How To Feel (Learn How to Start Feeling) - Teal Swan -

When we learn one way or another over the course of our lives that it is not ok to have feelings, there is one particular strategy we use to deal with our emotion that is the most dysfunctional and damaging in the long run. We learn how to “tune out” our emotions, disconnect from them, deny them, disown them, suppress them and likewise banish them from our awareness. In other words, we stop feeling. It is as if feelings in their entirety are unacceptable and so they are delegated to the subconscious mind. At a more minor level, this is like a perpetual numbness and suppression and on a more serious level, this is dissociation. In this episode, Teal teaches us how to start feeling again.

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Teal Swan is a revolutionary for personal transformation and is one of The Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the world. As a renowned author, speaker and social media star, she travels the world teaching self-development and teaching people how to transform their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual pain.

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Kuan Yin's Mantra (c) 2002 Lisa Thiel

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[lavarela]

haha as she said "let the train hit you" I hear the train howling and rumbling in the distance. I love when synchronicity is at play.

[talkshh]

when i was a child my parents told me that i shouldn't cry, everytime i didn't cry when something bad happened, they praised me.
i've became so numb i kinda forgot how to feel, you're vids are so helpful

[koosjekosters]

Step 1. Admit to where you are. Be aware that you are not feeling.

Step 2. Practice coming back into your body. (Massaging feet/ankles, warm bath, breathing yourself into your body)

Step 3. Set timer throughout the day report your feelings. Tightness, swelling buzzing. Shame. Try be aware why.

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Step 4.
Use strong emotions. Be fully present with the emotiouns. Undivided attention. Breathe continuously without pause in between breath. Watch video: how to heal the emotional body.

Step 5.
Create feeling experiences. Climb mountain. Swim in ocean.

Step 6
Watch your emotions react to your thoughts. Think a thought 💭 that is absolutely wonderful, see how your emotion react. Think a thought 💭 that is horrible. How emotions react?

Step 7.
Ask yourself what bad thing would happen when I feel?

What is the hidden positive intention I have for not feeling?

Let go of the need to be in control. In order to start feeling if the hidden positive intention of not feeling is to stay in control.

Step 8.
Allowing yourself to express emotions (watch video: how to express emotions)

Step 9.
Willingly feel for the intense dispare.

Step 10.
Aware of what cognitive abilities you use to escape feelings before it happens.

[dantesinporno]

I've spent my entire adult life feeling virtually nothing because I was raised to believe that it's never okay to express any kind of negative emotion. Over the course of many years, I trained myself bury emotional pain under a mountain of false indifference. I've operated for more than a decade with the mentality that if I don't care, nothing can hurt me.

Consequently, I have no idea who I am or what I want. I wouldn't consider myself to be suicidal but I geniunely can't see the point in living anymore.

[lunacollacchi]

i remember when I was young, like a teenager, whenever I was having a good day with my friends, and I was feeling happy for something silly, I used to go home and tell my mom... and she always yelled at me for being silly and to naive...

[BarbaraMerryGeng]

This program is my confirmation. Learning how to ALLOW feelings to pass thru the body after years of isolation has been a terrifying process. How wonderful to finally reach a point of being comfortable. & even enjoying experiencing emotions. The funny thing is, I was always able to sense OTHER people's feelings . Just not my own. Now, it's a whole new world. I still feel scared sometimes that I'm going to get into trouble for having my emotions. I realize it's because of my early training, compounded with religious training, that my feelings are BAD, and therefore, I am BAD. It is wonderful to be free to experience being human.

[rotorstator]

I am alone deep buried in some dark place. no windows, after 39 years of non-life on Earth, almost no light anymore, but just a little bit of music. and Teal's videos are part of this music. No matter what it is, thank you for giving me something this coherent that resonates with me, to help me save me. I am tired of living since a long time, but I still like to understand and be challenged. Thank you for being a generous teacher, Teal. You are saving humans.

[truthlivingetc]

I got hit by that train in November 2016 backstage in Dublin. Teal was that train. Wow. Not a lot of fun at the time.But Teal is the master. I couldn`t take it negatively.I tried to go all negative but her insights are just too good.Her teachings have to be pursued with diligence. You have to do that work. Like learning an instrument. Teal is scary.But sometimes the scary ones are saving you from wasting your time on the spiritual  treadmill. Way to go.

[milk]

A few weeks ago I've come to realize that at some point I've become apathetic. And holy sh*t watching this has shown me that I may have been that person who is super emotionally intelligent to that point where I feel emotions coming from so far off that I find way to get away from them. Being a 2 year old and feeling the disappointment of the adults around me or a slight change in atmosphere, having completely intelligent conversations with adults 5 times my age. I was so confident and enthusiastic and full of excitement an feeling and somewhere along the line I began feeling less and less and and before the age of 4 I didn't even know or understand how it felt like to feel jealousy or hate. I also moved away from trusting people and even myself. Now I just close people out because of fear it seems like fear is the only thing I can feel, fear and anger, I'm not even keen to feeling happiness...however ever since I've discovered your channel I've activated my heart and for the first time in my 22 years of existence i was able to feel agony in my heart. It was strange but exciting because it was different than feeling with my head. This week I felt hurt because this girl who I like ignored me and instead she likes someone else, but I felt like that was development no matter who twisted that sounds. Thank you for this beautiful thing you do in which you help so many people who are suffering in so many different ways.

[elisabethsteel]

When I was a child I felt totally disconnected from myself, because feeling was so excruciatingly painful I became numb, so I learned to disconnect myself from emotional pain, I became totally detached from myself and my environment, today I instinctively do it so that I don't feel the pain inside like the deepest cry of an animal in agony, I'm good at it, at separating myself from myself, why? For self survival, it is my shield, my armor, my safe place, but also my curse. Thank you for showing me how to deal with it!

[Aphroditestars]

I wish the whole world could be as REAL as YOU 💟
I have been viewing and listening to you for 2 years....
Between talking with my counselor and listening to some of your knowledge and has really helped me to come out of the brink of of staying stuck and sinking into a lifeless hole.
I am now doing the best I can to be my authentic self !!!
Thank you for your love and being real.
Love and Hugz Bunches :)

[aaronator_]

My entire perception has changed after watching this video and realising how blind I was to the strategies I subconsciously do to avoid certain emotions and it has put me one step closer to full awareness on negative behaviour. Thank you sm 🤯

[drdemi]

it's no coincidence that "teal"
perfectly rhymes on "being real".

[thehallwayceiling]

im horrible with feeling my own feelings. Always have been. The end result is that Im tense and angry a lot. And i experience weird anxiety that makes me feel out of touch with reality.

About 9 months ago i was experiencing the weird anxiety for about 3 days straight. The i started feeling really sad about all my life choices and about my existence in general. I cried in front of a large group of people and told them how upset i was. It was really scary, but it led to the greatest two weeks of my life.

For the next two weeks I actually FELT all my feelings. And it was amazing. Even when i was sad, i could just be sad and not run away from it. I also felt things like contentment, love, compassion, rapture peace. Those were all foreign to me. I also began to appreciate art and poetry, which had always baffled me before.

But then came a moment when i was faced with a lot of pain and instead of expressing it, i ran from it and tried to hide it. That led to the most horrifying month of my life. I was still feeling, but i was almost perpetually feeling fear, anxiety and panic. Eventually i became frustrated and learned to shut down again.

Since then i have been trying to feel again. Like all the time. Nothing seems to work. I just stay tense and angry. I really think i may be someone who needs to verbally express my emotions to someone to feel them. But that is embarrassing and terrifying. And i am pretty sure no one really eants to hear about my feelings, especially since i dont even know what they are most of the time. I really feel stuck.

[screwhalunderhill]

Thank you so much for this video. I was lost and confused and now I know where to start. Today I felt strong despair for the first time in years. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you, you do an incredible job and you helped me.

[SnowCone]

I have been watching this woman for almost a decade now. Im always coming back to her videos because there’s stuff im constantly not understanding. But this one I feel I don’t come back to a lot. I understand every one of her words. Emotions and feelings is not something that is a stranger to me. Im really empathetic and highly emotional and highly reactive. I love this cause it describes perfectly how to align with feelings. But i feel it’s a teaching I’ve already learned and worked through, namaste 🙏

[starleak]

O yea, nail it again :) People are running from feelings so they are running from them self.

[bekkalove]

Things are finally starting to click for me. These last two videos have served as some sort of immense epiphany that I haven't felt in a little while. So so so excited!

[graveyardghost]

Lord Byron the English poet said it was the world that was messed up, "he" was sane. Agree! I feel that so much of the problem is that we are made to suppress our true selves. Thst always ends badly, so my advice is know thyself, be who you really are NO MATTER WHAT. Or else you will never be truly happy. Ignore whoever's doesnt like it--they just want to make you be like them, even if they are sick and twisted and miserable! Be brave...be yourself. I used to have a button that said "I'm Not Weird, I'm Gifted!" You will never be happy until you allow yourself to be your authentic self. If you dont know who that is, you have some work to do, dont you? One thing I did growing up, was to look outside my immediate family for role models...people who thought and felt like I did. What I discovered, was that most of the people I strongly identified with had died in the 19th century! (Teal Swan type of laugh here) But hey, that can happen! :)

[brynmagee]

Wow! When I was younger, I used to avoid my feelings. In fact, I believed they did not exist in me. Then a "black pit" formed in my stomach. It was my wake up call to speak with someone. Years later, I learned how to feel and grow. Thank you for your insight, Teal - it is a confirmation of my work completed. All the best!