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I Don't Know What I Feel Anymore: The Quiet Cost of Emotional Disconnection · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: When someone asks you how you're feeling, do you ever
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  Speaker 1: pause for a second longer than usual? You're not hiding anything,
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  Speaker 1: but you genuinely don't know what to say. You search
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  Speaker 1: for an answer like fine, tired, just a bit stressed.
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  Speaker 1: Something close enough, something that ends the conversation, but the
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  Speaker 1: truth is you don't really know what you feel anymore.
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  Speaker 1: From the outside, nothing really seems wrong. You show up,
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  Speaker 1: you respond, you keep things moving. But inside, it's unclear.
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  Speaker 1: Not quite sad. Not quite okay. Not even numb in
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  Speaker 1: a way that you can explain. Just something distant. Something
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  Speaker 1: hard to reach. Today, we're going to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: it means when you can't seem to understand your emotions anymore. So,
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  Speaker 1: Not knowing what you feel isn't the absence of emotion.
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  Speaker 1: It's often what happens when you've had to ignore your
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  Speaker 1: feelings for a long time. Maybe you're the one who
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  Speaker 1: always has to stay calm when things get overwhelming. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe expressing yourself didn't go well in the past. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe life just kept moving and you didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: space to stop and ask. How am I really? So
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  Speaker 1: your mind adapted instead of checking in with how you feel,
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  Speaker 1: learn to focus on what needs to be done. What's next?
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  Speaker 1: What's expected? What keeps things stable? And over time, that
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  Speaker 1: connection to yourself, can start to fade into the background.
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  Speaker 1: There is a cost to that. When you don't recognize
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  Speaker 1: your emotions, they don't disappear. They just become harder to access.
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  Speaker 1: You might notice it in subtle ways, like struggling to
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  Speaker 1: explain what's bothering you, feeling disconnected during moments that used
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  Speaker 1: to matter to you, or reacting strongly to something and
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  Speaker 1: not understanding why. Sometimes it feels like a kind of emptiness,
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  Speaker 1: and other times it feels like everything at once, without clarity,
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  Speaker 1: and it can be frustrating. Like, how do you take
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  Speaker 1: care of yourself when you don't even know what you need?
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  Speaker 1: Before we continue, we want to say this. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being here, for watching, for listening, and for being
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  Speaker 1: a part of this space with us. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your comments. We read as many as we can. Definitely
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the ones you think we don't see.
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  Speaker 1: And hearing your stories and your experiences means more than
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  Speaker 1: you probably realize. This community exists because of you and
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  Speaker 1: we're really grateful that you're here. You matter. Okay, back
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  Speaker 1: to the video. If you've lost touch with your feelings,
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  Speaker 1: they're not gone. It just means that your mind has
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  Speaker 1: been trying to protect you as our minds love to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only way it knows how. When things feel
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming or unsafe, Our brains don't always process everything fully.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it creates distance instead. It's trying to help you function.
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  Speaker 1: And for a while it works. Until one day you
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  Speaker 1: realize you don't quite feel like yourself anymore. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you begin to reconnect with something that feels so
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  Speaker 1: far away? It doesn't have to start with understanding everything.
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  Speaker 1: It can start with something much smaller. So instead of
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  Speaker 1: what am I feeling, it's what do I notice right now?
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  Speaker 1: A bit of tension, a sense of heaviness, a moment
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  Speaker 1: of calm. Where do you feel it in your body?
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  Speaker 1: Let yourself sit with it without needing to label it
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  Speaker 1: right away. And over time, those little moments of awareness
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  Speaker 1: can build that connection back. The goal is to feel
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  Speaker 1: safe enough to be honest with yourself again, even if
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  Speaker 1: that honesty sounds like I don't know what I feel,
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  Speaker 1: but I know something is there. That's a start. And
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  Speaker 1: on a final note, you don't need to have everything
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  Speaker 1: figured out to be worthy of care. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: clear answers to deserve patience, and you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: understand your emotions completely to begin taking care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been feeling disconnected for a while, Be gentle
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  Speaker 1: with yourself. That distance didn't come out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: it didn't come from nothing. It came from trying to
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  Speaker 1: get through things the best way you could. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: now you're allowed to do more. More than just get
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  Speaker 1: through the day. Maybe now you're allowed to come back
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. We've been thinking about creating more videos on
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  Speaker 1: how to manage your emotions and building on that guided
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  Speaker 1: meditation series for different feelings you might be going through.
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  Speaker 1: You can find a bunch of them on our homepage,
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  Speaker 1: and if there's anything you'd like us to work on next,
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  Speaker 1: feel free to leave a comment. We'll try to create
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  Speaker 1: something based on what you need. Again, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the support, for being here, for letting this space exist
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  Speaker 1: with us, and thank you for those perfect timing messages.
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  Speaker 1: They give us those strange mix of feelings, a bit
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  Speaker 1: of warmth and a bit of sadness at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: because it means this found you at a moment that
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  Speaker 1: you really needed it. but we're really glad that we
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  Speaker 1: could be there for you in those moments. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: you in the next one. Until then, take care.