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The Forgotten Dialect:
Our Body Language
Part 17: Life Changes
by: Dr. Roger Gietzen
Neurologist & Mindbody Medicine Specialist
Navigating Life
Major changes in our life experiences can occur without major changes in our life situations. This happens by simply changing the way we interact with our stressors. Remember that what bothers us now is really an echo of a distant undigested painful experience. Making major life changes to avoid stress is not going to erase our emotional baggage. It will only produce a new set of emotional “button pushers”. Until we start improving our distorted perspective, we will tend to be drawn to a job, relationship or living situation that will eventually stress us out. Our distorted perspectives and tendency to avoid discomfort will blind us from making nourishing life choices. To truly improve our experience of stress we need to first unplug our “stuff and distract” reactions. We need to learn to fully feel intense emotions without simultaneously believing that something is seriously wrong here and now. This shift is the most important change we can make in our life. However, our reactions to some stressors may be so habitual and so unconscious, that the only way we can stop reacting to them is by changing our situation even before we've developed our emotional awareness. This stressor may be a destructive job, relationship, habit or place of residence. When to make this change is one of the toughest decisions to make in life. This is decision only we can make for ourselves. If it is obvious that we need to make a change in our life, we must do so carefully. Remember that a new life situation might eventually start to push our buttons again. However, having a new face on our emotional “button pushers” might be the fresh start we need. It will be easier for us to forgive the situation and embrace the emotion that was triggered by it. It may be the exact opportunity we need to start proving to ourselves that we can endure the most intense of emotions without playing the role of victim.
The Forgotten Dialect, Part 1
The Forgotten Dialect, Part 2
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 3: Mindbody Research
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 4: Mindbody Research Continued
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 5: More Mindbody Research
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 6: Additional Mindbody Research
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 7: Mindbody Research on Pain
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 8: Anecdotal Mindbody Research
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 9: Mindbody Psychology
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 10: More Mindbody Psychology
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 11: Mindbody Psychology Details
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 12: Mindbody Psychology Examples
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 13: Mindbody Psychology Cycles
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 14: Mindbody Treatments
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 15: The Presence Process
The Forgotten Dialect: Part 16: Mindbody Treatment Offerings
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9/16/11
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