126 – How to not dissociate or get flooded with emotions with this somatic tracking exercise

We are surrounded by the mentality of “man up”, “grow up”, “don’t show your emotions”, “stop being a cry baby”, etc.

This unfortunately has led many of us to close ourselves off from our emotional world.

What happens as a result is that when we do feel an avalanche of emotions coming, most of us go into either dissociation, disconnecting from the emotion, or getting flooded with the emotion, having it take over us, since we haven’t learned how to be with our emotions.

This leads to all sorts of chronic pain, and distress in our most important relationships, where we should feel safe to be ourselves, and we don’t.

So today I’m sharing a somatic exercise called Somatic Tracking that helps us learn how to stay with our emotions, bodily sensations, and felt sense, teaching our systems that it’s safe to feel, leading to reduced pain and enhancing our relationships as we show up as our true selves.

Disclaimer: By listening to this episode and implementing this exercise you are not engaging in coaching with Rena Reiser and agree to take responsibility for your own health and wellbeing.

This segment is part of a longer series of classes offered through my membership program, the Tune In Circle. Read more about it here.