3 ways to sit with a feeling until the insight tumbles out (intro)
I like to think of feelings as eggs 🥚
Your Automatic Brain takes in the facts of a situation 👀
It does a ton of thinking and calculation and computation… 🤔
(All of it under the surface, below your conscious awareness… 😶🌫️)
And then your Automatic Brain hands you an egg 🥚
Your brain is like: “Here! This is the result of all my thinking, calculation, and computation! This is the answer!” 🎁
But here’s the thing about the egg.
It’s just an egg – not a fully hatched chick.
It’s just a feeling — not yet a fully articulated insight.
It’s the SEED of an insight — but it’s not yet the insight itself.
And in order to get the full insight…
YOU need to incubate the egg.
So in this series, I’m going to give you 3 ways to incubate the egg 🥚
3 ways to sit with a feeling until the insight tumbles out 🐣
And I know “sitting with your feelings” can feel very mystical or fuzzy or vague and hard to articulate.
You may have heard this advice before and thought, “Okay, but HOW do I sit with a feeling?? What specifically am I supposed to be DOING?”
But you don’t need advanced meditation techniques or a PhD in Zen Buddhism to do what I’m suggesting.
You already know how to do everything that I’m going to suggest.
We’re going to take skills you already have in a different area of your life and apply them over here.
You’re not learning anything new.
You’re just going to be doing things you already know how to do — in a new arena.
I’ll start with Way #1 tomorrow.
But for today, I just want you to consider this idea…
What if your feelings are not problems to be solved…
Not blockers to be cleared…
Not obstacles to be overcome…
Not wounds to be healed…
What if even your most inconvenient, unpleasant, spiky, scary emotions…
Are actually unhatched insights?
And they simply need to be incubated in a warm, cozy, understanding environment until they’re ready to come out?
Tune in for Way #1 to sit with a feeling until the insight tumbles out — tomorrow :)
And if you want to get those insights out extra fast…
If you want to sit down and learn the full suite of techniques I have for doing this…
And if you want to custom support to help you actually practice and implement everything until you know it back to front…
That’s exactly what my one-on-one coaching program is for :)
What my clients have to say…
“Everything in the world is about feelings.
At the end of the day, that's the reality of the human condition.
And so to get to this level of analytical rigor around my feelings is just so helpful.”
—Client | CEO, PE-backed company
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