A simple practice for letting your feelings actually land. Most people don't pause long enough to let their own feelings land. We tell the story. We explain the situation. We give the context. We move quickly through the what happened and the why I'm upset and the what I should do about it . And the whole time, the feeling itself, the actual experience in the body, never gets a chance to be felt. So I've started using a phrase with my clients lately. Pause that for a second. Where do you feel that in your body? It's not stop . Stop sounds like put it away, we're done with that . Pause is different. Pause says we'll come back to the story in a minute. Right now, let's actually feel what's there. A Story About Grief That Wasn't About Death I did this with a long-term client recently. He'd been telling me about something that had been quietly bothering him for weeks. Surface story. Work frustration. Family logistics. I asked him to pause, dr...
By Rick Reynolds | TranceBreakers A client reached out to me recently. She's an intuitive, deeply self-aware woman who has done years of serious inner work. She had a question before booking a session. "I've already done many of these things. Is receiving it all in one document more powerful than what I've received separately over the years?" And then the real question underneath: "I'm having an internal struggle with some of the personality profiler things. I want it to be helpful, but I don't want it to put me in a box. I find some people use their behavior as an excuse — 'That's because I'm a Cancer.' Or 'I'm a Manifesting Generator so that's why I behave this way.' Do you think this is a good investment for me knowing I've done so much already?" She was right to ask. And her concern is one I hear often from the people who are most ready for this work. So let me answer it honestly — for her and for anyone ...