'Feel it to Heal It'- Healing the Body Through Openly Feeling Everything
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This is essentially the practice that allowed me to heal from chronic anxiety and various symptoms I've encountered over the years. I use it daily for any feeling that catches my attention and when my inclination is to avoid it or try to fix a feeling. I call this practice 'Feel it to Heal It'- It's quite simple and profound and makes a lot of sense- except we don't this when we uncomfortable feelings arise. We have a tendency to shut down, suppress, fight, flee, resist or react to uncomfortable feelings in the body. The key is to do the opposite- embrace and open to all feelings the body gives you- they are all meant to be felt fully; and when they are felt fully they change and ultimately pass.
Jim Prussack PT works with people suffering from chronic health ailments. He uses an approach that targets the brain and nervous system as science now supports the the role of the brain and nervous system in chronic health conditions. To learn more, please go to www.thepainpt.com.
Just a note to all, if you try feel your feelings and sensations to try get rid of them, you will make the resistance to feeling worse, you need to feel safe and welcoming to allow exactly what is there. With the intention that its ok as it is. Not to want to get rid or to change, suttle but HUGE
Beautifully said. Thank you
Hello I respect Your opinion.Just coz it was like that for you doesn't mean it's like that with everyone
Having suffered Complex Ptsd for three years, i can tell you that this is the ONLY way to heal, its not easy at first AND after you repeat repeat repeat and repeat another 300 times You will Recover, AMEN for UA-cam and channels like this one,
How often and for how long each time do you practice this exercise to feel it to heal it?
There is no formula dont give up its personal but if you insist itll hapoen. Have faith. (I dont mean religious)
When you said to tell the feeling it is okay and welcome it, not only did I feel it shift, it brought up tears. I can’t believe this. Thank you so much
Cptsd from childhood abuse and alcoholic family.
In the Dark night for some years.. this past year (I’m 32-woman), has been very dark and isolating. I felt exhausted of containing inside all that pain, exhausted from running form it.
Body hurts so much, emotional pain is so heavy it even physical. I found that when this heavy painful emotions come up from the depths, it helps to say: This feeling is legitimate and it makes total sense taking into account what you went through. And then it just comes up so hard; I cry so hard.. there’s like a fear behind this feelings, fear of being back in the past.. but saying this words makes me realize I’m here and it’s time to rest and it makes total sense to be so sad.. loosing your family as a kid is meant to feel sad and painful.. I can feel my soul when this moments happen, as an old friend I did not see in a long time, I even feel more present and calm afterwards. But it’s so uncomfortable.
I appreciate deeply this video of support and guidance!
Thank you for walking us through an example of how to feel it to heal it 😊
I discovered dr. Sarno many years ago after he had written the Mind-body Prescription. I have also read books by other authors such as Steve Ozanich. This has helped me get over more physical issues that I can leave a list. I recently I've discovered that a lot of depression and sadness and even loneliness can be attributed to past trauma. I never approached these as TMS related but I'm finding this to be true. I heard you speak on the Mind and Fitness podcast. I enjoyed that interview and I must say that your channel has been very helpful to me because I am approaching my emotional pain the same way you advise approaching physical pain and it has helped tremendously! Thank you!
I'm in San Diego. Your videos are helping me so much!!!! Cfs/long covid and recovering
How wonderful that we have someone like you! This information is life saving!
Fully open yourself to physical sensations, feelings.
When i feel my pain i can cry for hours and it is very intense. I wonder if it is good? It feels good to let it all out but at the same time it is exhausting and feels like never ending
Thanku u r awesome a gift to society
Trying to accept these sensation still after a year of experiencing them . I’m working on it mentally but somehow I can’t accept pain . I don’t like pain and I always be so tempted to call the er or make sure I’m at the nearest hospital when I know there’s nothing physically wrong I’ve been checked so many times . But I’m still learning this .. thank you for taking me one step closer
I love this video!!
It helps me a lot more than trying to be indifferent to the pain!
I also see more value in feeling it all, then in being indifferent.
Indifferent sounds a little unkind to me..
Yes I agree this is the simplest approach and also one that makes sense. What is there needs and wants to be expressed. When we try to stop it or run from it (fight or flight) we deny (suppress) it’s natural expression. Glad ur finding it helpful
SO powerful and helpful👋👋👋💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Thank you so very much and happy for you too
Excellent video
This is so profound.
Fascinating and amazing
Thank you!! So glad I found you 🙂🙂
Hey..im in Sunny San Diego as well..👍
Don’t Freak out over any of your feelings and emotions. All feelings are OK. The mind and body will follow your lead and quiet down.
God bless you
So hard with chronic fear and anxiety. Even when i want to feel my body automatically sucks it up and supresses it.
Powerful. I actually felt tired after this. Normal?
Yes you could feel tired just with your nervous system shifting over from a sympathetic to parasympathetic state.
Have you done Vipassana? Very similar teaching!
Yes I have that’s where some of this may originate from the old Buddha teachings!
What do you recommend to someone who is consistently in a not so good place who is willing to feel these uncomfortable feelings but is worried about not being able to come out? Any suggestions for something comforting or enjoyable to follow up after dealing with this potentially scary sensations. Thank you
I wonder will this work with lyme symptoms also?
May I ask a question,when you say feel it,feel it to heal it, are we actually trying to give our full attention to the sensations, or simply allowing them without giving the sensations our attention. I feel like practicing giving the sensation my full attention is practicing and cultivating vigilance. So I instead practicing allowing them to express themselves as a sensation and flow and integrate without my participation or giving them my attention or without leaning into feeling those feeling experiencially. Could you please clarify :) Thanks in advance
Yeah that's the question I have for a while now too. I feel that I made progress in being more okay with the sensations, freaking out less, getting a sense that it's not dangerous etc. But I have the tendency to be to much focused on the bodily sensations. And this practice seems to raise the vigilance. What I use is imagining me in space and these sensations are happening in the space, so my focus is more on the space than on the sensations. This allows them to flow, I'm less focused. I think one of my tendencies is, that when I feel some progress, I start to do it, to get rid of the symptoms😊. This is the tricky part of it. When I end up there it's sometimes better to shift the focus. Anyway I love to see an answer from Jim too.
Great video but even with my volume all the way up I can hardly hear you, this happens on a lot of your videos
Yes sorry that’s on my a lot of my old ones
Just did this and eventually felt this charge going through my body. Can all that be interpreted as unexpressed energy?
Yes you open up and what’s in you will flow
Is feel it to heal it the same as somatic tracking? Thank you.
Hey you are on you way, soma is the body, connecting to the body, the body is where memory emotions sensations are. Slowly teaching the brain that's it's safe to feel
Does this not go against indifference , where you should not be giving any attention to symptoms to starve them into extinction ???
Nope. When you try to ignore them they grow. They are there for a reason.
I feel ur sound is too low on speaker, does anyone feel the same
Yes. I have the volume on full and wear earphones, but only manage by reading the subtitles. Sound quality is poor, such a shame as I spend too much energy trying to listen and therefore don't get the full benefit. Hopefully sou d quality is better on more recent audios.
Yes!!!!!
I have had clenching tightness in my jaw since I was abused as a little girl. I don’t know how to release my jaw tightness
Hey Jim,
This might be the one video I do not agree with. I think this should only be used for somatic tracking to feel the physical symptoms. Other than that, you should only be responding to the physical sensations using cortical control or emotional regulation. I think the feel it to heal it makes sense for only when you can feel it as an emotion or if you strongly connect with the pain as an emotion at the time. Let me know what your thoughts on this are.
Hey Matt great comment I agree with you 100%. My thinking has changed a bit from that video when you’re doing somatic track yes practice this but outside of that day to day you do want to be responding that is your number one tool to change the brain patterns. The research has really shown this out. I think you’ve seen this in your own recovery and what we talked about in our sessions together
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You 2 must be smarter than me.
Feel it to heal it sounds fine to me!!
And now also in the class you are teaching us this, Jim!?
Am I missing or misunderstanding something here?
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The main thing is to realize if this is not structural then this is stress(fear or anger) coming out as pain. Since this is stress you let it do whatever it wants without resisting it(trying to not feel it) or reacting(thinking negatively about it). After that is acknowledged, you want to be indifferent to the pain and go to the emotions about what is stressing you out that is causing the pain. I think of it as the same way if you have an extremely quick heart beat from fear. There is no reason to focus on your quick heart beat but you want to realize fear is the cause and calm yourself down. Jim...do you agree?
I have a habit, to be afraid of being unable to control the intensity or perhaps i'll die from it, or that i must have control so i can function appropriately in public etc... Suggestions? Thanks for the video!
Yes this is fear. To get to the other side you have to go through it. You won’t die in fact you will feel better when you feel and acknowledge emotions.
What do I do with the anxiety? I can feel the physical and accept that but I have this constant nagging anxiety that's hanging over me and I'm struggling to shift it. Thanks.
Anxiety is the same as a physical feeling like pain or any other symptom. They are both feelings in the body- so we we treat it the same way- any feeling should be openly felt- when you do that continuously with resisting or reacting to it, the feeling settles. Good luck you can do this!!
@@thepainpt thank you, really appreciate your reply.
@@thepainpt without resisting
Is THIS Vipassana?
Yes very similar my background comes from that. You are teaching your brain not to reactor resist what you feel in your body because it’s not dangerous. You were trying to reduce in fear and reinterpret the sensations as non-threatening
Should i try to talk to the emotion and understand why i am feeling in such way? Or just feel it and thats it? Ive been trying to heal myself coz im beein feeling the pain for such a long time now and im realizing the more i try to change it to a better feeling, i get better for awhile and then it comes backm
Just feel and accept what’s there, what’s happening in you. Don’t judge it it is what it is. The key is your perception of what you feel ie pain , emotions.. When you don’t perceive what’s happening as a problem the nervous system relaxes and you start to feel better
@@thepainpt thank you so much!
Godsent
Instead of it moving in my body, I get a new illness once I heal the first illness. lol
it moves so annoying !
In another video you say to NOT pay attention to the fysical symptoms at all, unless while in somatic tracking exercise...
Confused...
I should be clearer. Relaxing into what you feel is the message. Meaning wet noodle the body into pain and relax into emotions. So first relax and second embrace/surrender to what’s there feeling wise. So you are feeling it to heal it but want to do it while in more of a parasympathetic state (relaxed). This is because many chronic symptoms are created by a fight or flight state
Healing Chronic Pain- The Pain PT lol
@@dualmass What do you mean, lol? I'm new to this so if you disagree or have a criticism could you please let me know?