ALLOW THE WATERS TO MOVE ~ A GUIDED PRACTICE TO FEEL AN EMOTION ALL THE WAY THROUGH

Oooooof, after my post about how much I’ve grown and learned to metabolize Cancer Season, and how grounded I feel, the past few days have felt CRUNCHY. The emotions are running high, and not just for me! I was already planning on sharing this practice, and then I was just laughing to myself how necessary it really is right now. It’s funny, we are in so many ways these little tender beings ruled by our emotions, and yet, most of us don’t even know how to feel what we are feeling deeply - and all the way through - so that it can assimilate into our system.I find time and again that our resistance to feeling is where so much of our turmoil comes from - often it’s not actually the feeling itself - rather, it’s the brakes we’re slamming on, or the backflips we are doing to avoid the truth. When we don’t allow ourselves to feel, and allow our emotions to move through us, they can begin to speak in other ways - anxiety that hums beneath the surface, tension in the body, exhaustion, numbness, rumination…This practice is an invitation to gently work with anything you might be currently feeling, so that you can learn to actually feel it.I share the process of titration, where we approach an emotion in small, manageable doses so your nervous system can stay regulated while your body processes what it’s been holding.This can be incredibly supportive to move through something you are experiencing right now, or, to work with something you might have moved aside.This practice allows us to build our capacity and discover that our emotions are not permanent identities or ultimate truths. They are experiences that move through us.If you have been feeling the feels. If things feel crunchy. If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like there’s something sitting just beneath the surface…This is an invitation to work with it all, and allow the waters to move. Let me know how it goes :) Get full access to INNER TIDE | AYLA at innertide.substack.com/subscribe