Comments on: Drop Your Story http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/09/14/drop-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drop-story Wayne C. Allen - a simple Zen guy - writes about living and relating elegantly Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Antonio http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/09/14/drop-story/#comment-497 Antonio Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:58:35 +0000 http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/?p=318#comment-497 Great piece Wayne. My experience when working on my issues (which are endless, thank God), I sometimes go to my head and the battle begins. For me there, is a palpable difference between working from my head and working from my Feeling Heart. I do not feel and stay in my head at the same time. What I do to leave my head in order to feel are some tools that I have picked up over the years. Using movement with affirmations, stomping my feet on the ground and saying something like, "I refuse to feel", "I make my story bigger than my heart". At times I go as far as hitting a punching bag in my spare room and saying the affirmations I mentioned before. I enjoy your writings and look forward to your next article with mucho enthusiasm. antonio Great piece Wayne. My experience when working on my issues (which are endless, thank God), I sometimes go to my head and the battle begins. For me there, is a palpable difference between working from my head and working from my Feeling Heart. I do not feel and stay in my head at the same time. What I do to leave my head in order to feel are some tools that I have picked up over the years. Using movement with affirmations, stomping my feet on the ground and saying something like, “I refuse to feel”, “I make my story bigger than my heart”. At times I go as far as hitting a punching bag in my spare room and saying the affirmations I mentioned before.

I enjoy your writings and look forward to your next article with mucho enthusiasm.

antonio

]]> By: wayne http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/09/14/drop-story/#comment-498 wayne Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:01 +0000 http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/?p=318#comment-498 Hi Antonio, Thanks for the great comment. I suspect the most difficult task I have as a therapist is getting people out of their heads. It's why I added bodywork into the mix, although some still resist simply being in the body, and spend their bodywork time thinking about the experience. Your approaches are all ones that we suggest (I once thought about setting up a store and selling clients heavy bags...) If you are interested, there's a book by one of the key players at The Haven (sadly, she died last year...) taught a course and wrote a book called, Anger, Boundaries and Safety. The book has a ton of illustrated exercises for getting at emotions (not just anger.) Any interested, check it at <a href="http://phoenixcentre.com/s/4" rel="nofollow">http://phoenixcentre.com/s/4</a> Hi Antonio,
Thanks for the great comment. I suspect the most difficult task I have as a therapist is getting people out of their heads. It’s why I added bodywork into the mix, although some still resist simply being in the body, and spend their bodywork time thinking about the experience.
Your approaches are all ones that we suggest (I once thought about setting up a store and selling clients heavy bags…)
If you are interested, there’s a book by one of the key players at The Haven (sadly, she died last year…) taught a course and wrote a book called, Anger, Boundaries and Safety. The book has a ton of illustrated exercises for getting at emotions (not just anger.)
Any interested, check it at http://phoenixcentre.com/s/4

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