Stuck in your head

Snailspace
3 min readFeb 6, 2020

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— a channelled message for you —
Busy mind busy mind busy mind. Can’t stop. Can’t sleep, don’t know how to sleep. Head is hurting because you are shying away from your heart so much. Don’t want to feel, so used to thinking and being in your logic about it. Feeling hurts. Feeling means that you can be open and vulnerable and you don’t like doing that because you usually get hurt. Other people hurt you. Can’t be hurt again, don’t feel strong enough.
Mind mind mind.
This isn’t really about your mind.
This is about your perspective and how you choose to see the world. How you choose to see your pain and the things that make you suffer.
Gut is upset too, you are digesting things differently.
Emotions, feelings, sensations in your body. Confused. Unsettled, uneasy. A bit off balance.
But why?
You hate feeling like this.
But this is happening as an energy clearance. It’s leaving your body, rushing around your nervous system before it sparks out somewhere. You might do a really big poo later (just saying).
And when it leaves, you will have less pressure in your brain. Less pain behind your eyes and feel so much less stuck in your head. You know that you can’t live in your head, but you have been trying because feeling is terrifying.
But what do you have to be scared of? Fear?

What is fear?
Really, ask yourself that.

Fear is a reaction in your body caused by a perceived threat.
A threat of what? A threat to you? What is hurting you? How far back does it go?
What are you looking at right now? How are you looking at it?
Is this a conditioned reaction? Is this something that you learnt a long time ago that you never thought to question?

What happens if you step back and simply watch the feelings inside your body?
Can you name them? Do they even have english names? Is this feeling familiar? Is it nice and light, or heavy and uncomfortable?

Now step back again. Stop judging. And stop judging that you are judging. You don’t deserve to be treated like that. No one is watching you, no one is assessing you, no one is holding you up to a standard. No one but you, and you can change that.
Breathe. In, and then out.
Fully inhale, and if you need to cry, let it out.
Crying is good and helpful and cleansing. You tend to hold on to your tears far too often. They get stuck in your throat — you never even let them reach your eyes.
Breathe.
In.
And then out.
All the way out. Notice what is tight and what hurts. Notice where you feel discomfort and resistance.
Close your eyes.
Breathe in.
Notice.
And breathe out.
Breathe out the judgement, breathe out the fear. Breathe out everything that doesn’t belong to you. There is no mental assessment in breathing. You are here as you are and exactly as you need to be.

Keep breathing, noticing your body expand and loosen. Notice the chaos slowly teetering away from your head space. Do you feel lighter? Can you focus your eyes a bit more clearly?

Maybe there is a bit less pressure inside your head, a few less words pressing the urgency button.

I promise that you are ok. Keep breathing, and you will always be ok.

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Snailspace

Chronic illness, spirituality, finding joy and learning how to listen.