A common thing when you start exploring sensory stuff is that you find all this stuff that you’ve been shutting out, you’ve been working to dissociate from, to ignore, to numb, or to cancel out in various ways.
And it just feels like everything is just more annoying rather than helping. 1/3
Occasionally, I’ll wear a couple of my shirts that have collars, but I’m constantly tugging at them all day long. And I hate anything touching my neck, but I kept buying shirts with collars. 1/3
Blunted pathways in the insula cortex cause the brain to miss gradual signals. Hunger doesn't build slowly. It arrives as a physical emergency.
You didn't forget to eat. Your body failed to warn you.
Your body knows things.
Getting in touch with my physical sensations helps me make decisions, because my body gets more tense when I think about one option and more relaxed when I think about another. 1/2
When emotions come up, it can help to ask yourself what you're noticing in your body right then. That starts connecting "hey, there's an emotional experience here" with the physical sensations connected to it. 1/2
If physical sensations and emotions seem non-relevant to you, like they did to me for most of my life, here’s an explanation. 1/5
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For many of us, it’s really hard to know what we want, or even acknowledge that we have wants (especially when wanting has been very thoroughly trained out of us), but I guarantee you that you have wants. 1/3
Get very specific, around the negative thoughts that come up for you. What is it actually saying?
What are the goals of those thoughts? Are they trying to talk you out of something? Are they trying to help you by keeping you out of a situation that you got hurt in before? Are they repeating the things that you heard as a kid?
Another on “how to human?!?”
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“Trust your gut!”
Okkkkkkk
But what does mean/feel like exactly???
Apparently it’s this. 👇
What do you think?
Will increasing internal awareness make things worse?
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach
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