Somatic exercising: is it helpful?

People are wondering if those things called somatic exercising are really helpful?  I would have say YES.

It is not a perfect system but it works.

There are some days that it makes dealing with my feelings easier, not easy but easier.

 

What does it really mean?

What it means to me is that I get to feel all those feelings and then make a decision on how to deal with them.  And more importantly what to do with those emotions and feelings.

For instance when I have a kinda flashback, I can feel anything from fear to disgust to rage to sadness to joy that I am not in that situation anymore.

So what to do? Nothing.

What!?! 

It means I make it a point to not let my feelings get in the way of how I feel or what I do or how I act.  

I act in a way that is sometimes not what I feel and it is not that I am ignoring my feelings, it is that I am aware enough to know that my feelings don’t match what is in front of me or in the present moment.  Huh?

I can acknowledge that I have these feelings and that those feelings are real.  But sometimes, in the moment, those feelings that I feel are not appropriate for what is in front of me or what is going on in the present moment.  Sometimes it is a feeling from a past event and has nothing to do with what is in front of me.  I probably look spacey and not concentrating on you but I am here in the present moment. It's just there are other things going on.  I hate to tell you this, but it’s not only about you.

So I feel those feelings, I do my exercises, whichever ones I can deal with.  Because sometimes, the feelings are just TOO big and TOO intense, and I have to slowly release those feelings.  Sometimes it's just a little trickle of feelings because if it’s released too quickly it would be TOO much for me to deal with or process through.

Let me know if you do anything that is considered somatic and how you feel about them?