Emotions

Working with emotional states: grief, anger, shame, envy, crying, emotional processing and completion

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 13,755 posts.

Trusted voices in Emotions

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  1. visakanv — trusted by 183 posters here
  2. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 167 posters here
  3. nosilverv — trusted by 171 posters here
  4. AskYatharth — trusted by 152 posters here
  5. vividvoid — trusted by 147 posters here
  6. RichDecibels — trusted by 149 posters here
  7. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 123 posters here
  8. christineist — trusted by 130 posters here
  9. the_wilderless — trusted by 133 posters here
  10. univrsw3th4rt — trusted by 119 posters here
  11. s0ulDirect0r — trusted by 108 posters here
  12. goblinodds — trusted by 118 posters here

Top posts in Emotions

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  1. another: this lil guy is one of the most incompetent people I know and I love him more than I can put into words. this simple fact slices through an incredibly overwrought Gordian knot in my… (visakanv) — 41 likes
  2. I made a dumb joke and she laughed like this spilling all that beauty into the room like copper coins dropped from a pocket and for the thousandth time I thought let's never stop doing this… (RichDecibels) — 40 likes
  3. there's an emotional profile I've seen numerous people navigate but never adequately named, the unbelievably painful hangover that comes after a particular kind of peak experience: 1. lonely… (RichDecibels) — 40 likes
  4. LET THE BODY KEEP THE SCORELET THE BODY KEEP THE SCORELET THE BODY KEEP THESCOOOOOOORE (qorprate) — 39 likes
  5. time and time again i keep finding that pooping is one of the best analogies for talking about emotion. i hesitate to use it because it's a bit gross, but ime it almost always gets the point across… (visakanv) — 37 likes
  6. at the first bio-emotive retreat i was paired up to facilitate bio-emotive for this woman. we started with "there's this friend who owes me money and i haven't been on her case about it" got to "why… (QiaochuYuan) — 35 likes
  7. crying is a process adults rarely let themselves *complete*; the complete process feels like too much to ask for, it is loud, it makes you look insane or like a child or both, other people get… (QiaochuYuan) — 34 likes
  8. This is an appreciation tweet for everyone who is quietly holding it together and not taking their shit out on anybody else. I appreciate you and I hope everything goes wonderfully for you 💐 (visakanv) — 33 likes
  9. this is another thing i used to believe strongly and don’t anymore. again this is a helpful corrective starting from a (sadly very common) position of being overwhelmed by “toxic shame”. but there… (QiaochuYuan) — 33 likes
  10. this was maybe the first time i'd ever seen someone *finish* crying. there's a reason i kept talking about this. she *completely finished* crying and afterwards her energy was completely… (QiaochuYuan) — 32 likes
  11. normally I try to keep deep personal stuff off the internetbut this was such a big blindspot that I want to share in case it helps anyone else🩷🩷🩷for the last year and a half, I have been asking… (metaLulie) — 32 likes
  12. # Spell to Banish Shame At the age of eleven I survived sexual assault it nearly broke me but here I stand ready to count my blessings owning where I come from makes the life I now enjoy all the… (zencephalon) — 32 likes
  13. the twist is that actually everyone is an empath but also most of the time people are emitting an empathic request to not be empathically read, which most people respect. self-declared empaths are… (QiaochuYuan) — 31 likes
  14. I am experiencing intense amounts of its going to be alright when I think about the future these days (RichDecibels) — 31 likes
  15. one of the wildest things i’ve had to repeatedly relearn is that emotions only feel like they last forever if you resist them if you open up to them they flow through you like water (QiaochuYuan) — 30 likes
  16. after she finished crying she - i have no other words for this - looked angelic. like an angel. beatific. i'd never seen a person's face look the way hers looked in that moment. she was beautiful in… (QiaochuYuan) — 30 likes
  17. *slaps roof of muscle tension* this bad boy can fit so much unacknowledged grief in it (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  18. no one ever told me the 5 stages of grief are straightforwardly functional denial: yeah, sometimes "problems" are kinda fake and will go away anger: sometimes raising the energy to fight back solves… (the_wilderless) — 29 likes
  19. took me years to begin to understand that one of the most heroic things you can do is not hate yourself (visakanv) — 28 likes
  20. After I healed the cognitive damage from PTSD last year, I still had a lot of bitterness and obsessive anger, every day, for months on end. I was recently able to heal that emotional damage with an… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  21. alright imma log off for a while almost cussed out like five mutuals and eliezer in the last hour here before realizing I'm seeking this anger to distract myself from grief 💔🇮🇱 (myhandle) — 28 likes
  22. this was one of the most beautiful and sacred and humbling moments of my life and it was significant to me that it had happened with no assistance from psychedelics, but instead from creating… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  23. I took mdma yesterday and I met my anger and she is so beautiful (christineist) — 28 likes
  24. and it is significant that the lesson i took away from this experience was that, finally, i had a reliable technique for making myself cry when i was *alone*, so that i could grieve without needing… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  25. my new hot take: the reason men are "bad" at discussing their feelings isn't because vulnerability needs to be normalized or w/e, but because psychology as taught isn't rigorous or systematic enough… (qorprate) — 27 likes
  26. that did something literally magical to the atmosphere i'm not sure i've seen anywhere else to this day. we had temporarily just made it completely *socially* normal to be in unbelievably agonizing… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  27. my time among the rationalists and my experiences with circling had convinced me that unbelievably agonizing amounts of emotional pain were underneath a lot of the other stuff that people seemed to… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  28. I will not be sad in this world https://t.co/bDPhCKSBEC (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  29. We seem grossly oversupplied on suffering, overall. I mean a little suffering now and then for good cause, that’s one of the spices of life, but this is absurd. Who ordered all this suffering? What… (eshear) — 26 likes
  30. being embarrassed about being stuck always prolongs the stuckedness (visakanv) — 25 likes
  31. PSA: If you keep thinking about it, write it down, set an alarm, emotionally process it (somatically, not narratively), make a decision. Looping is a sign of something that doesn't fit in working… (RomeoStevens76) — 25 likes
  32. i am always pouring some love down the drain because i used to be a sewer rat who needed it (visakanv) — 25 likes
  33. I had a difficult time at vibecamp. Walking around alone, feeling like I didn't have anything to contribute, desperate to meet and be held. And within all that countless sweet moments of connection.… (UntilTrees) — 25 likes
  34. haven't seen anyone else say it yet so, obligatory tweet that I disliked the dating show and left after 20m. too unhinged and shadowy for my tastes. raised SO much shadow energy but didn't do… (relic_radiation) — 25 likes
  35. Listen this sounds unhinged but I healed prob 75% of my anger issues with one weird trick. Buy some cheap Goodwill furniture, drive it to a campsite, chop it with an ax while yelling every horrible… (vividvoid) — 24 likes
  36. Body literally repressing good feelings bc you made a pact with yourself that you can only feel good once you achieve [GOAL]. Tragic (nosilverv) — 24 likes
  37. Oh I get it When I don't like myself, I'm still stuck with myself, so I start telling myself all the things I'd say to a guy who I don't like, who won't leave me alone (bashu_thanks) — 24 likes
  38. the essential feature of her pain was: that in her hour of most desperate need, when she was the most lost and most confused and most in need of support, the people closest to her withdrew further… (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  39. you might expect it to feel stressful but at least for me there was something unbelievably insanely relaxing about hearing literally a dozen different people in a big echoey room sobbing like they… (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  40. one of the richest parts of this analogy to me is that if you're pooping regularly and normally you don't have to think about it at all, it fades into the background. it only comes into focus as a… (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  41. reading a tweet of myself 7 years ago feeling a lot of love for his younger self and feeling a lot of love for them both https://t.co/XOtb6aNUoV (visakanv) — 24 likes
  42. one of the most beneficial skills you can develop for your wellbeing is knowing how to complete an emotional process, rather than taking it's residue with you. but I don't know if there's a name for… (RichDecibels) — 24 likes
  43. abstraction can be a kind of defense. it sort of feels like it’s addressing your pain but it shields you from most of the emotional charge that specific memories of specific experiences bring up (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  44. avoiding pleasure chokes off growth in exactly the same way as avoiding pain (relic_radiation) — 23 likes
  45. The Bio-Emotive Framework: An Escape from the Hell of Unprocessed Emotionshttps://t.co/uUmXflYHL8 (tasshinfogleman) — 23 likes
  46. it was deeply meaningful to me to see someone actively wrestling with what seemed to me to be literally the maximum level of emotional pain, literally the most in pain it was possible for a person… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  47. sometimes you get hurt in a way that is incomprehensible to you. you literally do not have any words or concepts to describe or explain, to yourself or other people, how or in what way you were… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  48. took a moment to feel it and it's crazy how much more room i still have to be kinder to myself. and i thought i was pretty kind already (visakanv) — 23 likes
  49. this was me up until ~27. i still occasionally have a bit of it. ymmv, but in my journey my understanding has been, the way out is through. you can't banish the gut reaction. rather you gotta find a… (visakanv) — 23 likes
  50. screaming, crying, throwing up https://t.co/4GocW6qe4V (xsphi) — 23 likes

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