathe this deity) is that they don't feel safe. Feeling there's some problem that needs resolution leaves our bodies feeling unsafe, so they launch into, and stay in, problem-solving mode.
If we were able to ground ourselves in the present moment (e.g., for me, by asking myself my two checklist questions of "Am I in excruciating pain?" and "Am I in prison or in a concentration camp/detention center/torture facility/some deity's venue of punishment of some sort?) and then tune into, and sit with, the bodily sensations associated in the first place with feeling unsafe, we in theory could exit the particular thought loop.
Did I understand this correctly? What do you mean by a person tending to the feeling underneath the conundrum they keep looping on? Can you operationalize what would be entailed in tending to the feeling underneath the conundrum? (I've got some ideas involving IFS parts, but...)
The contents of this video go right to one of the key ways I have been suffering for years: feeling helpless to exit the same thought loop over how am I supposedly able, yet for some reason "refusing," to summon into my mind-body 100% adoration for a deity I find to be morally reprehensible, so that that deity doesn't punish me post-mortem by inflicting eternal conscious torment on me in hell.
I find the journal prompt very helpful and hope to try it. What theological questions or spiritual worries keep looping in your mind? Instead of trying to solve what may be an unsolvable conundrum, what would it look like to tend to the feeling underneath the conundrum?
You point out here that a key reason our bodies get stuck feeling helplessly compelled to loop and loop and loop on the same conundrum (e.g. how can I become acceptable to this deity by making myself love it with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind when, in fact, I loathe this deity) is that they don't feel safe. Feeling there's some problem that needs resolution leaves our bodies feeling unsafe, so they launch into, and stay in, problem-solving mode.
If we were able to ground ourselves in the present moment (e.g., for me, by asking myself my two checklist questions of "Am I in excruciating pain?" and "Am I in prison or in a concentration camp/detention center/torture facility/some deity's venue of punishment of some sort?) and then tune into, and sit with, the bodily sensations associated in the first place with feeling unsafe, we in theory could exit the particular thought loop.
Did I understand this correctly? What do you mean by a person tending to the feeling underneath the conundrum they keep looping on? Can you operationalize what would be entailed in tending to the feeling underneath the conundrum? (I've got some ideas involving IFS parts, but...)