The analysis paralysis trap (and how to free yourself)
🧠➡️💓Are you feeling those feels or thinking about them??
"Sitting with it" is a lot harder than it sounds.
In reality, most of us prefer thinking about our feelings than actually *being* with them 💬
Which makes sense. We're taught from the very beginning to see difficult feelings as something to be avoided, fixed, controlled, or solved.
The thing is...
Intellectualizing can easily become a cover up for fear of direct experience 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
Because thinking gives us an escape. It creates a buffer from actually touching our true feels and experiencing the full spectrum of sensations they naturally create when moving through the body 🌀
But what does this mean for your spiritual development? Does the body really matter?
Tuning into the heart = tuning into the body. Plain and simple.
Feeling is sacred. Embodiment is medicine.
This is the inner work we often bypass for more "productive" left brain pursuits. This is the harsh truth resting just beneath our habitual attempts to subtly ignore, numb, leave, or downplay the importance of the body.
Sometimes we even rush through nuanced situations, decisions, and entire relationships just to end an uncomfortable feeling 🛑
Because connecting to our genuine feelings is scary, foreign, and requires more of us.
It takes deep vulnerability and openness to whatever is true for us in the moment 📍
It takes courage and devoted presence to allow each wave of emotion, feeling, and sensation to come and go without attaching a story, label, or fear to it.
So as you explore authentically relating to your inner experience, be gentle and remember:
It's not a performance, it's a practice 🙃
Often, it's simply asking inside: is there something within me now that wants or needs to be felt?
Just listen. Don't think, just feel 💓
May we find the space within where all feelings are welcome.
May we experience the sheer beauty and healing power of an embodied heart.
May our minds find true rest as we honor whatever is alive in us today.
💙💚
- julie mae
p.s. - Want some help releasing the root of these mental gymnastics? When you’re ready to step into deeper embodiment and align with your bodily intelligence, I’m here to support. Explore my heart-centered offerings or shoot me a message.
