hard day. a lot of hard emotions.
days like this I feel like I'm sharing my brain office with this super-pissed ogre of a coworking partner. They keep running into me and interrupting my work.
The emotions drain the blood from my cognition and redirects it to sensory and non-cognitive regions.
Stress changes how you think and how you perceive your world.
@sudonymm oh God, you hit the nail on the head. I don’t think I’ve heard it described so accurately.
I know what is happening and I know it’s not what I want, but I can’t turn it off. I can’t make it stop.
@funkatron I probably spend too long trying to articulate these things, haha.
It’s hard ‘cos it’s this whole process of rewiring your brain to fix it. The more you just “try”to stop through willpower, the more your brain will fire those neuron circuits, because you’re placing attention on it. Brain basically says “oh, that must be important, I better keep doing that”, and on and on the merry-go-round goes. (1/2)
@funkatron I’ve had a bit of success with imagining the Bad Thoughts being bubbled, then extracted out of my head via a fishing line where I can “see” them in front of my face. And then I think, “I see you, but not right now.”
Repeat ad nauseum. But I feel like it can help take away some of the emotional sting.
Funkatron (Ed Finkler)
SudoNymm