Feeling Map

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I was just going about my business a minute ago, when I realised I was feeling a bit moody, perhaps I'd describe it as 'melancholy'. It occurred to me that the feeling of melancholy in that moment seemed to settle mainly in my upper face area, eyes, forehead, maybe cheeks.

As usually happens when I notice 'negative' emotion settling in the body, I let go of it and it subsided.

But I did think it would be very interesting and useful to observe 'where' particular flavours of emotion manifest in the body. Maybe we can draw pictures and stuff, make maps.

If you feel anything from now on, do jot it down and then come back here and report it.

You have a very interesting mind Moog.

I tend to feel sadness as a dark weight in my stomach. It can be quite painful.

Apparently Cancerians have strong links to their stomachs, so this could be why. Or not. I don't know.

I love this, Moog!

Um, don't have much quality to add, other than I can map "horny" pretty well...

Depression sits in my lungs and pectoral muscles, where they attach to the sternum.

Anxiety is in the back of my neck and in my forearms.

Thank you



I'll feel out for sadness and see how it manifests. I don't get super sad much these days though.



You might get a kick out of this... it's a medieval map of the body with the astrological sign associations:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ro-Man.jpg

As for guilt, it usually rests in my chest.

I've had therapists ask me "where" I felt something.

Can you tell, Moog, which one is Virgo?

i'd guess by the ordering...the one in the mid-stomach above the scales

Oh, right.

I guess I got thrown off because the Scorpio looks nothing like a scorpion!

might be wrong, it doesn't actually look very virgoey

He looks like a ground hog there.

This one's a bit classier and clearer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... al_Man.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_astrology

Yeah, I think there is therapeutic benefit in observing, identifying and/or tracking such things.

There's the old 'body scanning' meditations in certain spiritual traditions.

Actually, this idea is an old one I never really got around to sharing properly... I thought it might be of benefit to folks with alexithymia (it seems that autisic folk are often alexithymic). The idea I had was to create little drawing pads with human figure outlines on that you could carry it around in your pocket or handbag and whip them out to draw on. A twinfold meditation/banishment exercise.

I had interested a friend in the idea, and she did fill one out once or twice. I dunno if I can dig them up and post them, if she'd allow it.

That idea was inspired by this image: http://i.imgur.com/E31yP.png

Which is apparently the results of getting 250 people to draw how they feel where emotions occur in the body and then combining them all to get an aggregate image.

ooh.

Just out of curiosity do you how if your therapists have a background in Gestalt therapy, energy medicine, energy psychology, and/or Neuro-linguistic programming. As thoses modalities do focus on where emotions are in the body

Anger, my entire midsection, especially my ribs/chest feels really heavy and humid.....the only way for me to get rid of it is to say something that fixes it or stim.

Happiness is on the top of my head, and I sometimes get chills up my back from being settled in a place.

Annoyance is in my stomach and can turn to anger if not fixed.

Hyperness/excitedness is in my head near my ears and feels like a ping pong ball bouncing around the inside of my head.

Sadness is near my eyebrows.

Tiredness is in my legs.

Confused is in my arms, I have no idea why, but I feel like stimming (rocking my arms in front of my and behind me) with my arms when I am thinking about things.

Disturbed is in a place.

Worriedness is in my throat, and only goes away when I am not worried.

stress = shoulders
dread = heart
ecstasy = spine
fear = stomach