Fitness Friday Topic: Practice stripping your identity. 🆔 Y..
Added 2021-02-12 16:36:32 +0000 UTCFitness Friday Topic: Practice stripping your identity. 🆔 You might notice that Fitness Friday isn’t all about workouts and making sure you get up and moving, but also to keep your mind sharp and active. 😊 On Therapeutic Thursday, we talk about Vulnerability and connection. How coming together in vulnerability will build a stronger human species because it allows healing through this type of connection. 🪴 So how does loneliness play a role in Vulnerability? We all wear an armor. The armor protects us, so we think, from the outside world. We put up a wall the moment we think we might get hurt. What if this is all a front covering up your vulnerability, so people will see only what you allow them to see. Which is stopping you from crossing the divide from loneliness to connection? 🧐🤨⁉️ The bridge from loneliness to connection is vulnerability. The practice of wearing an armor is very lonely. 🛡We wear our armor and the armors “protects us” but in turn, makes us feel lonely. We never let people in because we’re scared. Keep this in mind, as challenging as the experience of emotions are, there are neither good or bad emotions because they are all difficult. The experience of emotions seem so real, but they are not yours. They are simply existing within you, to show you how that experience should be like, and how we can change and use the emotion to change the situation, for the better. Like a navigation guide. 🗺🧭 Now knowing this, what is so scary about being vulnerable? 🤔What is loneliness? 😞Loneliness is less of an irrational emotion and more like a survival mechanism. Loneliness is like hunger. The Fight, Flight and Freeze response kicks in when we don’t feel a lack of connection. Think of Anxiety here or Trauma. Loneliness is a cry for hunger. A cry for connection. Loneliness is not shameful, it is simply an experience. Let’s all try to become more vulnerable together creating a world where we show our hearts again. ♥️
