Tag: intrusive thoughts
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Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts may be scary, upsetting, and distressing and your natural inclination may be to try to talk back to them or to prove that they aren’t rational in order to get relief. If you’ve found this article, I’m guessing that approach probably hasn’t worked very well. Deb Dan’s phrase, “story follows state,” can help…
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“Yes And-ing” Obsessive Thoughts
If you ever were to observe me working with a baby, you’d hear and see at least one hundred variations on a certain theme. With my hands and my words, I will communicate to each baby ideas like, “Good idea toes, let’s curl! I can even help you with that!” And then after a while,…
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Working With Traumatic Memories
You may have tried, when difficult memories come up, to console yourself that the thing troubling you is from the past. “No use dwelling on the past,” except it’s not so easy — the past colors our presentI distinctly remember similar advice given in the first week of my Feldenkrais training program. When the trainer was…