24: From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness

This episode is about my personal story of moving from emotional numbness to wholeness, navigating and developing a range of emotions, my perspective on how emotional experience changes over time, and an integrative blend of practices that can help develop emotional capacity and resilience. In individual podcasts over the week, I will offer healing meditations that you can practice to develop your own emotional capacity.

 

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Show Notes & Timestamps 

 00:00 Brief Overview of This Episode

00:32 New Intro With Music!

01:10 Thank You to Nick

01:42 Sponsored by You via Patreon

02:16 Update About My Travels

05:18 Start of the Show : How Can I Have Such a Capacity for Emotions and Did I Always Have It?

05:38 I Only Started Feeling 9 Years Ago

05:57 Growing Up in a Chinese Family

06:29 Being a Sensitive Child

06:46 Rebelling in Middle School

07:00 Bringing Emotions Home

07:10 Elders in China

07:43 No Idea How to Handle the Emotions Inside

08:06 EMDR : What is It?

09:19 How It Helped (Feeling in the Body / Naming Emotions)

09:42 Small “t” Trauma : Experiencing Neglect, Abandonment, Emotional & Verbal Relational Abuse

10:13 Visiting a Body Centered Therapist

10:49 Faking My Way Through Life

11:16 Developing My Range : I Could Experience Only 5 Emotions

12:55 Why EMDR is Interesting

13:56 Seeing Progress : Rating Emotions & Sensations

14:56 Brainwave Vibration

15:40 How Yoga Reflects the Same Practice

16:37 This is Not Easy!

17:20 How I Got From There to Where I Am Today

18:23 Leap of Faith Into Grad School for Clinical Psychology

19:04 Finding Family Constellations

21:01 Somatic Experiencing; More Science Behind Emotions and Trauma

22:05 Learning That Emotions Are Completely Helpful

22:38 Mention Brené Brown

22:41 We Can't Numb Out “Negative” Feelings Without Numbing Out the Rest

23:32 10 Years Ago : How Can I Get Rid of My Emotions?

23:53 Now : Allying With Emotions

24:51 Trauma : The Experience of Something Incomplete | The Gift of Trauma in My Life

26:46 The Emotional Evolution Spectrum

27:34 Stage 1: Repression & Protection

28:40 Stage 2: Ability to Experience in My Body With a Safe Person

30:51 Stage 3: feel/tolerate Some Challenging Emotions Alone

32:23 Stage 4: Learning to Enjoy My Experiences, Emotions, and Feelings

33:24 Stage 5: Beginning to Feeling Pleasure in Almost Every Single Emotion : I Am Not My Emotions

34:39 Stage 6: Shifting to Easier Ways to Move Through

35:57 Embodied Experience / Using Different Spiritual / Embodied Technologies to Shift

36:53 Spiritual Bypass

37:37 Resisting body/emotional Experience to Finding Wisdom in Them

38:14 Now I Can't Imagine to Live Without the Emotions

38:30 Doing This Podcast Three Times / Resistance / Recognizing / Moving Through

40:01 Your Takeaway

40:14 Offerings: The Upcoming Three Meditations

41:48 Outro